Jim Vorel

Jennifer Lopez Goes Full Musical in a New Kiss of the Spider Woman Kiss of the Spider Woman, an Oscar favorite 40 years ago, returns to the big screen as a musical starring a locked-in Jennifer Lopez.

Jennifer Lopez goes full musical in a new Kiss of the Spider Woman. #JenniferLopez #DiegoLuna www.pastemagazine.com/movies/bill-...

Harris Dickinson’s Homelessness Drama Urchin Is Powerfully Honest British Social Realism Frank Dillane's nuanced portrayal of a backsliding addict captures a true slice of modern London in Harris Dickinson's debut Urchin.

Harris Dickinson delivers powerful social realism drama in the searing, raw Urchin, with Frank Dillane's standout performance leading the way. #HarrisDickinson #Urchin #London www.pastemagazine.com/movies/urchi...

10 of the Best Horror Movies for Date Night Does your significant other like horror movies? Here are 10 perfect choices for a horror movie date night on the couch.

10 of the best #horrormovies for #datenight #halloween www.pastemagazine.com/movies/horro...

Somewhere Between Freedom and Forgiveness, Find Andrew Durham’s Fairyland Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

New official trailer: Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother explores family, distance, and time. #JimJarmusch #NYFF www.pastemagazine.com/movies/andre...

Kathryn Bigelow Ponders America At DEFCON 1 In A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow's anxious thriller A House of Dynamite provides apocalyptic dread, but little in the way of genuine thrills or pathos.

Kathryn Bigelow ponders America at DEFCON 1 in A House of Dynamite. #AHouseofDynamite #KathrynBigelow #netflix www.pastemagazine.com/movies/a-hou...

Good lord, man. I’m just finding this series now. What compelled you to write 31 essays on one movie?

John Candy: I Like Me Documents a Great Guy, and a Poor Documentary Subject When everyone is so eager to say the same, nice things about the performer of John Candy: I Like Me, a deeper level is hard to uncover.

John Candy: I Like Me wistfully remembers a great guy, and a poor documentary subject. #JohnCandy #JohnCandyILikeMe #PrimeVideo www.pastemagazine.com/article/john...

There's something truly wonderful about using a service like Kanopy/your library card to access film content as deeply tawdry as "CHOLO ZOMBIES." It's like using some ancient library full of beautiful manuscripts to read Danielle Steel romance novels. #horrormovies #halloween

Something Has Been Corrupted in the Copied Code of Tron: Ares Tron: Ares feels inescapably like something pieced together from its previous installments, with just enough additions to be technically new.

Something has been corrupted in the copied code of Tron: Ares, a visually engaging film without a thing to say. #TronAres #JaredLeto #JeffBridges www.pastemagazine.com/movies/tron-...

Alex Winter’s Freaked Is the Most Handsomely Demented ‘90s FX Showcase You’ve Never Seen Alex Winter's gross-out 1993 dark comedy Freaked is a monument to both bad taste and so many lost cinematic arts.

Alex Winter’s 'Freaked' is the most handsomely demented 1990s practical FX showcase you’ve never seen. #AlexWinter #freaked #Halloween #AlamoDrafthouse @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social www.pastemagazine.com/movies/freak...

Colin Farrell Is a Desperate Gambler in First Trailer for Netflix's Ballad of a Small Player Intensely colorful and dripping with disorientation and urgency, the first footage of Ballad of a Small Player sets its hook quickly.

Colin Farrell is a desperate gambler in first trailer for Netflix's Ballad of a Small Player from director Edward Berger. #ColinFarrell #Netflix www.pastemagazine.com/movies/colin...

Palate: Big caramel and huge savory rye notes, verging into tobacco herbaceousness. Black and white pepper, greener rye notes, sweet barrel char, cinnamon and lingering chiles with just a little bit of mesquite smoke. Sturdy proof and lingering spice. #whiskey

Buzzard’s Roost Cigar Blend Bourbon review:

Nose: Caramel chews, molasses cookie and intense wood spice. Cinnamon combo of cinnamon and vanilla icing, and a deeply toasted sugar. Strong woodiness that hits both toast and also sawdust-like note. Cedar cigar box and baking spice.

NYFF: In Father Mother Sister Brother, Jarmusch Equates Subtlety with Stillness Jarmusch’s precision is as sharp as ever in this empathetic triptych, but the life inside it feels diagrammed rather than lived.

NYFF: In Father Mother Sister Brother, Jim Jarmusch equates subtlety with stillness. #JimJarmusch #NYFF www.pastemagazine.com/movies/jim-j...

V/H/S/Halloween Is Barely “Found Footage,” But It Is Plenty of Fun Equal parts gross and hilarious, V/H/S/Halloween's segments increasingly leave the idea of "found footage" behind, and that's okay.

V/H/S/Halloween barely qualifies as “found footage” horror, but that hardly matters when most of it is so much fun. www.pastemagazine.com/movies/horro... #horrormovies #vhshalloween

Horror Heartbreaker Good Boy Is Much More than Its Doggy Gimmick Good Boy is not only a dog-starring horror film; it's one of the year's scariest and most emotionally resonant films as well.

