Godzilla is back and better than ever as Takashi Yamazaki‘s “Godzilla Minus Zero” is earning rave first reactions after its New York Film Festival press screening. The director’s sequel to 2023’s blockbuster “Godzilla Minus One” wowed journalists with epic thrills and the first R-rated action set pieces in the long-running kaiju franchise. First reactions out
Finnish director Miia Tervo didn’t have to look far for the inspiration for her third feature “You Crazy Thing,” about Aino, a mental health nurse who’s preparing a performance with her patients for a talent competition. “My mother worked in a mental hospital for 37 years. We lived in a small village in Lapland, and
Nick Offerman recently appeared on the “Talk Easy With Sam Fragoso” podcast and blasted Ben Shapiro‘s “rampant homophobia” after seeing a video for the first time of the Daily Wire co-founder and political commenter’s attacking Offerman’s gay role in HBO’s “The Last of Us.” “The entire episode has no zombies, no real threat, and it
While Watches and Wonders every April is undoubtedly the watch world’s main event of the year, Geneva Watch Days—which inauspiciously launched in 2020, the year Covid was declared a pandemic—is now establishing itself as a serious follow-up. Big brands can hold back key releases and gain valuable space to shout about new pieces away from
The Dreamcast era of games was a fever dream of wild, original ideas — Space Channel 5, Seaman, Shenmue, Chu Chu Rocket, Power Stone, Jet Set Radio and more — and perhaps nothing exemplified it better than Crazy Taxi, a game with its pitch in the name. Now, Sega is bringing its zany taxi driving
For “Sacred Creatures” director Frieda Luk, belief can be comforting, ridiculous, exhilarating and hard to explain. “I’m really fascinated by when people believe in something,” she tells Variety. “One person believes in something, and then a group of people, and then it slowly becomes this massive phenomenon. It goes viral.” That fascination drives Luk’s debut
