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If you’re a massive fan of the British series Taskmaster (like I am) you’ve likely already discovered the absolute gem that is Last One Laughing UK. I, somehow, managed to completely miss the first series, and only discovered that the series existed at all midway through the run of its second series (which just wrapped […]
Bursting onto the scene with a strong voice, a distinct style, and a fresh tale is a fantastic way to get yourself noticed. But if your follow-up repeats (or even deepens) the same beats and style, you risk pigeonholing yourself as a certain kind of director. Some are perfectly content to explore the same themes […]
The Magic Faraway Tree is a family fantasy film based on a series of books by Enid Blyton, updated for a contemporary setting. The Thompson family moves from London to the countryside after the mum, Poppy (Claire Foy), quits her job due to ethical reasons. They plan to fulfil Tim’s (Andrew Garfield) dream of growing […]
Pretty Lethal is an Amazon Prime exclusive, produced by 87North Productions, the company behind films like Nobody and Bullet Train. A dysfunctional ballet troupe is set to compete in an international competition in Budapest. Their journey to the Hungarian capital takes a detour because of a diverted flight and a broken-down bus. When the troupe […]
I’ve been pretty up and down on For All Mankind, AppleTV’s alternative history series built on the question, “What if the Soviet Union had made it to the Moon before the United States?” From that question springs a host of twists and turn on history as we know it, including the Soviet Union lasting into […]
They Will Kill You is an action-horror-comedy hybrid that is a part of a trio of films about women released in quick succession. Asia Reaves (Zazie Beetz) is a woman who has served a 10-year prison sentence and sets out to find her sister. Asia takes up a job at the execlusive Virgil club in […]
The directing duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have returned to the world of Ready or Not for a bigger sequel. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come picks up where Ready or Not left off: Grace MacCaullay (Samara Weaving) has survived playing a lethal game of hide and seek and nearly being sacrificed by […]
Ready or Not was the second feature film made by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, AKA Radio Silence (fourth if their work on anthology films gets included), and arguably the film that cemented their reputations as horror-comedy filmmakers. Grace (Samara Weaving) marries into the Le Domas family, owners of the Le Domas Family Games company. […]
Lisa Kudrow is extraordinary. That’s what I kept telling myself as I watched season three of The Comeback. She’s just extraordinary. The journey she – and co-creator Michael Patrick King – have taken the washed-up (but always hustling) Valerie Cherish on over the course of twenty years is nothing short of extraordinary. And while season […]
I will admit that I was wrong about Jury Duty when its screeners appeared in my inbox several years ago. I had been a big fan of the first season of The Joe Schmo Show – a 2003 series on Spike TV wherein an unsuspecting “normie” was thrust into a fake reality TV competition series, […]