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TV Recap: ‘Succession’ Season Two Episode Ten – “This Is Not For Tears”

Dewey Singleton October 13, 2019

After congressional hearings, scandals, and intrigue about the future of Waystar, the finale of Succession has arrived. Here are four takeaways from an intense finale.... Read More

London Film Festival Review: Rose Glass’ slow-burn horror ‘Saint Maud’ is a potent debut feature

Paddy Mulholland October 9, 2019

As the nights turn longer and the weather turns colder, here’s a happy thought: at least things aren’t as bad for you as they are... Read More

London Film Festival Review: ‘The House of Us’ is an utter delight

Paddy Mulholland October 8, 2019

It’s no wonder kids find us adults so baffling so much of the time. After all, even us curmudgeonly critics once were children, accepting the... Read More

London Film Festival Review: The arresting and experimental ‘Krabi, 2562’

Paddy Mulholland October 7, 2019

An insider’s view of her home country intertwines with an outsider’s view in Krabi, 2562, an accessible experimental work from Anocha Suwichakornpong and Ben Rivers. She brings... Read More

TV Recap: ‘Succession’ Season Two Episode Nine – “D.C.”

Dewey Singleton October 7, 2019

The walls are beginning to close in on Logan Roy and with the prospects of a congressional hearing on the horizon (in regards to that... Read More

Review: Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker’ is dark, gritty and fearless; Phoenix is mesmerizing

Jazz Tangcay October 1, 2019

First things first, put aside all your comic book hero expectations. DC’s Joker is one of the most famous icons, villains of all time. We’ve... Read More

TV Recap: ‘Succession’ Season Two Episode Eight – “Dundee”

Dewey Singleton September 30, 2019

It looks the Roy’s are trying to avoid reality (you know that whole cruise scandal) by going as far away from as possible from home.... Read More

Review: In ‘The Irishman,’ Scorsese’s mobsters age, facing their own mortality

Tomris Laffly September 28, 2019

Legends reunite in Martin Scorsese’s sprawling gangster epic featuring a rousing performance by Al Pacino and a scene-stealing Joe Pesci playing against type An epic... Read More

LFF Review: Alfre Woodard is mesmerizing in ‘Clemency’

Paddy Mulholland September 23, 2019

A stark, sombre drama with barely a second’s worth of levity, Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency is heavy, punishing stuff. It courts the kind of emotional extremes... Read More