‘Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat’ Review: The Emmy-Nominated Hit Returns as an Hilarious Workplace Comedy [B+]
In 2023, America fell in love with Ronald Gladden, a sweet and laid back guy who answered a summons and wound up the star of... Read More
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‘Becoming Elizabeth’ review: A surprisingly serious consideration of how a queen is made [Grade: B+]
‘Becoming Elizabeth’ review: A surprisingly serious consideration of how a queen is made [Grade: B+]
The announcement of a new show about the Tudors can strike fear into the hearts of historians and Tudors fans alike. Often, when the Tudor... Read More
TV Review: Russell T. Davies’ 80s Aids serial ‘It’s a Sin’ is a pleasure, but not a guilty one
Ah, It’s a Sin. A heady tribute as much as it is a wistful tragedy. Both a celebration of everything to come and a eulogy... Read More
TV Review: ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ is a beautiful and heartbreaking portrayal of loss, grief and mourning
In 2018, we met the Crain family and their frightful, emotional history. Mike Flanagan, the director of both, The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly... Read More
TV Review: ‘Pen15’ season two shows the transformative power of friendship and tweens’ imagination
There’s a brilliant visual gag in Hulu’s middle-school raunchy comedy PEN15. Co-creators and lead actors Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, both in their thirties, play... 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
TV Review: HBO’s brilliant ‘Lovecraft Country’ fights evils real and supernatural in 1950s Jim Crow America
The cosmic horror of H.P. Lovecraft permeates HBO’s sensational new drama starring Jonathan Majors and Jurnee Smollett HBO, alongside Netflix, dominated this year’s Primetime Emmy... Read More
TV Review: Season 2 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’ is less melodramatic but remains unfocused and repetitive
It’s nearly impossible to not think about Doom Patrol while watching The Umbrella Academy, the Netflix original show based on Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s... Read More
TV Review: In season 2, ‘Doom Patrol’ gets bolder, weirder, and sadder
It would be an understatement to say that the first season of Doom Patrol, DC Universe’s superhero show created by Jeremy Carver based on a... Read More
TV Review: ‘Love, Victor’ is a charming and heartfelt, if somewhat flawed, coming out story
Love, Simon, Greg Berlanti’s 2018 gay teen rom-com based on Becky Albertalli’s Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda book, did not by any means break... Read More
‘Wishful Thinking,’ ‘Over Your Dead Body’ Among 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival Juried and Audience Award Winners 
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’