TV amp; Movies Reviews

A rich guy purchases the services of a sex worker for a one-week “girlfriend experience,” which turns into something even better than the real thing — does this sound familiar? Rewind back to 1990, and you can see how, given the right combination of casting, sitcom-level humor and materialistic wish …

In nearly 30 years of creating or co-creating series from Spin City to Scrubs to Bad Monkey, Bill Lawrence has been one of TV’s most reliable sitcom showrunners. He has a great eye for talent in front of and behind the camera. He has a sharp sense of humor and …

They mull over a cancer diagnosis, they dream of a bright future, they teach their five-year-old daughter how to cook, they give birth in a gas-station bathroom, they make up, they break up, they meet-cute — we can’t remember if this is the exact order of the relationship we see …

Around 37 minutes into The Last of the Sea Women, Sue Kim’s stunning documentary now streaming on Apple TV+, Woo Jeong-min dives into a sea so dark that its teal depths look almost solid. As she drifts toward an unseen seabed, you get the sense she might disappear entirely — …

The first big laugh in Rumours hits before the opening credits have even finished rolling: “The producers would like to thank the G7 leaders for their support and consultation during the making of this movie.” As political bloggers, chronic doomscrollers and any conspiracy theorist with access to the internet will …

Breaking into the music business, crafting insanely addictive earworm hits, recognizing genre boundaries, starting a streetwear fashion line, wearing properly sized ranger hats — Pharrell Williams has never done anything by the book. The kid from Virginia Beach, Virginia, had always felt like someone who saw (and heard) the world …

Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna have been friends since they were boys growing up in Mexico City, and they experienced a major career breakout together starring in Alfonso Cuarón’s 2001 coming-of-age road trip film Y Tu Mamá También. Given that shared past, you might expect them to share the …

What if a novel showed up on your doorstep, and you were not only a main character in it, but its villain? And what if copies of the book — which begins by noting that “any resemblance to persons living or dead is not a coincidence” — started appearing in …

Every movie alcoholic lets you ride shotgun with them to their rock bottom, and the low point that Saoirse Ronan‘s character — her name is Rona — hits headfirst in The Outrun is a high-impact one. When we first meet her, she’s being thrown out of a pub in London, …

He’s been called the Clown Prince of Crime, a first-round contender for best Batman bad guy of all time, and a supervillain IP with the same amount of brand recognition as his Caped Crusader archnemesis. For most actors, he’s an excuse to go H.A.M. and/or to extremely ham it up. …