TV Review: ‘After Life’ Season 2 finds Ricky Gervais at his best and most vulnerable
Ricky Gervais’s Netflix series, After Life, is very much the product of an artist at his most personal. Gervais’s monster success early in his career... Read More
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TV Rucap: RuPaul’s Drag Race: S12 E8 – “And I Droop”
As Heidi is wiping the lipstick from mirror after sending Brita back home to NYC, Jan is feeling some kind of way after not only... Read More
TV Recap: ‘Devs’ — Season Finale: Episode 8
Though much of the first season of Devs has crawled forward, its finale quickened the pace before bringing life to a screeching halt. As both... Read More
Film Review: Drake Doremus’ ‘Endings, Beginnings’ can’t find its place
There’s a moment in Drake Doremus’ ENDINGS, BEGINNINGS that affected me deeply. Curled on her side, Shailene Woodley’s Daphne is held tight by her on-again-off-again... Read More
TV Recap: Top Chef All-Stars LA Episode 5 “Bring Your Loved One to Work”
Welcome to another recap of “Top Chef: All-Stars L.A.,” or as we’ve begun to refer to it “Nini turning looks week after week.” I’m Sam... Read More
TV Recap: ‘Dispatches from Elsewhere’ Season 1 Episode 8 — “Lee”
As the game “officially” ended in last week’s episode, the eighth installment of Jason Segel’s Dispatches from Elsewhere forced itself to move in a different... Read More
TV Recap: One Day at a Time S4 E4 – “One Halloween at a Time”
his is it! I thought, like the show’s theme song lyrics, as the credits rolled on the fourth episode of the new season of One... Read More
Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi: Episode 2 – ‘LIKE A VIRGIN’ (1984)
Welcome back to Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi! We hope you liked our first episode, where Abdi (author of the Madonna-rich, queer coming of... Read More
Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi: Episode 1 – ‘MADONNA’ (1983)
Welcome to the first in a series of conversations about the one, the only, the queen – Madonna. In this series, I am joined by... Read More
TV Rucap: RuPaul’s Drag Race S12 E7 – The Visage of Madonna
Following Aiden Zhane’s elimination, the queens return to the Werk Room, where Brita must wipe the lipstick message off of the mirror. “You may not... Read More
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