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In Season 2, ‘The Mandalorian’ Embarks on New Adventures to Find Baby Yoda’s Home
Features • Published on October 2020
Maybe television truly is the best next destination for “Star Wars.” The format is proving more than adequate to expand and explore our beloved galaxy far, far away. The season two…
Refugees Flee Terror Only to Find New Horrors in Memorable ‘His House’
Features • Published on October 2020
Horror at its best is never about the monsters. The things that go bump in the night are more striking when they serve as mirror reflections of very real, relatable fears.
Lonely Monsters Just Want to Hold Your Hand in Eerie ‘Come Play’
Features • Published on October 2020
“Come Play” is a fairy tale for an age where children are raised gazing at the glow of their iPads. Director…
‘This Is Us’: The Pearsons’ Journey Is Powerfully Impacted by Current Events in Two-Hour Season 5 Premiere
Features • Published on October 2020
No show has premiered in 2020 fully justifying its name like “This Is Us.” NBC’s crowning network achievement becomes something more mature and strikingly…
Sasha Sloan Reflects on Turning Personal Stories Into the Songs of Her Debut Album ‘Only Child’
Features • Published on October 2020
Sasha Sloan is an introvert who, in recent years, has been opening herself up. Still only 25, Sloan is prolific songwriter who has written for quite the roster of…
Nicole Kidman’s Refined Tension Outdoes the Plot of HBO’s ‘The Undoing’
Features • Published on October 2020
The rich are at it again in HBO’s new six-part limited series “The Undoing.” You know what that means. They cheat, gossip and eventually…
‘The Queen’s Gambit’: Anya Taylor-Joy Makes All the Right Moves in Netflix’s Brilliant Chess Saga
Features • Published on October 2020
Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit” approaches chess the way other shows or movies have profiled musical prodigies. Much of the impact of this limited series…
Robert Zemeckis Brings Back Roald Dahl’s ‘The Witches’ With Big Effects but Less Magic
Features • Published on October 2020
Children’s stories are designed to be told over and over. The best ones are written in a way where the adults get a sly kind of enjoyment while the kids have…
Netflix Updates Daphne du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ From Gothic Melodrama To Glossy Soap
Features • Published on October 2020
The lastest adaption of “Rebecca” continues the ongoing trend of searching in the past for any classic ripe for a remake. It carries on…
Volume 2 of Netflix’s ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Brings New Cases and Disturbing Questions
Features • Published on October 2020
Men who walked out the door and never came back, felons still on the run, and the possibility of restless ghosts from the 2011 Japan earthquake. Exactly what we would expect…
‘Lovecraft Country’: Thrilling Season Finale Ends With Blood-Soaked Heartbreak
Features • Published on October 2020
Now reaching its final episode of a wildly inventive first season, “Lovecraft Country” becomes pure magic and mayhem. HBO’s adaptation of Matt Ruff’s novel…
In Spike Lee-Directed ‘American Utopia,’ David Byrne Powerfully Transcends the Stage
Features • Published on October 2020
A profound live show can become a transcendental experience, combining performance and sound into something akin to secular spiritualism. Spike Lee’s dazzling chronicle of…
‘Grand Army’ Is a Portrait of Teenage Self-Discovery and the Hangovers That Follow
Features • Published on October 2020
Gen Z is already known for beginning to define much of the slogans and movements of its time. Defying gender norms and labels, picking up the banners of woke culture, they…
‘Helstrom’ Curses Its Demons and Heroes With Mundane Plotting
Features • Published on October 2020
Slow-burner shows have increasingly been taking on the form of endurance tests. They want to see how devoted you can be through the dragged pacing and moody camera work, awaiting the…
‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Turns Famous Activist Trial Into a Critique of Systemic Abuses
Features • Published on October 2020
Courtrooms and trials provide the perfect setting for interests to clash. This is why the legal thriller is practically its own genre. Aaron Sorkin…
‘Martin Eden’ Reimagines Jack London’s Classic Novel as an Enrapturing Italian Saga
Features • Published on October 2020
In “Martin Eden” a man pulls himself up the way many people have done throughout history, by self-education. But becoming cultured is not enough,…
‘Totally Under Control’ Reveals With Damning Detail How the White House Fumbled the Covid-19 Response
Features • Published on October 2020
The most important documentary of the year is about this very year we’re still living through. With the precision of a complex thriller, “Totally Under Control…
‘The Right Stuff’ Is an Energetic Look at America’s Early Astronauts and Their Bouts With Celebrity
Features • Published on October 2020
Disney’s update of “The Right Stuff” is both pure Americana and a vintage study of our celebrity culture. It has a classic form of…
‘Yellow Rose’ Sings a Country Ballad About the Perils of Undocumented Life
Features • Published on October 2020
“Yellow Rose” brings a special touch to the theme of living in the shadows of this country. With a youthful melancholy it evokes a…
Jim Cummings’ ‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ Growls With Gore and Absurd Hilarity
Features • Published on October 2020
“The Wolf of Snow Hollow” is such an odd movie. It wants to be a scare that is taken seriously and a goofball romp.