No matter what you think of Sony’s upcoming Emoji Movie, you have to give its screenwriter, Eric Siegel, at least a little credit for figuring out a way to make an actual narrative out of a bunch of static little doodles on your cell phone. Now there’s word of what his next script will entail, and it should be a…
When Richard Russo published Everybody’s Fool last week, he joined the club of authors who waited more than a decade before publishing a sequel. Whether this group took their time creating a rich fantasy world (like J.R.R. Tolkien), checking in with characters to study the passage of time (à la Harper Lee), or for no…
There aren’t enough e’s in “twee” to describe Band Of Robbers, an aggressively cutesy indie comedy that—no joke—takes the characters from Mark Twain’s The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer and Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, ages them into adulthood, transports them to the modern day, and drops them into a caper picture in the…
After years of pouring over books about American road trips, Atlas Obscura writer Richard Kreitner took on an absurd task: choosing a dozen of them, and then tracing their routes.
Francis Ford Coppola, a brilliant and mercurial director responsible for some of the greatest American films of all time, spent the ’70s crafting a string of unimpeachably great films. He then made wine and stuff for a couple of decades, and in 2011 received an honorary Academy Award, the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial…
After becoming a bestselling book and a tepidly received film, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has now spawned a sequel. The Last American Vampire goes beyond Lincoln and his compatriots with the cast expanding to include such historical figures as Rasputin, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Eliot Ness, and what appears to be a …
