The first thing I liked about this movie was its title. The 1953 ascent of Everest has often been told as Edmund Hillary’s story, with the Sherpa who reached the summit beside him mentioned as the other guy in the photo. This film is called Tenzing. Not “Everest,” not “The …
This review of season 4 of Ted Lasso will include spoilers. Please be advised! As news of season 4 of Ted Lasso began to take shape, people had questions. Jason Sudeikis had said that he only envisioned three seasons for the series, and despite the clamoring from the fans, he …
The action will be great, and I’ll forgive the story. That’s been the deal with Sam Hargrave (Extraction) since his directing debut. Back in 2020, I stopped the first Extraction mid-viewing just to go back and watch its oner again. The 21-minute oner in Extraction 2 is still something I’d …
It’s been a while since such a well-mounted cast failed to meet the moment in an ensemble comedy quite like Jonah Hill’s Outcome, the actor’s sophomore outing into fiction filmmaking after his breakout directorial debut, Mid90s. That movie was (very) well received. This one will get the polar opposite reaction. …
Sometimes when you get good at keeping secrets, you can start to lose track of what the truth even is. In her new series Imperfect Women, Annie Weisman examines the story of three best friends confronting the secrets they kept that may have led to the murder of one of …
Even if it sounds ironic, nepotism might be a burden. It is one of the topics of grief shown in Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost. Arguably one of the most popular names in mainstream comedy in the last three decades, Ben Stiller comes from a royal family in comedy. …
In the early 1950s, the legendary French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma popularized a new manner of analyzing cinema. Hence, the politique des auteurs (auteur theory) became their central thesis, in which film criticism analyzed films through the lens of the whole and the filmmaker’s style. Thus, in a subsequent consequence …
I was 40 before I got my first tattoo. Since then, I have added to my collection, but I have avoided many pop culture references because I have seen too many of my favorites fall over the years. But the one that I have is of the Vince Gilligan show, Breaking …
Author and writer Dennis Lehane has carved a niche in the crime and thriller genres. His credits include novels such as Live by Night and Gone Baby Gone, as well as screenplays like 2014’s underrated film The Drop. Lehane has even dipped his toe into television work with series such …
Upon the news that Murderbot has been renewed for a second series, we can all breathe more easily. This first series is the demonstration of how the Pinocchio became a real boy, or in this case, a genderless sentient construct that, without its armor, looks like an augmented human. But …
Finally we have reached the episode named after the novel from which the TV show Murderbot is adapted, although it’s only the penultimate one. The ways in which the differing plot strands twist together is incredibly impressive, not least in the amount of damage Murderbot (Alexander Skarsgård) suffers: the face …
Brothers Chris and Paul Weitz are maintaining the breakneck pacing of this show with what seems like the greatest of ease. As the mysterious enemy finally becomes clearer, there is at least enough respite to allow Bharadwaj (Tamara Podemski) to operate on Gurathin (David Dastmalchian), and for the throuple subplot …
Another action-packed episode, and packed with more than one kind of action, if you know what I mean. It’s Arada the biologist (Tattiawna Jones) who realises quicker than the others what the two creatures are doing on top of the hopper, which has glass panels in its roof. Murderbot (Alexander …
This mid-series run of Murderbot is some of the tightest episodes of television in a while. This episode also contains a great deal of humour, backrubs, some awfully graphic surgery, and then some even more graphic violence. The tonal shifts flow more naturally than that description sounds, which is especially …
Before the review begins: an apology. I originally misgendered Murderbot in my reviews of the previous four episodes, which have now been corrected. A publicist got in touch to inform us that Murderbot has no gender; I should not have presumed the gender of the human actor playing it had …
One of the neatest tricks Carême has pulled over the course of this fine first season is erasing Napoleon. He is there, when he needs to be, but he never speaks and the face of the actor playing him is rarely shown. The focus on the power games swirling around …
After all the machinations of the previous episode it’s no wonder this course of Carême chooses a different focus for all its power struggles. The episode takes place entirely within Talleyrand’s (Jérémie Renier) estate and revolves around Hortense (Lily Taieb) unexpectedly going into labour. For those of you not keeping …
Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon has been one of the most fascinating workshops for the medium since their 2009 feature debut, The Secret of Kells. Wolfwalkers by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart is only their fifth feature since Kells. Nearly every work of theirs went on to get an Academy …
In Deaf President Now!, Nyle DiMarco and Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim join forces to tell a milestone in the education of the deaf community. In 1988, at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C, the first and only deaf people’s university in the world, students gathered to protest. The board of …
At the outset, F1 was already a hard film to review. Similar to Ezra Miller, the longtime actor Brad Pitt’s personal life has become a conflicting topic, especially since his family life hit the news. At the same time, F1 director Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick is one of the …