
Film: Spin Me Round
Jeff Baena continues to deploy his talented troupe in his latest film, Spin Me Round (2022), an amusing anti-romcom…
September 11, 2022Jeff Baena continues to deploy his talented troupe in his latest film, Spin Me Round (2022), an amusing anti-romcom…
September 11, 2022Films don’t need to be huge and flashy to be effective, and The Rental (2020) is a slick little…
August 2, 2022It’s a shame we need a movie like Promising Young Woman (2020), and an even greater shame we didn’t…
October 2, 2021A Netflix original film, Horse Girl (2020) is an esoteric piece with an indie look and quirky tone. While…
April 9, 2020When a show as consistently superb as BoJack Horseman nears its conclusion, it’s hard not to worry about the…
March 8, 2020While I think the third season of Glow lacks the earlier years’ clockwork pacing, it continues a track record…
September 15, 2019In retrospect, I shouldn’t be surprised by how much I enjoyed The Little Hours (2017), a ribald medieval comedy…
March 17, 2019The greatness of BoJack Horseman continues into its fifth season, which wrings painful laughs and powerful emotions out of…
October 9, 2018It’s tempting in this age of relentless new television to stop at one season, rather than stick around for…
July 16, 2018A recurring lesson of the new Platinum Age of Television is that the best shows make you care about…
July 29, 2017Life events prevented me from writing up a timely review of this, but allow me to belatedly recommend the…
October 3, 2015My initial reaction upon hearing about The Lego Movie (2014) was that it sounds like Product Placement: The Movie. And it sort…
January 23, 2015Community’s improbable fifth season was perhaps my most anticipated real-time watch of the year. Now that it’s wrapped, I can…
April 18, 2014As much as I adore Alison Brie and Lizzy Caplan, I couldn’t find much to love about Save the…
February 10, 2014After years of peripherally sensing the devoted passion of its cult following, and later its appalled disappointment, I’ve finally…
August 30, 2013