That’s a compliment, not a demerit, and several films later, with Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections now out in the world, fans have spent hours upon hours with a fictional reality that packages anime aesthetics, Hong Kong cinema’s wire fu action, and cyberpunk’s high-tech lens on low culture into kick-ass stories about rebellion against authority […]
But while the beloved character has been in plenty of merch, books, and movies and television appearances — remember when James Mangold was supposed to do a movie? — The Book of Boba Fett is the first leading role for Fett, and for actor Temuera Morrison, in the Star Wars galaxy. But before we go […]
Okay, maybe writing it out doesn’t convey it, but with Kevin Costner’s deadpan delivery, that final line made me laugh harder than any other John line in this show. It pauses progress on pretty much every story from the premiere, instead checking in everywhere else to deal with some less immediately gripping stories. This seems […]
And Just Like That … reacquaints us with three members of that famous quartet — Cattrall opted out of this ten-episode HBO Max series, so Samantha is only present via references to the fact that she’s currently living in London — as they navigate life in their mid-50s, which apparently involves a lot of confusion […]
But one very important element of Succession — the element that, as a fan, I’m most interested and invested in — hasn’t been much followed up on, so it’s time for that wrong to be made right. If you’re a Succession viewer, you may have noticed by now that Roman, the baby boy of the […]
So while you may be anticipating the new West Side Story — there’s no need to play it cool — we’ve chased down every possible way to see and experience West Side Story in all shapes and forms for you right here. It’s also the only way you can see it, unless you’re patient enough […]
We are now officially halfway through Dexter: New Blood, and Dexter Morgan/Jim Lindsay’s small-town hideout of Iron Lake, New York, is about to get dangerously smaller. In an unlikely sort of cahoots with Molly Park, host of the viral true-crime podcast Merry Fucking Kill, Angela allows her to tag along on a trip to NYC […]
I have a hypothesis that there are two types of Housewives fans: those who would prefer just to check out the fashionz and watch a 30-second sizzle reel of any major developments. Lisa just dropped “Cameron mortgaged his house and gave Mary $300 grand.” Rewind to one month earlier — Lisa and Cameron are at […]
For a movie in which an adult nun’s childhood statuette of the Virgin Mary is carved into a dildo and then used on her, Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta is surprisingly unsurprising. After rising to fame in the Netherlands, the director conquered American cinema by bringing both devil-may-care vigor and a European sense of irony to the […]
He’s also picked up a sidekick he never asked for , and stumbled into a high-society murder mystery that’s sure to be the subject of an excellent Vanity Fair investigation in a few years. When last we saw our Hawkeyes they were duct taped to some kiddie rides in an old abandoned toy superstore where […]
Lorene Scafaria is the director of such films as Hustlers and The Meddler, but she’s also a devoted television fan, and as it happens, her favorite show, maybe of all time, is HBO’s Succession. Despite their animus, Kendall’s siblings Shiv company, which is besieged by would-be sharks and under investigation by the Feds for covering up a string of deaths on […]
It works well as a show about selling real estate in Los Angeles — we get to look at fancy homes, sit in on negotiations, and analyze property values — and according to Jason Oppenheim, one of the co-owners of the Oppenheim Group brokerage, they didn’t anticipate the show focusing so much on their personal […]
In last week’s recap, I mentioned how it looks like Harrison is growing up to be “solid and respectable,” albeit with a bit of an inherited dark streak. Harrison is getting comfortable in his new home of Iron Lake, New York. After befriending Ethan, the awkward outcast of his high school, and saving him from […]
We begin this week right where we left the last — Issa staring across a hospital hallway at Lawrence and his beautiful little family, Condola and Eli. It’s not information she’s owed, given that it’s been more than a year since their breakup and she’s dating someone new herself. Later, during sex with Nathan, Issa […]
We were always going to get a flashback episode eventually, right? So much of what defines Spike, Vicious, and Julia is rooted in a past we’ve heard about only obliquely. Dramatically expanding Vicious and Julia’s arcs isn’t necessarily a good or a bad choice, but it does change something that was purposefully enigmatic into something […]
And once she meets the rest of the Bebop’s crew — despite Whitney’s efforts to manipulate them with a sad story, amateur chiropracty, and a bowl of homemade dumplings — there’s certainly no reason that Spike and Jet should fall for the con she is obviously pulling. From the start, Faye only agrees to help […]
Really? A science fair? Did elementary school not scar us all enough in this department? Someone is trying to assassinate Catherine, but she can’t be bothered because she is holding an international science competition. You might think I am devoting too much recap space to this invention, but it does get selected as Russia’s entry […]
Like British director Michael Apted’s Up documentary series, which has checked in on the lives of a string of subjects at seven-year intervals since the 1960s, the London-born singer lets us in every few years to share what she’s learned about love and loss and creativity and art. Leaving upbeat tunes like “Right As Rain” […]
Allowing another person in — really in — to the deepest, darkest reaches of one’s mind can be a daunting prospect at best. The podcast’s title comes from the fact that Nocera was Herschkopf’s neighbor in the Hamptons during this period, but oddly this fact never comes up in the series. Ferrell has historically been […]
Over the first 60 seconds of visual artist and writer Hannah Black’s 2014 short video My Bodies, a chorus of Black female vocalists — including Beyoncé, Rihanna, Ciara, and Mariah Carey — croon the phrase “My body,” as a montage of images of smiling white men in suits dominate the visual frame. Her body had […]