Once again, we’ve arrived at that most wonderful time of the year. Which means, as all around we begin to see candy canes, silver lanes,…
In the universe of Beacon 23, humankind has perfected intergalactic travel, effectively allowing people to live in space. The televisual adaptation of Silo author Hugh…
Taking inspiration from the Mary Kay Letourneau-Vili Fualaau scandal that roiled the tabloids for much of the ’90s, Todd Haynes’ May December is, at its most basic…
Seemingly the only point of Albert Brooks: Defending My Life is to state in plain English that Albert Brooks is a great comedian and a…
Last year, Nathan Fielder’s self-named character in his semi-fictional show The Rehearsal built an ever-expanding fake world around himself as insulation from anything outside of…
In one of the many gnomic remarks of his Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein writes: “When ‘I raise my arm’, my arm rises. And now a problem…
The age-old question of how to know if your romantic partner is “the one” is a confrontation that every couple has encountered at some point.…
The oft-told story of the French-German dance-pop duo known as Milli Vanilli, comprising Fabrice Morvan and Rob Pilatus, is a scandalous tale of exposed fraud…
Another week, another disposable Netflix feature that barely registers even as you’re watching it, seemingly designed to evaporate upon release (all the better to make…
The suburban opioid crisis, like the war on terror and the ‘08 financial collapse before it, finally gets the smug “explainer video” treatment. After faintly…
The main question asked in Errol Morris’ newest film — a presentation of late author John le Carré’s final interview — is not posed by…
The most revealing — in more ways than one — moment in Nyad, a biopic of the sixty-something marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, is a prolonged…
It’s easy to synopsize the minimal plot of the bizarre new South Korean whatsit The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra — fungus growing on a mattress becomes…
The fifth in filmmaker Mike Flanagan’s run of miniseries made for Netflix, The Fall of the House of Usher finds him returning to adaptation once…
Haitian director Raoul Peck has made some formally daring feature films, but his documentary work has tended to be a bit more subdued, preferring to…
Trapped in their luxurious mansion, a previously well-to-do family in the Philippines suffers through the tail-end of World War II, constantly being harassed by the…
There exists not a single person on the planet who read Stephen King’s 1983 novel Pet Sematary or watched either the 1989 film adaptation or 2019…
The new Blumhouse/Amazon co-production Totally Killer accrued a bit of social media infamy this past summer upon the release of its first trailer. Horror fans…
The inspiration for Maggie Betts’ The Burial was an actual court case that took place in Mississippi in 1995, in which Jeremiah O’Keefe, the former…