It Was Just An Accident reinvents the revenge thriller as a layered character study about forgiving the people who committed the worst crimes possible. A car breaking down in Iran creates a domino effect that leads to one of the year’s most surprising crowd-pleasers. The film opens with a man
Jim Jarmusch is not a writer/director known for creating action-packed films, but he reaches a new level of idiosyncrasy with Father Mother Sister Brother. The anthology follows three families on different journeys and stages of their lives. The three stories feel too separate and cold to strike
Pillion is a coming-of-age dramedy hidden amid a kinky film about sub/dom relationships. Harry Lighton’s indie comedy/drama balances the very adult underground world of leather daddies with a crowd-pleasing story about a young man finding his own way in the sexual landscape of gay relationships.
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
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.
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely