A fish? A bathtub? That’s not where fish go. Continue reading
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“‘‘The High Note’: Dakota Johnson & Tracee Ellis Ross Have Chemistry, But White Faces Intrude On Black Spaces”
“But she’s got high notes, she’s got high notes / She’s got high apple pie, in the sky notes.” Continue reading
“‘The Painter and the Thief’ Puts Empathy on Canvas”
Sorry gang, I don’t have a pithy, clever, insightful, or even corny intro to this piece, the movie is just too good. Continue reading
“‘The Trip to Greece’ Holds Steve Coogan Accountable Like No Other ‘Trip’ Before”
And if anyone can hold Steve Coogan accountable, it’s career Welshman Rob Brydon. Continue reading
“‘Central Park’: ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Creator Crafts A Funny, Smart Musical Series With A Talented Cast”
Ditch the burgers, gain a park plus tons of musical alums. Seems like a fair trade. Continue reading
“‘How to Build a Girl’ Betrays Its Blueprints”
How to build a girl? Start with a good script. Continue reading
“‘Snowpiercer’ TV Adaptation Confuses Its Class Warfare Ideas With A Murder Mystery”
In today’s edition of “TV shows aren’t movies and movies aren’t TV shows”: TNT’s ‘Snowpiercer.’ Continue reading
“‘Driveways’ Bids Farewell to Brian Dennehy, Giant with a Gentle Heart”
Not Brian Dennehy’s last-last role, but it might be his last great role. We’ll see once his last-last movies come out. Continue reading
“‘Deerskin’ Wears Its Mystery Well
Stop the presses, Quentin Dupieux made a movie that I’m not ambivalent about! Continue reading
“‘Trying’: Starting A Family Isn’t Easy In This Honest, Charming Apple TV+ Series”
The first of two Apple TV+ series dropping this month that I actually like, riding on the strengths of Rafe Spall and Esther Smith. Continue reading
“Is There Anything behind ‘Behind You?'”
A movie with a title this fun shouldn’t turn out this frustratingly amateur. Big wasted opportunity, if you ask me. Continue reading
“You Won’t Forget ‘The Wretched'”
Not a Magic: The Gathering reference or a Nine Inch Nails reference, and mercifully not even a reference to 1980s kids-versus-the-monsters movies. Continue reading
“‘Hollywood’: All The Glitz & Glam Can’t Conceal Flimsy Storytelling”
Oh, Ryan Murphy, you historical revisionist rascal, you. Continue reading
“‘Sorry We Missed You’ Shows the Sorry State Inflicted on Workers Enmeshed in the Gig Economy”
“And the moral of the story is, don’t buy from Amazon,” he said bravely, having already bought from Amazon. Continue reading
“‘What We Do In The Shadows’ Returns In Delightfully Funny Season 2”
Back on FX and staking its claim as pretty much the best horror show you’ll find on television. Continue reading
“‘We Summon the Darkness’ and We Have Fun Doing It”
But who is “we,” and why are we-they summoning any darkness at all? That’s the question. Continue reading
“Share ‘Banana Split’ with a Bestie”
A sweet-natured teen comedy about girlfriends, not a crappy slasher flick about killer robots. Continue reading
“‘Greed’ Is Not Good”
Both as in the selfish desire for wealth or power or material goods, and also the Michael Winterbottom movie. Continue reading
“‘The Virtues’: Shane Meadows Mines His Past For This Intense, Tender Story Of Survival”
Back on the TV beat with what may well end up being one of my most enduring watches of the year, because nothing haunts the mind like child abuse. Continue reading
“‘Vitalina Varela’ Grieves in Shadow”
You’re locked inside, the movies you want to see aren’t getting VOD releases, and you’ve probably watched the ones that have. Maybe try something way off your radar next! Continue reading
