Writer Aaron Sorkin should stop trying to direct his own scripts. His ticking-clock procedural The Social Reckoning makes so many egregious missteps that watching it to completion can be a chore. But the dazzling Mikey Madison gives one of the best...

Country music superstar Orville Peck isn’t exactly the first name that comes to mind when you think of the razor-claw wielding, masked. martial arts superstar Vega from the Street Fighter video game series, but that’s only because you haven’t been paying...

More than half a century after The Rocky Horror Picture Show first stumbled into theaters, Patricia Quinn is still discovering just how enormous the strange little movie became. Quinn, who originated the role of Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show before bringing...

Much like last year’s smash The Housemaid, Verity is a pulpy, unabashedly soapy erotic throwback to thrillers like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Sleeping with the Enemy. Unfortunately, unlike that jolt of cartoonish, female-driven silliness, filmmaker...

For anyone who treated To Catch a Predator like appointment television, watching Primetime is a surreal experience. Documentarian Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven) makes his narrative feature debut with this disquieting docudrama, and those buying a ticket...

Let’s get this out of the way first: Forgotten Island is an absolute blast. It’s chaotic, funny, and scary in the best way, hitting you emotionally before you even realize it. DreamWorks Animation’s latest film, arriving September 25, is the kind of movie that...

For audiences who first discovered Chris Salvatore nearly two decades ago through the Eating Out films, his latest role may come as something of a shock. Gone is the charming, handsome romantic lead that audiences came to know as Zack. In the apocalyptic Queer...

I love that director and cowriter Zach Cregger used his clout from last year’s surprise, Academy Award–winning hit Weapons to get the keys to the Resident Evil franchise. Why not have some fun? Why not make something that hits hard, moves fast, and isn’t...

When I phoned Seattle community organizer and filmmaker Sophie Amity Debs to chat about the second Seattle Trans Underground Film Festival, known as STUFF, taking place October 15–18 at the Northwest Film Forum, I admittedly didn’t know what to expect. What I...

I have an affinity for Katy Perry. I do admit she’s like the Walmart version of a wannabe pop princess, who showcases a ton of glitz, a dash of glamor, and a lot of cookie-cutter, overcaffeinated theatricality, but I’m not remotely above humming along happily...