Cha Cha Real Smooth review: A lovestruck, kindhearted gem

Cha Cha Real Smooth is one of the most open-hearted films you’re likely to see this year. To those who were lucky enough to see Shithousethe first film from writer/director/star Cooper Raiff, that won’t come as much of a surprise. Raiff’s feature debut boasted the same vulnerable, proudly unashamed-to-cry attitude that’s present throughout all of…

Nightingale studio lead explains the game’s BioWare roots

Survival crafting games have a habit of coming out of nowhere and being really enjoyable and popular. In 2021, Valheim took the gaming world by storm. This year, V Rising’s vampiric take on the formula is one of 2022’s biggest gaming surprises. Inflexion Games and Tencent’s Level Infinite hope that Nightingale is the next…

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande review: A lackluster two-hander

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is not a film about girl meets boy, but rather, girl hires boy. The new film from director Sophie Hyde and writer Katy Brand depicts several pivotal, turbulent meetings between a middle-aged woman (played by Emma Thompson) and a young, attractive male escort (played by Daryl McCormack). Its structure…

White Elephant’s Vadhir Derbez on Bruce Willis and making music

What happens when an aging mob enforcer sides with his code of ethics over the interests of his employer? That is the premise of White Elephantand the result involves bullets…lots and lots of bullets. Michael Rooker stars as the Gabriel Tancredi, the aforementioned enforcer who saves a police officer (Olga Kurylenko) after a failed assassination…

Wired in-ear monitors: From $80 to $1,500, we compare six models

Do you need a set of $1,500 earbuds? Probably (OK, almost certainly) not, unless you’re a professional musician. But do you want a set of $1,500 earbuds? That’s the real question, and it’s something I decided to try to answer after two companies reached out to me to see if I’d like to review their…