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Rare is the television series that hits a high-water mark in its seventh season, but that may be true for the newest efforts from the British sci-fi series BLACK MIRROR. It just debuted on [...]

One can imagine the logline for the new thriller DROP… A widowed mother is ordered by a cellphone hacker to kill the man she’s on a first date with at an upscale restaurant and if she doesn’t, [...]

Which head will roll? That seems to be the hook for so many viewers, let alone critics and journalists, of the darkly comic HBO series THE WHITE LOTUS. Created, written, and directed by Mike [...]

Steve Coogan makes a great grump. He’s played many malcontents in his day, from the tactless broadcaster in the TV sitcom I’M ALAN PARTRIDGE to the reluctant caretaker of PHILOMENA to his [...]

Despite the title DEATH OF A UNICORN, it isn’t too long into the new, darkly comic horror film that one realizes that its title is a misnomer. Reports of the title character’s death turn out to [...]

I’m not overstating matters by telling you that the new, four-part Netflix miniseries ADOLESCENCE not only advances the art of filmed storytelling, but it shrewdly indicts bro culture, unchecked [...]

Since Glenn Close’s star turn as Cruella DeVille made 101 DALMATIONS a live action hit in 1996, the Disney company has been obsessed with turning all their animated classics into similar [...]

Who doesn’t love a good spy thriller? From James Bond to Jason Bourne to Jack Ryan, it might be the most venerable type of genre film in show biz these days. Each year it seems more and more [...]

The late, great Bette Davis once said, “Old age ain’t no place for sissies.” THE RULE OF JENNY PEN, the new film from New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft proves that adage long before any [...]

You’ve got to admire Robert Pattinson. Since his star-making turn as Edward in the TWILIGHT film franchise, he’s gone out of his way to take on one challenging role after another. Be it in THE [...]