“The boy was murdered, I think, by the people who were meant to love him.” Wes Anderson is talking about a surreal moment that occurs early in his latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, in which the ...

Quicksand has been a silent, gloopy threat in movies for decades now. It claims a desert victim in Lawrence of Arabia, it almost sucks Alan (Robin Williams) down through the floorboards in Jumanji, ...