Film Review: Another take on the delirious brilliance of ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’
“’Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.’ That’s an Oscar Wilde quote.” And... Read More
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Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: “Ruffled Feathers”
It’s a tenuous time for the ladies of Potomac. Nobody is directly down anybody’s throat, but most of the intertwined relationships feel like a powder... Read More
Fantasia Review: Bryan Bertino is back with ‘The Dark and the Wicked,’ a masterful supernatural horror
“Because you were home” is still a chilling phrase twelve years later. Bryan Bertino burst onto the horror scene with The Strangers, a divisive film... Read More
Film Review: Charlie Kaufman’s ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ describes the indescribable
Categorizing Charlie Kaufman’s new Netflix film I’m Thinking of Ending Things as horror would be a mistake. In fact, labeling Kaufman’s latest to any genre,... Read More
TV Review: ‘The Boys’ finds its momentum in a grittier and deeper second season
What The Boys does to deconstruct the basic tropes of superhero and comic-book formula isn’t exactly bold and new. Watchmen, both the graphic novel and... Read More
Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: “Beyoncé, Sweetie, I’m So Sorry”
When you think about the best, most illustrious Housewives cities (I’m looking at you, New York and Atlanta), they’ve been successful for so long because... Read More
Fantasia Review: ‘The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw’ is a wicked coming-of-age tale
It’s autumn of 1973, but you wouldn’t know it. As a plane flies above, what’s below is a settlement that looks 100 years in the... Read More
Film Review: Christopher Nolan’s time-bending ‘Tenet’ is his most challenging film yet
In the canon of Christopher Nolan films, Tenet is the same thing in reverse, and that’s not a bad thing SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS... Read More
Film Review: Jayro Bustamante’s ‘La Llorona’ (2020), an absorbing examination of an untold history and the politics of horror
The Guatemalan genocide, or the “silent holocaust,” is the setting for director and writer Jayro Bustamante’s new film La Llorona–not to be confused with the... Read More
Real Housewives of Potomac Recap: “Hello, Charisse”
There comes a moment in every new friendship when the glossy facade of perfection and the constant desire to impress fades away, leading to vulnerability... Read More
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