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Film noir is a famously shadowy genre, but one of the great joys of 2018’s A Simple Favour is that it less resembled The Big Sleep or Double Indemnity than a Real Housewives docusoap. From its sunny ...
Beyond Wednesday, the list of Hunter Doohan movies and TV shows showcases his ability to mold himself into the roles that he plays.
Meeting Feig at London’s Ham Yard Hotel, it’s easy to understand how his own sense of personal style might have leached into A Simple Favor: the 62-year-old is dressed to the nines, wearing a crisp ...
When A Simple Favour hit cinemas in 2018, it quickly became a cult classic thanks to its campy twist on a suburban thriller. The film, starring Anna Kendrick as the perky mum blogger Stephanie, and ...
What if everything you believed about your world, your home, your memories, even your relationships, was nothing more than a beautifully designed illusion? Science fiction has long been obsessed with ...
Joe Morgenstern was the movie critic for The Wall Street Journal. He joined the Journal in May 1995.
Much of the novel takes place in 1984, and the author serves up plenty of 1970s/1980s cultural name-checking to anchor us in ...