Jeremy Strong

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Review: Jeremy Allen White Turns the Nebraska Sessions Into Quiet Lightning

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Painterly illustration of an acoustic guitar and vintage cassette recorder on a wooden table beside a window overlooking a highway at dusk, capturing the Nebraska-era mood of the Springsteen biopic

Most music biopics are greatest-hits packages with the edges sanded off. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is the opposite: a deliberately small, brooding film about the bleakest chapter of Bruce Springsteen’s career, and how a haunted bedroom demo became one of the most beloved albums ever made. It divided critics and underperformed at the box … Read more

‘The Social Reckoning’ Bombs: Sorkin’s Social Network Sequel Opens to Just $5.5M

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Cracked smartphone with a glowing social network of profile nodes and leaked documents — The Social Reckoning box office

Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Reckoning” has bombed at the box office. The $40 million Sony release — a companion piece to the Oscar-winning “The Social Network” — opened to just $5.5 million domestically from 2,606 theaters over the October 9–11 weekend, landing in a distant fifth place. Worldwide, the film has managed only about $9 … Read more