Eleanor the Great” is only 98 minutes, but feels longer. Scenes could have been tightened. Anguished dialogue might have been toned down. A few over-the-top emotional scenes might have been subdued to ...

On one of these archipelagoes, a literary scholar named Thomas Metcalf searches through historical archives for a copy of a legendary poem, composed by a 20th-century poet, Francis Blundy, honoring ...

When I read it and I compare it to others, it has more migration; it has more about mental health. It has also more climate ...

There are times when Cloud feels like it will do something surprising or compelling, only to do deliver something more mundane than expected. This Japanese thriller, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, ...

Disney’s multi-billion-dollar empire rests largely in the hands of 11 fairytale princesses. We all know their stories. We all have a favorite. For nearly eight decades, these young royals have ...

When I first met Kristoffer Polaha, it was 2003 and he thought he was going to be one of the biggest stars in the world. I know this not because the then 20-something actor wore the guise of a big ...

The influx of rock music and counterculture in the 1960s signaled a new era for music journalism, and Rolling Stone became the venue for documenting this revolution. As counterculture evolved in San ...

I am not the first, nor will I be the last, to point out Hollywood’s current exhaustive unoriginality. However, the overuse of recognizable brands has taken such a prominent role in entertainment that ...

Chocolate has not always been the common confectionary we experience today. When it first arrived from the Americas into Europe in the 17th century, it was a rare and mysterious substance, thought of ...

When Kurt Cobain put a bullet to his head – 20 years ago, as of this past April – he scrawled a now-infamous lyric from the Neil Young song “Hey Hey, My My” in the suicide note he left behind: “It’s ...

In a summer devoid of horror films, audiences craving a scare could watch Bodies Bodies Bodies. Directed by Dutch filmmaker Halina Reign, the film follows a group of 20-something friends who throw a ...

“I’ve found that with a system and a deep pool of talent, p***y is really the second most abundant commodity on Earth, after water.”­ - Paul Janka, from his 2005 booklet, “Getting Laid In NYC.” ...