Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023

Known for her wise-cracking, quick delivery, Natasha Lyonne's newest role in the Peacock series "Poker Face" grants her an opportunity to play a character with a personality trait she's never played before. Lyonne's character, Charlie, likes people.

Charlie's still got zingers, but Lyonne...

Monday, Dec. 26, 2022

To get a sense of Janelle Monáe's powers of transformation, look no further than her Instagram photos of past Halloweens. Monáe doesn't just throw something on. When she turns into the White Rabbit from "Alice in Wonderland" or Diva Plavalaguna from "The Fifth Element," Monáe looks legitimately...

Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022

The business of making original movie sequels is often a thankless job. You can't just do the same thing again, but you also can't be too different either. And many watching will have their guard up from the outset, suspicious that it is ultimately just a shameless cash grab.

In the case...

Sunday, Sep. 11, 2022

Three years after premiering "Knives Out" at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rian Johnson returned to the scene of the crime to debut his much-anticipated whodunit sequel, "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery."

When Johnson introduced the film to the eager Princess of Wales Theatre...

Wednesday, Jun. 29, 2022

"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," writer-director Rian Johnson's follow-up to his whodunit hit "Knives Out," will premiere at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

The Canadian festival announced Wednesday that "Glass Onion" will make its world premiere at the 47th edition...

Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019

Rian Johnson's "Knives Out" unravels not just a good old-fashioned murder mystery but the very fabric of the whodunit, pulling at loose threads until it has intricately, devilishly woven together something new and exceedingly delightful.

For all the detective tales that dot television...

Sunday, Sep. 8, 2019

The whodunit, with its puffy armchairs, missing murder weapons and meandering trail of clues, never exactly went out of favor. But in "Knives Out," writer-director Rian Johnson has revived the genre with an affectionate ode to Agatha Christie that has some contemporary twists of its own....

Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017

A welcome disturbance in the Force, Rian Johnson's "The Last Jedi" is, by wide measure, the trippiest, scrappiest and most rule-breaking "Star Wars" adventure yet.

Not the exercise in nostalgia that was J.J. Abrams' "The Force Awakens," Johnson's Episode VIII takes George Lucas' space...

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