For his HBO follow-up to Mare of Easttown, writer Brad Ingelsby doesn’t stray far with Task, another police procedural laced with familial drama that’s set in a Pennsylvania neighborhood where ...
Surprisingly high scores? These reviews are taken from Vice magazine, v29n2: THE REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL ISSUE. To subscribe to four print issues each year, click here—you’ll need to subscribe by ...
This August has turned into New York City at the movies month, thanks first to Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest and now to Caught Stealing, an adaptation of Charlie Huston’s ...
The 1984 cult classic The Toxic Avenger was horndog superhero schlock that spawned an improbable media franchise. While the long-term legacy of filmmaker Macon Blair’s contemporary remake, in theaters August ...
Divorce is a misery, and so too is The Roses.This second cinematic version of Warren Adler’s 1981 novel The War of the Roses, like its 1989 predecessor starring Michael Douglas ...
Desire is a catalyst for disaster in Splitsville, a romantic comedy that tears down, and then builds back up, its intertwined characters to amusingly penetrating effect. For their follow-up to ...
The safe word was “lasagna.” On the floor, a group of people playing demonstrators, sitting cross-legged, arms linked, were chanting, “Act Up! Fight Back! Fight AIDS!” Around them standing, ready ...
Death hovers over The Thursday Murder Club, not only because its title organization’s business is homicide, but because its members are older men and women living in a retirement community ...
Unlike other towering figures of the animated-sitcom world like Matt Groening, Seth MacFarlane, or Mike Judge, Raphael Bob-Waksberg is in the odd position of having created multiple cartoon shows without ...
Line up once more, New York City! Free Shakespeare in the Park, as overseen by the Public Theater, is back after two years away and an $85 million facelift. First, ...
