Hoai-Tran Bui
Hoai-Tran Bui is the Entertainment Editor at Inverse. She previously was an editor and film critic at SlashFilm, and her work has appeared in USA Today and The Washington Post. She is a Rotten Tomatoes-certified critic and co-hosts a Doctor Who/Star Trek podcast called Trekking Through Time and Space.
Hoai-Tran likes people, places, and things. She also probably likes being online too much. Her favorite movie vacillates between Spirited Away, Before Sunset, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, though Chungking Express is making its way up there. Hoai-Tran is probably due for a re-evaluation of her favorite movie.
'The Social Reckoning' Doesn’t Reckon With Much Of Anything
Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to The Social Network can’t help but pale in comparison.
With 'Primetime’s Ending, The Show Must Not Go On
Director Lance Oppenheim speaks about why the film ends not with Robert Pattinson’s Chris Hansen, but with Skyler Gisondo’s Decoy Dan.
'Digger' Is An Apocalyptic Satire In Every Meaning Of The Word
Alejandro Inarritu’s meta-comedy riff on Doctor Strangelove isn’t as funny or clever as it thinks it is.
Don’t Let 'Forgotten Island' Get Forgotten In Theaters
The Puss In Boots: The Last Wish team made one of the best animated movies of the year again.
'Primetime' Turns A True-Crime Tragedy Into A Surreal Horror Show
Robert Pattinson is a revelation as a distorted, grotesque interpretation of To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen.
'The People v. Gorilla Grodd' Is “More Intense Than You Would Realize,” Skyler Gisondo Says
The star of the new DCU show teases more beyond the mockumentary premise.
I Saw 'Hope' In 4DX And Almost Died
Fasten your seatbelts. Oh wait, there aren’t any.
Animation Has Become A Computer-Generated Industry. LAIKA Would Rather Do It By Hand.
Everything in LAIKA’s latest fantasy epic, Wildwood, has been painstakingly crafted for the movie. Nothing will be reused.
'Lanterns' Just Wrapped Up Its Big Manhunter Mystery — What Now?
Poorna Jagannathan and Garrett Dillahunt talk about the explosive climax to the Rushville arc.
'Slow Horses' Season 6 Reaches A New Pinnacle For The Show
The Apple TV spy show reaches new levels of maturity and complexity in its sixth season.
What The Heck Is With That Ending To 'Hope'?
Na Hong-jin reveals the original script was “too long and too dense for a single movie.”
'Hope' Director Na Hong-Jin Explains Why The Aliens Look That Way
And why the Cannes cut was just “a halfway mark until the final release version.”
60 Most Important Star Trek Stories Of All Time
From classic episodes and movies to underrated gems, comics, novels, fan fiction, parodies, and beyond. These are our picks for the crucial adventures that made Star Trek, well, Star Trek.
Wait, Who Was Actually A Manhunter? Behind That Shocking 'Lanterns' Reveal
Lanterns star Poorna Jagannathan talks about her shapeshifting character.
Tom King Reveals Why 'Lanterns' Changed John Stewart's Origin Story
Writer Tom King reveals the biggest changes to the origins of John Stewart.
'Coyote vs. Acme' Brings The Live-Action Hybrid Movie To The Next Level
The embattled Looney Tunes movie is more than worth the wait.
'The Dog Stars' Is Yet Another Mournful, Masculine Post-Apocalyptic Thriller
Jacob Elordi brings a soulfulness to Ridley Scott’s somewhat standard post-apocalyptic drama.
'It Ends' Director Talks That Ambiguous Ending
It Ends director Alexander Ullom talks about the ambiguous ending of his cerebral thriller — at least, as much as he can.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa Doesn’t See 'The Samurai and the Prisoner' As A Mystery Movie
“I'm not sure that this film fits specifically into the mystery genre.”
'The Last House' Goes In The Last Direction You Would Expect
A Stephen King-inspired thriller takes a turn for B-movie schlock.
