Recap: The Curse (S1, Ep5) — Whitney Cracks Under Pressure in Tense, Excellent Episode
Just as I thought the first season of The Curse was meandering a little, it sucks me right back in. Things have been looser after the pilot episode, as the […]
Recap: The Curse (S1, Ep4) — Dougie Gets Some Time in the Light in Character-Defining Episode
By the time “Under the Big Tree” is over, we have a greater understanding of the Siegels. Whitney (Emma Stone) is a parasite. We see it in episodes two and […]
Recap: The Curse (S1, Ep3) — Explosive Fight Reveals More Holes in the Siegel Marriage
The Siegel marriage has seemed off from the beginning. Ignoring the weird sex and the utterly repellant people, when you look at Whitney’s (Emma Stone) and Asher’s (Nathan Fielder) vacant […]
Review: Yorgos Lanthimos Channels Dark Humor, Surrealism and a Touch of Feminism Into an Enrapturing Poor Things
This article was written by Lauren Coates. Between awards darlings like The Favourite and offbeat fan favorites including The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Yorgos Lanthimos’ filmography […]
Recap: The Curse (S1, Ep2) — Tense Second Episode Sheds More Light on Whitney’s Motivations
What’s wrong with Whitney Siegel (Emma Stone)? Last week’s outstanding premiere of The Curse focused more on her equally neurotic husband Asher (Nathan Fielder), but there’s a fairly even split […]
Recap: The Curse (S1, Ep1) — Nathan Fielder’s First Step Into Fiction Is Brilliant, Beautiful and Quietly Terrifying
In my mind, a difference between non-fiction and fictional television is that the former is about asking a question and the latter is about answering one. Comedian(?) Nathan Fielder is […]
Review: Disney Aims to Create a Following for Cruella; Barely Manages More than Great Costumes
On the surface, there’s nothing terribly objectionable about the idea to make a film centered on the villain of Disney’s classic animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Cruella De Vil […]
Review: Unremarkable Storytelling of The Croods: A New Age is Elevated by a Funny, Energetic Cast
The Croods movies were always a little smarter than they let on, probably because the characters themselves are meant to seem…something less than intelligent. Of course, it helps that these […]
Review: Zombieland Sequel Reunites Original Cast, Finds Laughs Along the Way
I’m not a big fan of the lazy question “Who asked for this sequel?” If the sequel in question is, you know, good, then I guess the answer to that […]
Review: A Sublimely Entertaining Game of One-Up(Wo)manship in The Favourite
History has rarely been so playfully nasty as it is in the latest from director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer). Set in the court […]
Film Review: La La Land, A Modern and Nuanced Take on the Classic Hollywood Musical
Despite what you may have been led to believe, writer-director Damien (Whiplash) Chazelle’s La La Land is not some type of homage to the Hollywood musicals of old. It only […]