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Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is a legendary talent with two Oscars, countless awards, and an international reputation almost anyone in show business would envy. He’s best known for his [...]

Writing a mystery isn’t easy. The author must not only tell a compelling story with risks and stakes beyond normal life but also develop characters who are recognizable as human beings and as [...]

Aaron Sorkin, one of Hollywood’s best writers (A FEW GOOD MEN, THE WEST WING) and one of its most underrated directors (MOLLY’S GAME was a criminally overlooked gem), has written and directed a [...]

Today, more often than not, it seems we live in a world of antiheroes. Or at least, the difference between hero and antihero seems blurrier with each passing year. In politics, the American [...]

At least critically, DIGGER may be the year’s most polarizing film. This critic is a bit torn himself. While I enjoyed much of it, particularly Tom Cruise’s no-holds-barred, raucous lead [...]

Psychological thrillers have been hard to come by since the days of Brian DePalma, and too often they’ve been barely psychological or thrilling. VERITY isn’t a great addition to the [...]

Undoubtedly, TO CATCH A PREDATOR was one of the more provocative shows ever to appear on television, concerning the arrests of awful men who tried to arrange meetings with children for sex that [...]

REACHER is one of Amazon Prime’s most successful series, popular with audiences and critics alike. Based on Lee Child’s prolific book series, now 30 novels and counting, the show stars Alan [...]

  (Caution: there are a few mild spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned.) Is Jack Lowden the new James Bond? Of the six supposed finalists for the role, I hope so. But right now, the actor makes [...]

(NOTE: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS.) There is a moment 13 minutes into the season one finale of the new Hulu crime thriller FURIOUS when serial killer Catherine asks FBI agent Alice if she’s [...]