The sheep look up at the sky and decide that clouds are their dead. It is the kind of joke that should collapse the moment you explain it, yet somehow improves the longer you sit with it. Wool below, ...

This review contains moderate spoilers. Rory needs $32,450. He has worked out the exact cost of dragging his life back into shape, and even when the robbery promises more, he still wants only that fig...

This review contains spoilers for 3:10 to Yuma (2007). Ben Wade spends much of 3:10 to Yuma in chains, but Russell Crowe never lets him look like a prisoner. He watches every room with the mild amusem...

The frustrating thing about James Gunn’s Superman was how much of it worked. Its best moments gave shape to the film I had been waiting for, and every time they appeared, the weaker choices around the...

F1 is absolute nonsense, and I mean that with something dangerously close to affection. Its story is awful, its rules are optional, its romance is contrived within an inch of its life, and its underst...

In the summer of 1925, J.R.R. Tolkien, then only thirty-three years old and a lecturer at Leeds University, took a significant step in his academic career by applying for the prestigious Rawlinson and...