M Categories TV January 6, 2020 Meet “The New Pope”, Same as “The Young Pope” Paolo Sorrentino's lush, campy papal drama returns for a second season, and throws John Malkovich into the lurid mix.
W Categories Columns Features Movies June 22, 2023 What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in June: Avatar: The Way of Water, Pasolini, The Venture Bros., and More Build your collection with some (or all!) of these titles, coming to stores in June.
W Categories Columns Movies TV March 17, 2023 What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in March: Women Talking, Animated Batman, Dawson’s Creek and More! Because in the world of streaming, nothing lasts forever.
T Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies Reviews March 21, 2022 The Portrait of a Lady sees Jane Campion paint agency, control, and desire Campion followed The Piano with a Henry James adaptation dedicated to the magnificently fraught question of desire or duty.
5 Categories Festivals October 7, 2020 5 Movies We’re Dying to See at Nightstream 5 regional film festivals have joined forces to present an exciting roster of both new & classic horror: here's what we're most excited about.
A Categories Columns Movies September 1, 2020 August DVD Releases: Agnes Varda, Swallow, Gamera and more Criterion compiles a legend's filmography into a single set, Gamera gets a big box, & more in our rundown of August's DVD & Blu-ray releases.
& Categories Columns Features Movies P.S.H. I Love You August 31, 2020 “Synecdoche, New York” is an excruciating, exciting trip to nowhere Charlie Kaufman's minimalist meditation on mortality is as hard to get through as it is oddly rewarding.
N Categories Reviews TV May 26, 2020 Netflix’s “Space Force” struggles to reach satirical orbit The Office's Greg Daniels and Steve Carell reunite for a clunky satire of Trump-era politics.
& Categories Movies May 2, 2020 “Arkansas” is an okay quarantine viewing, but that doesn’t mean it’s good Despite a solid supporting cast, Clark Duke's debut is a small-scale caper with that doesn't have the attention span to ever truly work.
& Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month October 13, 2019 “After Hours”: Different Rules Apply Here Martin Scorsese’s black comedy about one hellish night offers a trapped in amber portrait of 80s New York City. Every month, we at The Spool..
E Categories Movies May 2, 2019 Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile Review: the Dreamiest Serial Killer in All the Land A surprisingly solid performance by Zac Efron is wasted on an uneven drama about why chicks dig Ted Bundy.
S Categories Festivals Movies Sundance 2019 February 1, 2019 Sundance 1/31 Dispatch: Share, Velvet Buzzsaw Day 4 of Sundance shows us a neon-lit social media nightmare in Share, as well as Dan Gilroy's arch, uneven art world critique Velvet Buzzsaw.
& Categories Movies February 1, 2019 “Velvet Buzzsaw” Review: Dan Gilroy Presents a Gallery of Garish Scares High art meets low-grade horror in Dan Gilroy's big, chancey dark satire of the high-priced modern art market.
B Categories Movies December 22, 2018 Bird Box Review: Sandra Bullock Battles An Apocalypse She Can’t See Netflix's dystopian horror has Sandra Bullock fleeing a horror that will kill you if you see it.
N Categories Reviews TV May 28, 2022 Now & Then has style, but its thrills are strictly intermittent Murderous secrets bubble to the surface in a show whose whole cannot match its best parts.
T Categories Recap TV September 17, 2021 Ted Lasso “Beard After Hours” Recap: The wild night is calling Ted Lasso Season 2 Episode 9 takes viewers on one bizarre night with Coach Beard.
