Recap The Great British Baking Show kicks out the jams in episode 2 Bring some milk for three challenges involving cookies...er, ah, biscuits.
Reviews Welcome to the Blumhouse: Bingo Hell/Black as Night By: Lisa Laman The first two entries in the newest Welcome to Blumhouse collection are a flawed pair of scary films.
Reviews The Addams Family 2 is frighteningly phoned-in family entertainment By: Lisa Laman The iconic kooky and spooky family hits a new low in big-screen excursions.
Festivals NYFF 2021: The Tragedy of Macbeth is a sparse, elegant take on the Bard By: Jonah Koslofsky Joel Coen steps out on his own & directs a powerhouse cast in an extra-dark version of Shakespeare's tale of ambition & absolute power.
Reviews The Many Saints of Newark brings the family back together By: Michael Frank The prequel to the landmark HBO series fleshes out the capos who came before Tony Soprano.
Recap Ted Lasso “Midnight Train to Royston” Recap: It’s the hope that kills The season finally gets its villain as everyone's good moments are rapidly undercut in Ted Lasso Season 2 Episode 11.
Reviews Doom Patrol Season 3 goes deeper still By: Tim Stevens The strangest superheroes battle the undead, aliens, time travelers, and more on their way to figuring themselves out in Season 3.
Features And to dust we shall return: Midnight Mass, God, death & me Mike Flanagan’s Netflix miniseries may scare some & bore others, but for a few it offers unexpected peace and comfort.
Reviews No Time to Die shakes up the Bond franchise but fails to stir By: Matt Cipolla Even as it makes bold steps toward the future, Daniel Craig's swan song as 007 feels like a frustrating hodgepodge of the films that came before it.
Festivals NYFF2021: Belle: The Dragon and the Freckled Princess fuses spectacle with spirit Belle: The Dragon and the Freckled Princess may try to juggle too much, but its vision deserves to be seen on the big screen.
Festivals Reeling 2021: Mascarpone takes a while to rise but reveals some sweetness in the end By: B.L. Panther Mascarpone, a dramedy from Alessandro Guida and Matteo Pilati, recovers from a monotone to become a warm study of a man rebuilding himself.
Festivals Reeling 2021: Invisible: Gay Women in Southern Music is as enthralling as it is expansive By: B.L. Panther Invisible, T.J. Parsell's documentary about queer women and the country music they make, gives its subjects a space to shine.
Festivals Reeling 2021: The Sixth Reel is a hilarious, warm, cinephiliac comedy By: B.L. Panther With The Sixth Reel Charles Busch writes, directs, and stars in a delightful, frantic, thoughtful picture about the hunt for a lost film.
Recap The Great British Baking Show defies gravity (and expectations) in the season 12 opener By: Ashley Lara The latest crop of bakers make some flaky pastry tarts as the world's comfort-food show starts another season.
Festivals Reeling 2021: Gemmel & Tim preserves the memories of two Black gay men denied justice By: B.L. Panther Michiel Thomas' heartbreaking documentary calls for justice and equity and highlights the racial disparities in how society treats even gay men.
Festivals NYFF 2021: Bergman Island offers scenes from a creatively fractured marriage By: Peter Sobczynski Mia Hansen-Løve's latest wrestles with the creative and romantic frustrations between men and women, with Ingmar Bergman watching mindfully overhead.
Festivals Reeling 2021: The Journey of Monalisa is intimate and winding The Journey of Monalisa, Nicole Costa's documentary about the life of poet, artist, friend, and sex worker Iván Monalisa is insightfully wry.
Festivals Reeling 2021: Being Bebe is an affectionate (if shallow) portrait of a queen By: B.L. Panther Being BeBe is a charming chronicle of Bebe Zahara Benet's life, but its undermined by its tendency to dodge heavier history.
Festivals Reeling 2021: No Straight Lines traces the history of queer comic books By: B.L. Panther Vivian Kleiman's documentary is a playful look at the art form that helped so many queer people find identity, even if only on the page.
Festivals Reeling 2021: At the End of Evin is a powerful Muslim trans story Mehdi and Mohammad Torab-Beigi's drama presents intriguing questions about the trans body and the experience of transition.
Anniversaries Boosting the signal of 2001’s cult space Western musical The American Astronaut Twenty years on, Cory McAbee's singular cult film is nearly as impossible to find as it is to look away from.