‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Season 11 Premiere Review
The Pitch: Twenty-one years in, and LA’s (least) favorite curmudgeon Larry David is still up to his usual self-serving tricks, even as HBO’s long-running sitcom Curb...
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November 17, 2021
More Than A Divorce Album
“To be loved and love at the highest count, means to lose all the things I can’t live without.” When Adele croons that line...
November 15, 2021
Netflix Adaptation Hits Sour Notes
3,2,1, Let’s Jam: In a far-flung future where the solar system has been colonized and Earth has become uninhabitable, civilization has spread out into a...
November 11, 2021
A Sour Take on Christmas Hijinks
The Pitch: Pam (Ellie Kemper) and Jeff Fritzovski (Rob Delaney) are two down-on-their-luck parents forced to put their house on the market after the economy...
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James Blake Embraces The Mess
For so long, stories of great heartbreak have largely centered on romantic love, framing loss in this form as the greatest hardship of the...
Joel Coen Goes Solo In Style
This review is part of our coverage of the 2021 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: The Coen Brothers plus Shakespeare — whaddaya need,...
The Eyes of Tammy Faye Biopic: TIFF Movie Review
This review is part of our coverage of the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. The Pitch: Even within the wild, gaudy world of 1980s...
The Sound & Fury’ Rules
The Pitch: Rick James was many things — Motown renegade, punk-funk pioneer, superfreak, drug addict, abuser of women, Dave Chappelle punchline. He was Rick James, bitch....
Kanye West Channels His Vulnerability On 10th Album
Two of the most confounding words in music are “Kanye” and “West.” For the past few years, Kanye West has been less of an...
Art, Violence & Real-Life Horrors
The Pitch: Set in modern day Chicago, Candyman, the “remake” of the iconic 1992 film of the same name, turns out not to be...
‘Only Murders In The Building’ Review: True Crime Meets Whodunit
The Pitch: In the Arconia, an exclusive apartment complex on the Upper West Side, a body has been found. Suicide, they say; he had financial...
Season 8 Grapples With Police Corruption
The Pitch: The Nine-Nine is back, baby, but the precinct just isn’t the same: The one-two punch of the COVID-19 pandemic and the post-George Floyd...
Jennifer Hudson Shines In Biopic
The Pitch: A groundbreaking biopic is an inherent contradiction. When a beloved star dies, mourning fans want to relive their magic, not wallow in...