There’s not much you can do when you’re watching your clothes spin round and around, waiting for the laundry to wash and dry. But when Lily Zhang was seven years old, she spent that laundry time ...

With debate still swirling over the unlikable nature of Marty Supreme’s careless protagonist, Guardian writers have picked their all-time love-to-hate leads ...

From bathtub mishaps to Auschwitz beehives - how accurate is Josh Safdie's 2025 table tennis epic? Join us as we separate fact from fiction in the Marty Reisman biopic! Our countdown includes his ...

Sam Barsanti has written about pop-culture for 10 years, and his work has appeared at The A.V. Club, Primetimer, IGN, and Collider. He has also contributed to the popular daily Hustle newsletter, ...

Odessa A’zion loves L.A. — and L.A. loves her back. The Hollywood progeny has turned acting prodigy, appearing in two high-profile hits back-to-back: Rachel Sennott’s HBO series “I Love LA” and Josh ...

At the end of Marty Supreme, Marty Mauser manages to secure a trip to Japan, but not without some painful and humiliating consequences. Marty thinks he sees the light at the end of the tunnel—until ...

Timothée Chalamet’s new ping pong biopic just has the most successful opening weekend at the box office for A24, and it’s even eclipsed the domestic total of one of the studio’s biggest bombs of the ...

That last one is very much a specialty for filmmaker Josh Safdie, who, until recently, has teamed with his brother Benny Safdie on movies most recently including Good Time and Uncut Gems. His “heroes” ...

The film “Marty Supreme” has grossed $28.3 million through Dec. 28. It’s one of the top grosses for a film with a Sacramento connection. Sac State computer science professor Scott Gordon consulted on ...

Are you wondering, like Alixandra Kupcik, where did all the feel-good movies go? She must have written that story before “Song Sung Blue” came out. Because Hugh Jackman passionately describing the ...

In Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” now in theaters, Timothee Chalamet plays an ambitious young man from New York’s Lower East Side convinced that table tennis is the way forward. The time period is ...