TV amp; Movies Reviews

On The Paper, Peacock’s new quasi-spinoff of The Office, Domhnall Gleeson plays Ned Sampson, new editor-in-chief of The Toledo Truth Teller, a once-mighty Ohio newspaper that has, like an awful lot of print journalism, become a shell of its former self. The Truth Teller now employs only a handful of …

It’s last call at Paul’s, the dive bar down the block from Benny’s Burritos on the corner of 6th and Ave. A, and folks are getting rowdy. The year is 1998. The place is New York’s Lower East Side, before the danger was fully leached out of the boho-hipster paradise; …

In an episode of the new HBO miniseries Task, Pennsylvania garbageman Robbie (Tom Pelphrey) briefly takes hostage one of the members of the law-enforcement task force that’s been chasing him for his side gig robbing drug stash houses. After getting to know his prisoner a bit, Robbie laments, “I’ve kidnapped …

Never underestimate the sheer pleasure of hearing Olivia Colman say the C-word. Yes, that C-word, and while it’s universally acknowledged that the term means something far more colloquial and congenial in the United Kingdom than it does on these shores, the British actor makes it sound as obscene as humanly …

You haven’t heard of Oliver. Not yet, at least. You’d recognize the type, though. He’s a twentysomething British pop singer, blessed with a brooding handsomeness and a soulful, sad-boi sound — a little bit of the Weeknd, a whole lotta Zayn — that’s extremely Spotify-friendly. He’s famous enough to have …

The miraculous thing about BoJack Horseman was how the animated Netflix comedy managed to place the darkest, most melancholy material right alongside bursts of pure, concentrated silliness. Yes, it was the story of a clinically depressed, alcoholic, perpetually disappointing washed-up celebrity (the titular horse-man). But it also had room for …

It was just supposed to be a nice weekend away, nothing more than a fun jaunt to a friend’s beach house, complete with Seventies soft rock sings-alongs in the car (Kenny Loggins’ “Whenever I Call You ‘Friend’” is a great road-trip jam) and maybe even a quick hand job en …

Down these mean streets of Bakersfield, California, a woman must go, who is not herself mean, who is neither tarnished (well, a little self-admittedly tarnished) nor afraid. She is the hero; she is everything. She is Honey O’Donoghue, and as played by Margaret Qualley in Honey Don’t! — a title …

Early on in My Undesirable Friends, filmmaker Julia Loktev’s monumental and marathon-length chronicle of Russian journalists attempting to practice their trade in Putin‘s Russia, an interview subject is asked about totalitarian regimes. If you look at how such governments are portrayed in movies, the person notes, the idea is that …

James Gunn’s Superman was designed as a fresh start for movies and TV shows based on DC Comics characters. Henry Cavill and the desaturated edgelord aesthetic of Zack Snyder, out; David Corenswet, vivid colors, optimism, and rambunctious superdogs, in. As Gunn and Peter Safran reboot a franchise that largely wasn’t …