In writer/director Gregory Hatanaka’s One Hour Girlfriend, an isolated man named Richard (Chris Spinelli) contracts with an agency to send a companion to his home for an hour, agreeing to pay $100K for her time. Melina (Sofia Papuashvili) arrives, unaware that…
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The limited series Vladimir is as an unusual hybrid of dark comedy, psychological drama, and academic satire. Adapted from the novel by Julia May Jonas, the eight-episode series follows a middle-aged literature professor whose carefully constructed life begins to fracture…
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As far as adaptations go, I’ve never viewed any source material as sacred, including The Bible. While a faithful adaptation is always welcome, I’m open to a filmmaker leaving their signature on a classic story, especially one that’s been told…
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For a solid decade, starting in the late 2000s with Disney’s charming fairytale comedy “Enchanted” all the way to Denis Villeneuve’s melancholy sci-fi “Arrival,” it was easy to trust Amy Adams, a six-time Academy Award nominee. Then, somewhere around Ron…
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Ever since the Scream franchise helped put him on the map, Mason Gooding has been a great talent to watch. The genre-bending slasher Heart Eyes is still his best non-franchise role yet, but he's also branched outside of horror in…
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Animated fish films have been done. Finding Nemo. Shark Tale. Ponyo. So to hear about another doesn't feel like anything new. However, The Pout-Pout Fish, starring Nick Offerman as a grumpy ocean pout named Mr. Fish, is a little different.…
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Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Rookie Season 8, Episode 10.It's crucial for procedurals to come up with a winning formula that entices viewers to tune in every week. But it's just as important for these types of…
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Walking into Scream 7, I wasn’t sure if this entry would be a new reinvention. I know I wanted tension. I know I wanted that uneasy calm before the snap. And most of all, I wanted to see why Sidney…
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In writer-director-star James Clair’s short drama Eggs, a man struggling to rebuild his life finds his quiet mornings turning into strange conversations with the very eggs he is meant to cook. I mean, they want him to eat them. So…
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As far as one can tell, Murphy (Ethan Hawke), a father, WWI veteran, and avid car mechanic, has never encountered an insurmountable challenge. Living in Eugene, Oregon, in 1933, four years into the Great Depression, Murphy and his young daughter,…
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Brat Summer was a cultural phenomenon that I didn’t understand at all. I knew that it was connected to an album that Charli XCX had released. Whenever I asked what Brat is, though, nobody could seem to give a straight…
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It’s been four years since we last saw Cillian Murphy play Tommy Shelby, but seven have passed in the world of Peaky Blinders, with The Immortal Man taking place in 1940, in the middle of World War II. Tommy’s gone…
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