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If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my time as a TV critic, it’s that when Allison Jones is listed as a show’s casting director, you’re going to be in for a treat. So, after watching the pilot of AppleTV+’s new show Widow’s Bay – which had a host of actors in it that I […]
Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, finally gets his theatrical biopic with his nephew, Jaafar Jackson, playing the iconic star. Joseph Jackson (Colman Domingo) is a steel mill worker who’s determined to get his family out of Gary, Indiana. He makes his sons perform as The Jackson 5, including 10-year-old Michael (Juliano True Valid). When […]
Glenrothan serves as Brian Cox’s directorial debut at the young age of 79. He aims to make a love letter to his homeland. Sandy (Cox) is the owner of a family distillery that’s about to celebrate its 200th anniversary. He writes to his estranged brother, Donal (Alan Cumming), about his poor health and asks him […]
I write about a lot of television. And that usually means I watch a series before it airs, compile my thoughts in a review, and then move onto the next show. It’s rare I get to savor a series or watch it like everyone else – even when I’m churning out episode reviews. That’s part […]
Lee Cronin scored a big hit with his revival of the Evil Dead franchise. He attempts the same trick by bringing The Mummy franchise back to its horror roots. Charlie and Larrissa Cannon’s (Jack Reynor and Laia Costa) lives changed forever when their daughter, Katie (Emily Mitchell), was abducted when they lived in Cairo. Eight […]
After screwing up an attempt to make a not so revolutionary new condom the official prophylactic of the 2025 Brazil World Cup, two sales reps screw up the final between Brazil and Argentina. The resultant public outrage makes it very difficult for Brad (Mark Wahlberg) and Elijah (Paul Walter Hauser) to get out of Brazil […]
You, Me & Tuscany is an Italian-set rom-com that acts as a starring vehicle for The Little Mermaid’s Halle Bailey and Bridgerton hunk Regé-Jean Page. Anna Montgomery’s (Bailey) life is a mess. She dropped out of culinary school after her mum’s death, works as a house sitter, and is broke. After meeting Matteo (Lorenzo de Moor), a wealthy Italian man, […]
In part one, I highlighted five examples of Black indie animation: Toward Galaxy’s End, The Chaotic Misadventures of Arch & Reggie, Wheels & Roses, Pretty Pretty Please I Don’t Want to be a Magical Girl, and The Three Tomes. I also have plans to publish a review of The Ebony Witch pilot. Since part one […]
It took me several episodes to really fall for the charms of Margo’s Got Money Troubles, the new AppleTV+ series based on the novel of the same name, largely because there’s a lot the series needs to set in motion in those early episodes before we really get a chance to see just what the […]
James McAvoy makes his directorial debut with a biopic about Silibil N’ Brains, a rap duo that fooled the British music industry into thinking they were an emerging American hip-hop act. Billy “Silibil” Boyd (Samuel Bottomley) and Gavin “Brains” Bain (Séamus McLean Ross) are best friends and rap partners in Dundee. When they travel to […]