S Categories Movies Reviews December 15, 2021 Swan Song questions the ethics of deception to spare our loved ones pain Mahershala Ali reaffirms his status as America’s best working actor in Benjamin Cleary’s quietly moving sci-fi drama about a dying man considering replacement by a clone.
& Categories Reviews TV September 14, 2020 “The Third Day” is riveting folk horror for a horrifying 2020 HBO's latest miniseries mines terror from the all-too-familiar rhythms of provincial authoritarianism.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies December 30, 2019 “Spectre” Loses Itself in the Ghosts of Franchise Past While Skyfall was a rousing success, Mendes' return to the Bond franchise, bogs itself down in tiresome lore and continuity.
T Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies December 28, 2019 The Secrets Of Great Ladies: Mendes and the Theatricality of “Skyfall” Sam Mendes powers his leading ladies to metatextual heights in his first Bond outing.