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There seems to be something in the water over at the Apatow house. The irreverent comedy is alive and well, the mantle carried by Maude Apatow in her directorial debut with Poetic License. Everything you love about buddy comedies, foul-mouthed protagonists, and aimless man-child antics are all
There's no sense in burying the lede here. Obsession is about as good as horror gets, making an absolute meal out of its simple premise and delivering just about everything you could want from a genre film. It's smart, sometimes funny, always entertaining and often downright terrifying. Its expert
After what seems like forever, the last stretch of a very long awards season will finally come to an end. On March 15th, the Oscars will commence and we can finally put the heated races and made-up campaign controversies behind us. The 98th Academy Awards is really a tale of two films, One Battle
It's always a risk when you ask a performer to shoulder a film and carry it over the finish line. Sometimes it works, the star's sheer charisma is enough to override the glaring flaws. But often times, no matter how bright that star shines it can't outshine the weaknesses. Thus is the case with
I am such a sucker for films that make their setting a character. The kind where the city itself is so integral to the story it can't be made anywhere else. I also love a good 70s crime thriller, character-driven narratives packed with equal heart and thrills. Enter The Only Living Pickpocket in
Psychosexual horror comedy featuring tentacle sex and a satirical sledgehammer to therapy culture is a hard sell anywhere. For something like that to work, you've got to be all in on the vibes. If not, the whole thing crumbles and becomes an insufferable sit, the hyper stylized execution more
I've had stock in Julia Ducournau since her debut film Raw, and doubled down on that buy in with her follow up Titane. So naturally my excitement for her third outing Alpha could not be contained. An expert in body horror mixed with insightful ideas of grief and generational trauma, Ducournau has
In television, hospital shows are a dime a dozen. The rise of The Pitt, the unstoppable longevity of Grey's Anatomy, and a number other hospital-centric shows reveal no shortage of fascination with medicine and trauma. It's often rare in cinema unless its haunted wards or part of a protagonist's
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
There was a time when the stoner comedy was a reliable genre, particularly among the coveted demographic of young men. I remember those late nights in the college dorm quite fondly. Up late working on a paper last minute, ready for the weekend, and a friend suggests ordering a pizza and popping in
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The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
