There’s a moment early in “Michael” that made me set down my notebook. Not because it was moving. Because it was telling. Young Michael, the one with the big eyes and the smaller voice, is practicing with his brothers in Gary, Indiana. His father Joe barks at him to make eye contact. And the boy … Read more
Okay, full disclosure — when I heard Jorma Taccone was remaking The Trip, I genuinely groaned. Out loud. In front of people. Because The Trip, Tommy Wirkola’s 2021 Norwegian black comedy about a married couple who both show up to their country vacation with secret plans to murder each other, was one of those films I’d already … Read more
‘ll be honest: I did not want to watch a season of Sullivan’s Crossing without Scott Patterson. There. I said it. The man played Sully like he’d been born in a flannel shirt, all gruff edges and a soft center you had to earn. When he left “creative differences,” which in TV speak usually means someone got … Read more
I walked into Lee Cronin’s The Mummy hoping for something stupid in the best way. You know the feeling. You want the director of Evil Dead Rise to take a chainsaw to a tired franchise and see what kind of noise it makes. And for maybe twenty minutes, I thought I was going to get it. That prologue in … Read more
I almost turned off “Mile End Kicks” twenty minutes in. Not because it’s bad. Because Grace was making me crazy. She gets this book deal , a real one, from an actual publisher, to write about “Jagged Little Pill”, and then she just… doesn’t do it. She goes to shows. She hooks up with the … Read more
Cal McMau, in his directorial debut, has made a prison picture that barely lets you breathe and more impressively, he’s found a way to make this grim, familiar territory feel newly urgent. Working from a script by Hunter Andrews and Eoin Doran, McMau never once opens the door to the outside world. We’re trapped in … Read more
I was ready to hate this. Not because I wanted to. But because the first season of Beef was one of those rare things that comes out of nowhere and punches you in the chest. You know the type. You tell everyone about it. You rewatch the parking lot scene three times. And then Netflix … Read more