Vengeance

BRUCE R. MILLER There have been so many interpretations of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” it probably was time to give it a more traditional…

It has been a bad year for cholera, the fecally transmitted scourge once depicted as a…

Shah Rukh Khan turns 57 today. And the actor is ready to raise the stakes of the box-office game, with more than ₹1,000 crore riding on his shoulders. Industry insiders feel the coming year…

Actor and self-proclaimed film critic Kamaal R Khan is back on Twitter after his return from jail. He was granted bail a few days ago after he was arrested by the police from the Mumbai…

‘The Office’ star reprises a familiar character type, alongside a memorable performance by Ashton Kutcher, in a mystery-thriller with elements of comedy. ‘The Office’ star reprises a…

Boyd Holbrook (left) as Ty Shaw and B.J. Novak as Ben…

In 2003, not long before he vaulted to fame as Ryan Howard on NBC’s “The Office,” a then-unknown B.J. Novak landed his first major break when Ashton Kutcher cast him on his MTV…

“Vengeance,” the debut feature of writer-director-star B.J. Novak, opens with a scene of acidic social commentary that sets the tone for the smart satire of contemporary media culture that…

A funny story that B.J. Novak likes to tell from the making of his new movie is about the day he thought he was having a stroke. Are you chuckling yet?At the start of 2020, Novak, a writer,…

‘She Will’ Most horror movies — even the “elevated” ones — fit into some recognizable narrative tradition, such as “ghost story” or “slasher.” But it’s hard to categorize writer-director…