Reviews Dead & Beautiful lives up to both adjectives in its title By: Marshall Estes The new vampire drama is pretty to look at, but lacks any blood in its veins.
Reviews Dickinson makes the case for Emily, war-time poet By: Ashley Lara The final season goes out swinging with the Civil War in full flush and a raft of guest stars.
Columns KinoKultur: A tale of two kitties and diminishing returns with Fritz the Cat The latest KinoKultur offers a tale of two kitties and diminishing returns with Fritz the Cat.
Reviews One Shot puts Scott Adkins through a thrilling real-time wringer By: Justin Harrison The all-star action legend pushes his limits in James Nunn's tense, daring single-shot siege tactical shooter.
Reviews Blade Runner: Black Lotus is intriguing animated sci-fi worthy of the name By: Justin Harrison Directors Shinji Aramaki and Kenji Kamiyama have crafted a compelling mystery built on one of the unexplored parts of Blade Runner's history.
Recap Succession Recap: The Roys’ schemes collide in “The Disruption” By: Ashley Lara This week's Succession sees the Roys' plots entangle with each other.
Recap Pastries add welcome new layers to week six of The Great British Baking Show By: Ashley Lara The Great British Baking Show's sixth week is dedicated to pastries. Chouxnuts, baklava, and terrine pie see the bakers step outside their comfort zones and deliver their share of surprises.
Anniversaries “You Don’t Know What Death Is!”: Halloween II at 40 Halloween II, the 1981 sequel, may be better than many of its successors, but that doesn't make it good.
Reviews Star Trek: Prodigy brings new blood to a familiar franchise By: Andrew Bloom The beloved franchise branches out towards a younger audience in this spirited new Paramount+ series.
Reviews Last Night in Soho is nice to look at but not much else By: Matt Cipolla Edgar Wright's Giallo homage wants to say something about feminism but is too frothy and oversimplified.
Reviews Selena + Chef remains TV’s most chill cooking show in season 3 By: Ashley Lara Selena Gomez continues to charm as her confidence grows in the kitchen, with a little help from celebrity chefs.
Reviews Swagger digs deeper than basketball’s superficial pleasures By: Beau North Swagger, the new AppleTV+ series, shows the risk, support, and effort required to survive as a Black athlete, nevermind realize greater glory.
Reviews Eternals has a bigger canvas, but can’t quite escape the Marvel formula By: Clint Worthington Chloé Zhao's admirable effort to tell an intriguing morality play about the burden of godhood is hampered by all the CG business required of its cinematic universe.
Anniversaries On the Line at 20: still dreadful, but fascinating through a queer lens On the Line, *NSYNC singer Lance Bass' painful Chicago romcom tried to sell a sanitized, straight image of the singer—one that clashed with his true sexuality.
CIFF 2021 CIFF 2021: Spencer, Acts of Love, House of Snails, and More By: B.L. Panther Five of the Chicago International Film Festival's fiction features find truth through craft and performance.
Recap Der erste Deutsch woche offers a new challenge for week five of The Great British Baking Show By: Ashley Lara The Great British Baking Show's fifth episode and first-ever German week requires most of the bakers to step outside their comfort zones.
Recap Succession season 3: episode 2 “Mass in Time of War” recap: Tables turn as war looms By: Ashley Lara Succession's second episode of its third season, "Mass in Time of War," shuffles the players as the Roys prepare to clash.
Columns KinoKultur: Two with Tallulah Bankhead, Maven of Melodrama By: B.L. Panther This week, KinoKultur spotlights Tallulah Bankhead, an icon of Hollywood's early years.
Reviews Invasion is a chilling look at society on the brink of destruction By: Megan Sunday le TV+'s new sci-fi series occasionally relies on well-worn tropes, but is never anything less than gripping and unsettling.
Reviews Wes Anderson offers up another deceptively poignant dollhouse in The French Dispatch By: Clint Worthington The director's latest volume of manicured whimsy will turn off Anderson skeptics, but it's also one of his most vibrant, quotidian efforts to date.
Reviews Locke & Key Season 2 opens up with bigger risks, more interesting choices By: Tim Stevens The Netflix show Locke & Key becomes less faithful to the comic book series's plot, but closer to its tone in Season 2.