There’s a particular kind of horror that has nothing to do with monsters. It’s the horror of watching someone you love explain, calmly and without raising his voice, why up is actually down and there’s no point arguing about it. That’s the horror The Truthers is built on, and it took me a solid twenty … Read more
I’ve watched a lot of bad movies in my time, but “Jana Nayagan” is the first one that made me feel bad for the flies. There’s a scene where a corpse gets thrown from a moving van, and the hero drapes a flag over her body to preserve some dignity, except the corpse is AI-generated, … Read more
Stuart Bloom spent twelve seasons of “The Big Bang Theory” as the guy everyone forgot was in the room, the comic bookshop owner who dated Sheldon’s mother and existed mostly as a punchline about loneliness. Now he’s flung across the multiverse fighting for his life, and somehow that promotion still feels like an afterthought. That, … Read more
I don’t usually remember what a killer says to her victims before she kills them, mostly because the shows I watch don’t bother giving her anything worth saying. But Catherine, the woman at the center of “Furious,” talks to the men she’s about to murder like she’s trying to work something out about them, or … Read more
72 Hours is Rated R by Motion Picture Rating (MPA) for pervasive language, sexual material, drug use and graphic nudity. Everyone has been in that group chat by accident. You watch the messages stack up, feel the slow creep of I don’t belong here, and quietly hit leave. Joe, the forty-year-old ad executive Kevin Hart … Read more
In summary, a court lady who can hear the dead whispering through palace walls, paired against her will with a demon slayer too exhausted by his job to care whether the kingdom lives or dies. Now give them eight episodes, a king watching his sons drop one by one exactly the way his own brothers … Read more
A woman steals a stranger’s kid because she’s decided the kid is secretly her. Written down like that, The Kidnapping of Arabella sounds unhinged, maybe even a little dangerous. Watching it, though, you mostly just feel for her. That gap between how insane this premise sounds and how tender it plays, is the whole reason … Read more