Jared Rasic

By Jared Rasic S ometimes, a movie gets released that's so bad you know someone at the studio lost their job, and the filmmaker will probably end up in director's jail for a few years. When that same studio releases three movies in the same universe that are so insanely, preposterously stupid (while also hemorrhaging money) that they become instantly meme'd to the point of full cultural saturation... then they're in the situation that Sony finds itself in right now. It's pretty hilarious.

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I went into this past weekend fully intending to see “Red One,” that new movie in which The Rock, Chris Evans and a polar bear have to rescue a kidnapped

I went into this past weekend fully intending to see “Red One,” that new movie in which The Rock, Chris Evans and a polar bear have to rescue a kidnapped

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W hile I knew it wouldn't quite have the same cultural cache of " Barbenheimer, " I was still very excited for the same-day release of the Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown" and the Robert Eggers remake of the classic vampire film "Nosferatu." In my mind, the two films wouldn't be quite as disparate as the same-day releases of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" since some of me thinks Timothée Chalamet might be part vampire, so I went in to both searching for interesting connections, both thematic and otherwise.

Not to compare watching movies to some sort of eternal Herculean struggle, but the weirdest thing about writing about cinema for a living is that I will never, ever be

T ell me if you've heard this one before: So, you take the traditional musical biopic like " A Complete Unknown " or "Walk the Line," but instead of casting some popular actor like lil'Timmy Chalamet or Joaq Phoenix to play the subject, you instead have the musician played by a computer-generated monkey. Yeah, me neither. But that's what we have in "Better Man," a musical biopic about the British crooner Robbie Williams. Wait, who?

W e lost the artist David Lynch on Jan. 15, just five days before his 79th birthday. As a writer, director, painter and designer, he spent his entire career finding ways to map the human subconscious, making movies that feel like glimpses of half-remembered dreams, scripts that turn dream logic into tactile reality and paintings that found more layers behind the darkness than we ever knew were there. I'm just as guilty as anyone for overusing words like "genius" or "visionary," so instead of using either word to describe David Lynch, I will just say this: Thank you, David Lynch. You were one of the best to ever do it.