By Louis Peitzman To make a Universal Pictures Wolf Man movie, you really only need two things: a werewolf and daddy issues. That goes all the way back to The Wolf Man, the 1941 film that introduced the titular lycanthrope to the Universal monsters lineup. Lon Chaney Jr. starred as Larry Talbot, who reconnects with

By Robert Rubsam Han Kang is a private person. When she won last year’s Nobel Prize for literature, it was widely reported in the South Korean press that she was married to the literary critic Hong Yong-hee. They have actually been divorced for years. She has written very little about herself, and while many characters

By Zoe Guy Robert Pattinson’s last space sci-fi film saw the actor playing a prisoner made to serve his sentence on a shuttle hurtling toward a black hole (among other human-rights offenses, including really messed-up sexual harassment). His next space drama? Mickey 17, a Bong Joon Ho joint based on the novel Mickey7, by Edward

By Rebecca Alter The new season of The White Lotus is coming into view. Not only do we finally have a release date for the show, but the characters at play are coming into view, too. Between trailers, cast interviews, and a little bit of unverified speculation, we can confidently say that we are (pretty)

By Roxana Hadadi Calling a vampire movie Ellen doesn’t have the same pizzazz as Nosferatu. But Robert Eggers’s new version of the vampire classic sets itself apart exactly for its treatment of that character, whom F.W. Murnau’s silent 1922 original defines only as a willing victim in service of her husband. Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen,