Remember A Quiet Place, which created a post-apocalyptic world in which aliens would pop out and kill you if you made a single sound? Bird Box is pretty much the same story, except it’s looking at the creatures from another planet that will end your days on earth. Lay your …
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The men and women, boys and girls crowd into the kitchen of a small house, laughing and teasing and drinking. One of the young workers who plow the fields of a tobacco farm, on the Lazio region estate where these rural laborers live, has just serenaded his true love; the …
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It was a really light week for trailers last week (the main event, i.e. an official full trailer for True Detective‘s Season Three, did not drop until late on Friday) — then, starting last Monday, came the deluge. Prepare to catch up on: a sneak peek at the now-in-theaters, soon-to-be-streaming-on-Netflix …
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In his fifth time hosting Saturday Night Live, Jonah Hill didn’t do anything more or less than he had during his first four outings. That sounds like damning him with faint praise, but there’s a consistency to his shows that is admirable. Like many hosts that appear on the show …
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There’s something resonant about the final season of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown— it’s more sustaining than depressing. It’s been a real emotional journey watching these last episodes, week after week. It’s understandable that Bourdain fans might have worried the new season of the CNN travel show would be too painful …
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During the blues revival and rediscovery of the Sixties, few dominated like Paul Butterfield, the hard-puffing, hard-living harmonica player and band leader. Assertive and experimental Butterfield Blues Band albums like 1966’s East-West, featuring equally manic and inspired guitarist Mike Bloomfield, were essential college-dorm listening. And during the following decade, Butterfield’s …
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A review of “We’re All Beasts,” this week’s The Deuce, coming up just as soon as I’m wearing two left shoes… “I love this fuckin’ town.” -Candy “We’re All Beasts” is as compact as a show with the narrative sprawl of The Deuce can get. We check in on most …
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One star soars; the other crashes and burns. It’s a tale as old as time, flattened and fatigued by constant repetition. So why in hell did Bradley Cooper choose to make his debut as director with the third remake of A Star Is Born? What could he bring to the …
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Moments before the start of Murphy Brown’s return to the world of TV news — which comes late in Murphy Brown‘s return to the world of TV sitcoms (it premieres September 27th on CBS) — Candice Bergen’s eponymous heroine has a rare moment of self-doubt. “What if nobody watches?” she …
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Over the past year, Lena Dunham has been through a lot: an elective hysterectomy following a decade of suffering from endometriosis, and two big breakups — one with longtime boyfriend Jack Antonoff, the other with Jenni Konner, her writing partner on Girls and the new HBO show Camping (October 14th). …
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