London’s burning, quite literally, in Steve McQueen‘s Blitz — you have not had a second to catch your breath before this WWII movie opens en media catastrophe and the sound of an inferno is filling your ears. It’s September, 1940, and bombs are dropping on Blighty with alarming regularity. Firefighters …
Read More »
When Billy Crystal regularly hosted the Academy Awards, he liked to begin the show with a montage where he was inserted into the nominated films. The 2000 opening leaned more on Hollywood history, with Crystal appearing in vintage films like The Graduate and Psycho. There were still jokes about that …
Read More »
It’s time for Lumon Industries employees to clock in. Following a dizzying Severance Season One finale, Apple TV+ released a Season Two teaser Wednesday for the workplace thriller. It begins with severed employee Mark, played by Adam Scott, stepping out of an elevator and sprinting aimlessly through the white, narrow …
Read More »
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 — …
Read More »
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 …
Read More »
This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Pachinko, which is now streaming on Apple TV+. Among the many highlights of the incredible first season of the Apple historical epic Pachinko was its penultimate chapter. Until that point, the series had largely bounced back and forth between Korea in …
Read More »
It’s been nearly 30 years since Vince Vaughn first exploded onto movie screens as Trent, the slick, confident best friend to Jon Favreau’s Mikey in Swingers, who was forever convinced that a trip to Las Vegas could solve any emotional problem. In the decades since, Vaughn has never lost that …
Read More »
“Beware of narrative and form,” declares a God-like voiceover to start the teaser for Apple TV+‘s Disclaimer. On Wednesday, the streaming service released a minute-long teaser for the Alfonso Cuarón-directed, seven-part series, Disclaimer, out Oct. 11. The teaser flashes several scenes from the show to introduce its several characters: Cate …
Read More »
Mexico’s infamously powerful Los Zetas cartel finds stealthy ways of doing business in the first trailer for Apple TV+‘s Cowboy Cartel. Streaming Aug. 2, the docuseries explores the takedown of cartel leaders Omar Treviño Morales and Miguel Treviño Morales, who built a violent money laundering empire under the guise of …
Read More »
“You think every story is your story,” Maddie Morganstern’s son Seth bitterly argues late in the Apple TV+ miniseries Lady in the Lake. This is a common accusation other characters level at Maddie (Natalie Portman), a Jewish woman in mid-Sixties Baltimore who has left Seth (Noah Jupe) and her husband …
Read More »