
Film: The Group
Sidney Lumet’s directorial career is as vast and varied as they come. I’ve enjoyed enough of his films –…
October 2, 2022Sidney Lumet’s directorial career is as vast and varied as they come. I’ve enjoyed enough of his films –…
October 2, 2022Structurally and tonally, Netflix’s new comedy Mo bears a striking resemblance to Hulu’s Ramy – which isn’t surprising, given…
October 2, 2022When the spy genre is on its game, psychologically speaking, it can turn the twists and turns of plot…
September 14, 2022The task of successfully ending any beloved television series must surely be difficult enough. But when you’re Better Call…
September 10, 2022With a premise decidedly not built to last, The Flight Attendant must have generated too much buzz not to…
September 5, 2022In an incredible year of television, it’s impossible not to notice the pattern: the shows that speak to my…
September 3, 2022Amidst rumblings that the era of Peak TV may soon be on its way out (as streaming services scale…
September 1, 2022For All Mankind set a tough act to follow with its breathtaking first season, but even now, growing more…
August 15, 2022Paul Thomas Anderson’s films can be on the perverse side — almost always striking, compelling, and immersive, but often…
August 14, 2022Somewhere in Madame Claude (2021) is an interesting tale of historical intrigue, but it doesn’t quite make it out.…
August 2, 2022Disaster films are all about the spectacle, of course, and if gauged on that score alone, Poseidon (2006) –…
July 31, 2022When we re-upped Paramount Plus recently, the series I was most anxious to resume was Michelle and Robert King’s…
July 19, 2022Back during the Spy 100 Project I rather enjoyed the staid spy film The Man Who Never Was, which…
July 4, 2022David Simon’s We Own This City (2022) is his third crime series to be set in Baltimore, and as…
June 27, 2022