It should be so easy to root for “Hotel Artemis.” An original, star-studded, somewhat sci-fi crime thriller in a summer movie season that’s already bloated with sterile franchise junk, Drew Pearce’s directorial debut is exactly the kind of mid-budget divertissement that cinema needs to survive. In theory, at least. More
David Byrne’s distinctive vision – a winsomely-skewed clarity – is usually most compelling when trained on scary stuff, be it psycho killers, zealous baptism metaphors, warning signs of things to come, or the sudden strangeness of one’s beautiful house and beautiful wife. More
The incandescently vibrating soprano is worn down nearer a burnished alto after a half century of committed music-making and activism. Yet the takeaway from Joan Baez’s latest – following her well-earned 2017 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – is how essential her work remains. More
Justin Timberlake is ready for his big return to the Super Bowl stage 14 years after he and Janet Jackson made headlines for a now-infamous wardrobe malfunction. Wochit
Justin Timberlake has a much different interpretation of “the woods” than we do.
His first, rustic teaser for his fifth studio album, showing the bearded singer clad in flannel and roaming about nature, presented an Americana vision that suggested a folksier direction for Timberlake’s new music. More
The most famous crimes of the ’90s are recent enough that viewers in the key demographic remember certain details vividly, younger viewers won’t feel like they’re wallowing too far in the distant past and enough time has gone by that smart writers are able to gain perspective. More