Amy Nicholson

Five films into the franchise, Terminator: Genisys feels like a VHS cassette that's been rewound and recorded over for 21 years. Director Alan Taylor (of the unmemorable Thor: The Dark World) gives us images — a thumbs-up, an abandoned factory, a liquid-metal cop smashing through the windshield of a car......

Steven Soderbergh's 2012 Magic Mike was a cocktease. The ads tempted audiences with sweaty chests and thrusting crotches, but after Soderbergh lured us into his all-male strip club, he turned on the lights to show us the squalor. His hunks were drugged and morally decayed. The women — the sober......

Batkid Begins reveals the origin of a heartwarming viral video — and our obsession with heroes, super and otherwise Dana Nachman's Batkid Begins marches in with the mini-movie you've already seen. (Unless, as Bruce Wayne suffered in The Dark Knight Rises, you've spent months in a hole.) On a November......

Crystal Moselle's documentary The Wolfpack is a Manhattan fable about fear. Two decades ago, a Hare Krishna, conspiracy theorist and self-described god named Oscar Angulo moved from Peru to a public housing tenement on the Lower East Side with his American bride, Susanne, whom he'd met and wooed on the......

The first time we cry, as a newborn, might be the purest emotion we ever feel. We sob — a raw mess of tears and terror — and a big human rushes to give comfort. Mentally, the connection is made: My feelings trigger a response, be it hugs or milk......

To watch the best basketball in Los Angeles, go south on the 110 to the Staples Center and keep driving. You're headed to King/Drew Magnet High School in Compton, sixteen minutes south of the locker rooms where the Lakers and Clippers are licking their wounds. This is the Drew League,......

The Melissa McCarthy of Spy is different from the one who rose to prominence by shitting in a sink. Bridesmaids scored her an Oscar nomination, and for the ceremony McCarthy donned a glamorous rose gown with a diamond collar and belt. But in the years since, Hollywood continued to see......

When John Cusack was launching his career in the 1980s, Brian Wilson had gone from rock star to living lore — a brilliant Bigfoot. "People would have Brian Wilson encounters," says Cusack, who plays the Beach Boy in Bill Pohlad's new biopic Love & Mercy. "In L.A., people would say,......

The San Andreas Fault stretches 810 miles up the Pacific coast, roughly the length of a dozen Dwayne "The Rock" Johnsons lying end to end. When it rumbles, we'll need all 12 of him to spring into action — although, as Brad Peyton's San Andreas warns, that still won't be......

Watching people stand around a truck can be riveting Twenty years ago this summer, two dozen Texans put their hands on a truck and wound up starring in one of the best documentaries ever made. S.R. Bindler's Hands on a Hard Body is a small story. Ninety-five percent of the......