I didn’t expect a show with a title like Margo’s Got Money Troubles to the way it does. It sounds like a punchline. Like something breezy. But it keeps drifting back into my head at odd times usually not during the big moments, but the smaller, slightly uncomfortable ones the show doesn’t underline. Like when … Read more
Mother Mary is Rated R by Motion Picture Rating (MPA) for some violent content and language. There’s a scene midway through Mother Mary where Anne Hathaway just stands there — not performing grief, not telegraphing it just standing in the kind of stillness that makes you forget you’re watching a movie. You almost don’t want … Read more
I’ve spent two days trying to figure out why Erupcja bothered me more than it should have. It’s not a good film, but bad films don’t usually linger. This one does not because it haunts you but because it keeps raising its hand like it has something to say and then, when called upon, just … Read more
Outcome is Rated R by Motion Picture Rating (MPA) for language throughout and sexual references. There’s a stretch in Outcome where Martin Scorsese shows up in a bowling alley, and for a brief moment the movie seems to remember how to breathe. He sits there as Red, an aging agent conducting business among fluorescent lanes … Read more
I’ll be honest, I almost didn’t go. The title alone had me skeptical. You, Me & Tuscany sounds like a Hallmark movie someone accidentally greenlit with a real budget, and I sat down with my arms essentially already crossed. Twenty minutes in I’d uncrossed them. By the time Halle Bailey walked through that village square … Read more
The Christophers is Rated R by Motion Picture Rating (MPA) for language. Steven Soderbergh’s “The Christophers” slips into place so smoothly you might not notice, at first, how sharp its edges are. On the surface, it’s about a dying painter and a scheme to profit from his unfinished work. But the deeper you go, the … Read more
At least three times in the opening stretch of Euphoria‘s third season, one character or another looks up from whatever beautiful mess they’re in the middle of and admits: I miss high school. And the first time you hear it, you almost nod along. Of course they do. That’s what people say in their twenties … Read more