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  • Comedy, Drama, Television

    TV: High Fidelity

    When I put on High Fidelity (2020), I was just looking for something light and casual to fold laundry…

    December 27, 2022
  • Comedy, Film, Mystery

    Film – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

    Rian Johnson’s hit Knives Out was bound to be a tough trick to replicate, but Glass Onion: A Knives…

    December 26, 2022
  • Fiction

    Novel: Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

    Lydia Millet is nothing if not versatile, and Dinosaurs (2022) shows her in my favorite mode: a contemporary setting,…

    December 26, 2022
  • Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Film

    Film: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

    Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) is one of those rare films where…

    December 26, 2022
  • Drama, Science Fiction, Television, Thriller

    TV: Shining Girls

    Based on the novel by Lauren Beukes, Shining Girls is another accomplished effort from Apple, a creepy crime tale…

    December 18, 2022
  • Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Television

    TV: The White Lotus (Season 2)

    Not many shows count as appointment television these days—especially for us card-carrying wait-for-it bingers—but HBO’s The White Lotus is…

    December 18, 2022
  • Fiction, Science Fiction

    Novel: The City Inside by Samit Basu

    Sometimes it’s impossible to turn off your internal editor/writer brain when you’re reading, and while that can be horribly…

    December 17, 2022
  • Life

    So Long, Cairo

    Last week, on Saturday, our beloved Cairo, the loving elder statesman of our cat trio, passed away. He was…

    December 12, 2022
  • Comedy, Drama, Television

    TV: Ramy (Season 3)

    Hulu’s Ramy has always been a serious show, despite its many eccentric, humorous moments. But the series’ long-delayed third…

    December 12, 2022
  • Comedy, Television

    TV: Freaks and Geeks

    Sometimes when you miss the moment, it’s too late to go back. I thought that might be the case…

    December 12, 2022
  • Science Fiction, Spies, Television

    TV: Andor (Season 1)

    I can’t be alone in my complicated relationship with Star Wars; the franchise did, after all, play a huge…

    December 4, 2022
  • Drama, Film, Thriller

    Film: Lou

    Outside of serving as a solid career move for Allison Janney, Lou (2022) is an underwhelming piece of work.…

    November 28, 2022
  • Drama, Film, Science Fiction

    Film: High-Rise

    Somehow, I made it through High-Rise (2015) without knowing it was based on a J.G. Ballard novel—which, in retrospect,…

    November 22, 2022
  • Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Television

    TV: The Good Fight (Season 6)

    Can it be possible we’ve seen the last of Christine Baranski’s bravura turn as complex feminist lawyer Diane Lockhart?…

    November 16, 2022
  • Fiction, Science Fiction

    Novel: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

    For accessible, engaging storytelling, Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranqiuility (2022) is unsurprisingly successful, a quick and effortless…

    November 16, 2022
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