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Like many of the global audience for the miniseries NORMAL PEOPLE, I fell hard for Daisy Edgar-Jones in 2020. Her portrayal of Marianne was a revelation, a nuanced and complex portrayal of a [...]

While watching THE STUDIO, the new Hollywood sitcom on AppleTV+, I found much of it amusing despite its satire feeling at least two decades out-of-date. Dramatizing commerce vs. art is hardly a [...]

Catherine Deneuve has been an international treasure and one of cinema’s greatest actresses since worldwide acclaim in 1964’s THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. Her latest film is THE PRESIDENT’S [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hard to believe, but the third season of REACHER is not only equal to the quality of storytelling present in the first two seasons, but this go-round might even be the best one yet as it deepens [...]

In many respects, Osgood Perkins’ new film THE MONKEY is the most moralizing horror movie in some time. The genre has always had its bold way of underlining good v. bad, but the smarter [...]