‘Sugar’ Review: Colin Farrell is the King of L.A. Noir in New Sour Apple Series
There are ways to pay tribute to cinema and television that came before contemporary media that honors the legacy of these narratives while building onto... Read More
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‘Mary & George’ Review: Julianne Moore is a Machiavellian Mother in the Galitzine Empire
The opening credits of the new STARZ limited series Mary & George closes on Artemisia Gentileschi’s 1613 painting Judith Slaying Holofernes, period appropriate for the... Read More
‘Loot’ Season 2 Review: Maya Rudolph and Company Secure the Bag in Hilarious Sophomore Session
In 2016, the short-lived variety series Maya & Marty flew like a meteor across the television sky: bright, ambitious, packed with talent, and fleeting. Canceled... Read More
RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap S16E12: Bodies Bodies Bodies (BBL Remix)
I’m so sorry but it’s difficult to concentrate on Morphine’s celebratory monologue upon entering the Werkroom when we get these beautiful glimpses of Q’s rage.... Read More
‘Wicked Little Letters’ Review: Foxy Ass Fun That Doesn’t Go Quite Far Enough
Few people in the movies curse quite as effectively as Olivia Colman, and casting her as the demure rival to an out-spoken, potty mouthed neighbor... Read More
‘Late Night with the Devil’ Review: David Dastmalchian is a Fiendish Leading Man in Gory Horror Mock Doc
David Dastmalchian is the very face of the modern character actor. With nearly 100 credits to his name,, it’s inevitable that you’ve seen him in... Read More
‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Review: Bustin’ Feels Terrible in this Joyless, Charmless Non-Corporeal Wasteland
“Yes, it’s true. This man has no dick,” Bill Murray’s Peter Venkman sarcastically says to the Mayor of New York in 1984’s Ghostbusters. It is,... Read More
‘It’s What’s Inside’ Review: A (Suit)Case of Existentialism | SXSW 2024
It has to be assumed that when Kim Kardashian famously said, “no one wants to get up and work anymore,” she was referring to a... Read More
RuPaul’s Drag Race Recap S16E11: Throwing Tantrums and Titties
We return to Drag Race this week after last week’s top two queens battled it out for the win, sending no one home in the... Read More
SXSW 2024 Capsule Reviews of ‘Hacks’ Season 3, ‘Pet Shop Days,’ ‘Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show’ and more
I’ve been on the ground in Austin, Texas, at the SXSW Television and Film Festival for a week now, engorging myself with cinema that offers... Read More
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