Tim Robinson’s HBO Max Mystery Series Is One of the Strangest Comedies You’ll Watch This Year

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Tim Robinson’s HBO Max Mystery Series Is One of the Strangest Comedies You’ll Watch This Year

The last few years have been great for Tim Robinson fans. I Think You Should Leave, with its easy meme-ability, seems to only grow more popular with age, and this summer saw the release of Robinson’s first starring role in…

Mads Mikkelsen Stars In A Visually Spectacular Treat For Action Fans & Family Audiences Alike [TIFF]

Guillermo Del Toro, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson and Jean-Pierre Jeunet can take a seat. In television writer Bryan Fuller (“Hannibal”), making his feature directorial debut with “Dust Bunny,” we have a similarly accomplished visual stylist displaying compositional mastery that can…

Kiss of the Spider Woman Review

Over two decades ago, Bill Condon wrote the screenplay for Chicago, a musical where the protagonist escapes prison life through song and dance. Now Condon writes and directs Kiss of the Spider Woman, another film that blends incarceration with musical…

The CBS Spin-Off’s Most Unhinged Action-Packed Episode Finally Nails the Show’s Tone

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for NCIS: Tony & Ziva Episode 8.The central espionage storyline in NCIS: Tony & Ziva is back in full swing during Episode 8, "Fire Sale," and it is exactly the adrenaline pump the show…

Erotic Horror Is Long On Innuendo, Short On Climax As It Fails To Deliver On A Promising Premise

Picture this: you splurge on a stunning estate on AirBnB for a romantic weekend with your long-time partner, only for another couple to show up having done the same, on a different app. With the hosts not responding to messages…

Desire, Duty, and Deception Collide

Carmen Emmi’s Plainclothes is an evocative, bruising romantic thriller that takes place in the shadowy underbelly of 1990s New York, where personal identity collides with institutional control. More than just a story about police work, the film is a taut…

Real-Life Couple Justin Long and Kate Bosworth Have Tons of Fun in a Creature Feature That Plays It Too Safe

In 2022, Justin Long and Kate Bosworth teamed up for the horror comedy House of Darkness. A year later, the actors got married and are now parents, so it's fun to see them working together again for another outing in…

Raoul Peck’s Everything Bagel Documentary Puts Too Much In the Author’s Mouth [TIFF]

Everyone has their own George Orwell and tends to think everyone else gets him wrong. As such, making a sprawling quasi-biographical documentary like “Orwell: 2+2=5” is a brave effort bound to exasperate people across the political spectrum. Even so, Raoul…

35 Years Later, Zhang Yimou’s Love Story Remains A Vibrantly Colored Tragedy

"Uncle bought another wife. Her name is Ju Dou. Pretty looking... expensive." So begins our first introduction to Gong Li's titular character, and the film's ethos is introduced. Depending on your outlook, Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou is either a cynical,…

A Surprisingly Hilarious Horror Movie Stuck in a Franchise That’s Completely Out of Ideas

When the first V/H/S film, produced by Bloody Disgusting, came out in 2012, it was a fresh take on horror, combining the anthology and found footage subgenres into realistic, bite-sized terror. The film created some of the most terrifying moments…

Elisabeth Moss and Kate Hudson Face Off in a Sharp Body Horror That Fans of ‘The Substance’ Will Devour

In a year of great cinema, The Substance was by far my favorite movie that 2024 had to offer. Coralie Fargeat's gruesome, fantastical take on women's body image was a wicked blend of Cronenberg and Kubrick, viewed through a very…

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Review: Whimsical But Uneven

Kogonada has always been a director fascinated by memory, connection, and the textures of time. From his meditative Columbus to the sci-fi reflection of After Yang, his films lean toward the quiet, contemplative, and poetic. With A Big Bold Beautiful…

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