Harry Khachatrian

Themes such as marriage, fidelity, and family are unlikely virtues to feature prominently in a story about contract killers, especially one made today.

Matthew Vaughn, the British filmmaker who burst onto the scene with his hit debut mob thriller Layer Cake in 2004, has since carved out a niche for himself in the realm of flashy, lighthearted action flicks. Known for his visually striking and over-the-top fight sequences synced to music, Vaughn’s films such as Kick-Ass and Kingsman artfully balance graphic violence with

You can generally gauge the success of a musical by how long after the credits roll its melodies and lyrics continue to linger in your head. The 2024 musical remake of Mean Girls, despite boasting palpable vocal prowess among its cast, fails to evoke any such memorable earworms. Restructuring the 2004 coming-of-age comedy’s main plot points into cheesy and

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From the sprawling array of films to come out in 2023, none were as surprisingly memorable or endearing as director Alexander Payne’s comedy-drama The Holdovers.Set against the somber backdrop of a New England boarding school during the Christmas break of 1970, the film draws inspiration from such coming-of-age classics as The Dead Poet’s Society and

Martin Scorsese is widely recognized for crafting films centered on gritty criminal underworlds and the lavish lifestyles of their gangster overlords, from Mean Streets (1973) to The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and, most recently, The Irishman (2019). However, Scorsese’s latest crime epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, veers away from many of the venerable

A scene midway through Dumb Money, the new movie about the 2020 GameStop stock saga, features Keith Gill, more infamously known as Roaring Kitty, lamenting, “The whole idea of the stock market was if you were smart, and maybe with a little luck, you could make your fortune.” This is but one of the many

Through crime classics such as Goodfellas or The Godfather, we’ve often come to romanticize mobsters for their wise guy, wanton indifference to the law, often overlooking the less glamorous ramifications of their escapades. Director Antoine Fuqua’s finale to the Equalizer trilogy, however, offers no such glamour, instead labeling their debauchery as a cancer.Reprising his role as Robert

Singer-songwriter Oliver Anthony became an overnight country-folk superstar earlier this month when his independently released single, “Rich Men North of Richmond,” skyrocketed to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.With its sparse arrangement, featuring only Anthony’s raspy vocals and twangy Bobtail guitar, and such timely and poignant lyrics as, “It’s a damn shame / What

There’s a certain allure to surprising celebrity news that sends us flocking to social media, ready either to pile onto the criticism or indignantly defend our favorite stars caught in their latest scandals. Take, for instance, the meteoric rise and the current unfurling of Lizzo. Bursting onto the mainstream pop scene with her third studio