Donald Glover’s Amazon Studio project Swarm released all its episodes this week on Amazon Prime. Co-created with Atlanta writer Janine Nabers, Swarm is a horror-thriller series that stars Dominique Fishback as Dre, a young woman obsessed with a pop star named Ni’Jah. Dre’s own life is full of disconnect and abandonment, and she seems to […]
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A grieving man battling an eating disorder attempts to reconnect with his daughter in Darren Aronofsky’s drama. Based on Samuel D Hunter’s play of the same name, The Whale depicts the final week in the life of a morbidly obese man who has developed an eating disorder in the years following his boyfriend’s suicide. Charlie […]
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This corny English-language remake of 2015 Swedish hit, A Man Called Ové, sees Tom Hanks seriously lowering his standards. When the term “feelgood” started being used as a generic descriptor for movies, civilisation as we know it slipped a little bit further towards the abyss. A Man Called Otto is the feelgood movie based on […]
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Although widely cited as a country-fried The Gilmore Girls with a dash of murder, Ginny and Georgia only wishes it were so straightforward. There are moments of real excellence in the teen drama’s sophomore season, out now on Netflix; in particular, Antonia Gentry plays the titular Ginny with a well-balanced fusion of adolescent self-absorption and […]
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Spoilers ahead. As the wise sage Shrek once taught us, “Onions have layers”—a phrase Daniel Craig’s Detective Benoit Blanc repeatedly evokes in Rian Johnson’s rollicking sequel to the 2019 smash-hit Knives Out. And there are indeed layers to the homicide case in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. It’s one that’s called an unorthodox medley […]
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Dawson’s Creek star Katie Holmes has maintained her fame through a few eras of red carpet fashion, but she still knows how to rock an early aughts look like nobody else. Her outfit at this Friday night’s Jingle Ball went viral for being so bad it’s good. Or for giving everyone flashbacks to 2003. Looking […]
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By reputation, Casablanca is the greatest American romance ever put to celluloid. There may be films more avant-garde or technically accomplished, but no film is so compulsively rewatched or intensely adored. US Senator Elizabeth Warren returns to Casablanca with her husband every New Year’s Eve, and Donald Trump even made a (losing) bid to acquire […]
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Manifest season 4 was revived on Netflix after the sci-fi drama was taken off NBC. The final season was split into ten episode sections, and the first half is streaming now. The show, created by Jeff Rake, will finally resolve the fates of the passengers of Flight 828. In the series, the entire flight disappeared […]
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Warning—spoilers for Dead to Me season 2 ahead. Season 2 of Netflix’s Dead to Me, released on May 8, was “finished by the skin of our teeth” in the days before the coronavirus pandemic, showrunner Liz Feldman said in a recent interview. On behalf of Dead to Me fans everywhere, thank you for crossing the […]
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Brendan Fraser gives his all as a morbidly obese man trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter before his death. After causing chaos on the Lido in 2015 with Mother!, Darren Aronofsky returns to Venice with a film no less likely to divide audiences – based on Samuel D. Hunter’s play of the same name, […]
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