Jon Hamm

[8] I very much enjoyed Drew Goddard’s previous work on Cloverfield and The Cabin in the Woods, and I’m a big fan of single-location ensemble stories, so I was excited to see what Goddard had in store with Bad Times at the El Royale. Bad Times features about seven characters — the titular hotel’s front desk boy and six guests — who each have a …

[8] I was not looking forward to Baby Driver, because I haven’t especially cared for any other Edgar Wright movie I’ve ever seen. (Watching Scott Pilgrim in the theatre with a full house was actually one of the most depressing movie-going experiences of my life.) Fortunately, I would never have known Baby Driver is an Edgar Wright movie unless you told me. Because unlike Shaun …

[7] Ben Affleck stars in and directs this drama/thriller about a bank robber who falls in love with the manager at a bank he recently took down while he plans his next heist and evades the FBI. Affleck is a solid director, especially in the film’s heist and chase scenes, but The Town lacks a bit of the tension and thrill found in his earlier films …