Horror heartbreaker Good Boy is much more than its doggy gimmick--it's one of the year's scariest and most emotionally resonant films. #horrormovies #GoodBoy #halloween www.pastemagazine.com/movies/good-...

Bourbon Brands, Carrie Nation, and Whiskey Industry Sexism How a $250 million Kentucky whiskey distillery that based its marketing around mocking historic activist Carrie Nation collapsed in 2025.

Bourbon brands, Carrie Nation, and whiskey industry sexism -- How a $250 million distillery based its marketing around mocking a historical woman and collapsed in 2025. #whiskey #bourbon #CarrieNation #GarrardCounty www.pastemagazine.com/drink/alcoho...

NYFF: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Isn't So Boss Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

NYFF: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere isn't so boss, setting Jeremy Allen White adrift in modern musical biopic tropes. #BruceSpringsteen #JeremyAllenWhite www.pastemagazine.com/movies/scott...

Nouvelle Vague Falters as a Filmic Facsimile of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless Richard Linklater can imitate some visual stylings of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, but Nouvelle Vague misses its air of experimentation.

Nouvelle Vague falters as a filmic facsimile of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, lacking the experimentation you would expect from a proper tribute. #RichardLinklater #ZoeyDeutch www.pastemagazine.com/movies/richa...

Play Dirty Is an Overstuffed Action-Comedy Caper Saved by Classic Shane Black Cheese A frenzied combination of action and criminal caper, Shane Black's Play Dirty is chaotic but funny enough to get by in style.

Play Dirty is an overstuffed Prime Video action-comedy caper saved by classic Shane Black cheese and good humor. #PlayDirty #PrimeVideo #ShaneBlack #MarkWahlberg www.pastemagazine.com/movies/shane...

Palate: Thick and mouth coating. Sweet caramel and custard, vanilla glaze, dried apples and sweetened dried cherry. Sweet roastiness and tobacco, with lingering rye spice. Very well integrated, relatively gentle proof. Lasting finish of leather and root beer spice. #whiskey

Wild Turkey Master’s Keep Beacon Bourbon review:

Nose: Heavy, rich caramel sweetness, paired with underlying herbal rye and tobacco notes. Dark vanilla, flan, cigar wrapper. Mildly funky rickhouse oak. Baked apples? Over time in glass, showing more roast and old, dusty leather.

NYFF: George Clooney Looks Back at a Fake Career in Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly In Noah Baumbach latest, George Clooney plays Jay Kelly, an actor looking back. Is it the character or movie who feels incomplete?

NYFF: George Clooney looks back at a fake career in Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly. #JayKelly #GeorgeClooney #NoahBaumbach www.pastemagazine.com/movies/noah-...

Bone Lake Is a Hot and Heavy Throwback Thriller Bone Lake isn't as sexy as it would like to be, but the vintage erotic thriller is wickedly entertaining and performed nonetheless.

Bone Lake is a hot and heavy throwback thriller, not as sexy as it tries to be, but nearly as entertaining. #BoneLake #horrormovies www.pastemagazine.com/movies/bone-...

NYFF: Daniel Day-Lewis Returns with Family On His Mind in Anemone Daniel Day-Lewis and his son Ronan bring plenty of artistic integrity to Anemone, but there's some self-indulgence here, too.

NYFF: Daniel Day-Lewis returns with family on his mind in Anemone. #DanielDayLewis #NYFF #Anemone www.pastemagazine.com/movies/danie...

Parenting And Resistance Are Just One Battle After Another (And Another And Another) Both revolution and fatherhood present Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another with crackling tension.

Parenting and resistance are just One Battle After Another (and another and another) in Paul Thomas Anderson's latest gem of a film. #OneBattleAfterAnother #PTA #LeonardoDiCaprio www.pastemagazine.com/article/one-...

Palate: Honeyed sweetness, /w baked apple, cinnamon, cardamom, and tons of oak. Freshly baked oak staves, with honey, vanilla cream and tons of baking spice. Complex brown spice/wood derived sweet spice, with mild tannin and a little caramelized nuttiness. Ethanol quite gentle. #whiskey #bourbon

Michter’s Sour Mash Whiskey Toasted Barrel Finish review:

Nose: Toasted marshmallow, fragrant cinnamon, honeycomb cereal, toasted oak, complex and warm oaky spice. Can’t miss the toasted barrel. It dominates a bit, but there’s also baked apple fruitiness and a hint of cocoa.

Kelly Reichard Pulls Off Another Quiet Heist with The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt follows a low-key but still dangerous art heist in The Mastermind, the latest in her terrific run of movies about getting by.

Kelly Reichard pulls off another quiet heist with The Mastermind. #NYFF #TheMastermind #KellyReichard #JoshOconnor www.pastemagazine.com/movies/kelly...

The Strangers: Chapter 2 Is Actually Pretty Good for an Hour The Strangers: Chapter 2 isn't less pointless than its predecessor. But for two-thirds of its running time, it's better-crafted fun. Really!

The Strangers: Chapter 2 is actually pretty good for an hour. #TheStrangers #TheStrangersChapter2 #horrormovies www.pastemagazine.com/movies/renny...