TV: The Great (Season 3)
Hulu’s superb “anti-historical” comedy The Great continues with another stellar arc in its third season. Gleefully skewering the historical record, …
Film: The Menu
At the risk of overselling it: holy fucking shit, The Menu (2022) is pretty much perfect. It’s not often I get …
TV: The Great (Seasons 1-2)
Hulu’s astonishingly good dark comedy The Great is about (er, sort of) the rise of Catherine the Great and her …
Film: X-Men: Dark Phoenix
It’s perhaps indicative of how low my emotional investment is in the X-Men franchise that I started X-Men: Dark Phoenix …
Film: The Favourite
He may have shifted from Greek to English and from unknown actors to Hollywood stars, but perverse director Yorgos Lanthimos …
Film: Dark Places
An intriguing central mystery can’t elevate Dark Places (2015), a competent Midwest-set chiller that’s diverting but unremarkable. Libby Day (Charlize Theron) …
Film: Mad Max: Fury Road
How to articulate my reaction to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)? Well, on the one hand it’s profoundly stupid. On …
Film: X-Men: Days of Future Past
The Xavier-Magneto bromance continues in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Bryan Singer’s second reboot in the franchise. The first, …
Film: X-Men: First Class
For the most part, X-Men: First Class (2011) leaves the original trilogy in the dust. I enjoyed it quite a …