The Next Picture Show

Padraic McKinley’s The Weight isn’t a remake of The Wages of Fear, though it feels deeply indebted to the H.G. Clouzot classic in its thrilling depiction of a group of outlaws on a near-impossible mission...

Alexander Ullom's It Ends is a daring little piece of microbudget drama about four friends at transition points in their lives, who find themselves in a place where life and death no longer hold any meaning. Whether...

Alexander Ullom’s feature debut,  It Ends , has been billed as a horror movie, but it’s more of an existential exercise wrapped inside a genre premise. That same description could be applied to&nbsp...

The Platt family is barely surviving, and that’s before their neighborhood is inexplicably dropped millions of years into the past and overrun by hungry dinosaurs.  The End of Oak Street  isn’t...

David Robert Mitchell’s  The End of Oak Street  drops an ordinary family into extraordinary circumstances, forcing them to focus all their energy on surviving— and maybe, just maybe, learning to...

Matt Johnson’s new biopic  Tony  sidesteps the infamous  Walk Hard  trap by narrowing its scope to a single summer that would end up shaping the rest of Anthony Bourdain’s life, but not...

Anthony Bourdain, whose early experience working in a restaurant kitchen is chronicled in the new biopic  Tony,  once singled out  Ratatouille  as Hollywood’s best depiction of working in a...

Christopher Nolan’s  The Odyssey  approaches Homer’s epic from a much more literal vantage point than  O Brother Where Art Thou,  but that doesn’t mean it’s a dutiful...

Considering  The Odyssey  is one of the most famous and influential stories of all time, there had been relatively few attempts to directly translate Homer’s epic poem to the big screen until Christopher...

The new  Supergirl  isn’t an outright adaptation of the comic-book miniseries  Woman of Tomorrow , but it retains enough of its shape that it evokes that comic’s own source of...

Forty-four years after his science-fiction classic about the deep connection between a 10-year-old human boy and an alien visitor stranded on earth, Steven Spielberg is once again considering humanity’s capacity...

Disclosure Day  is not Steven Spielberg’s first film about the confirmation of alien life, nor is it the first such Spielberg film we’ve discussed on this podcast — that would be  Close...

Backrooms ’ journey to the big screen — from anonymous 4chan post to viral creepypasta to mega-popular YouTube series to A24-backed box-office smash — is as unique and unexpected as the film itself...

20-year-old Kane Parsons is now the youngest director to ever hit No. 1 at the box office thanks to his A24-backed horror film  Backrooms,  which made back its budget several times over in the first week of...

The Mandalorian and Grogu  plays like a few stitched-together episodes of  The Mandalorian , which makes it a particularly apt pairing with the 1980  Lone Wolf and Cub  assemblage  Shogun...