
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, 2022Not 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, 2022Written in the wake of the Cold War’s end, at a time when the spy novel’s relevance was still…
June 9, 2016Although it scores points for ambition and scope, The Company (2007) didn’t really connect with me, a three-part miniseries…
April 8, 2012Filled with beautiful international scenery, Hanna (2011) is a stylish and compelling spy film, carried by the charismatic lead…
October 31, 2011It’s not easy to make codebreaking visually compelling, but Enigma (2001) pulls it off nicely. Written by Tom Stoppard…
September 27, 2010This morning I made my first visit to a Laemmle independent theater in far too long. Imagine a two-hour…
August 2, 2009