‘Smoke’: The New Crime Thriller About the Hunt for Two Serial Arsonists
Fiction turns out to be the truth in Smoke, Apple TV+’s latest crime drama, whose story is inspired by Firebug, a 2021 podcast about a series of 1980s California fires ...
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‘The Bear’ New Season Is (Thankfully) a Much More Mature Masterpiece
If Season 3 of The Bear rankled some fans by being less hyper-frenetic than its first two outings, they’re going to be sorely disappointed by its fourth go-round. The new ...
You’ll Be Shocked by How Bad ‘M3GAN 2.0’ Is
It’s virtually impossible to catch viral-sensation lightning in a bottle twice. M3GAN 2.0 doesn’t even come close. Gerard Johnston’s sequel, in theaters June 27, rehashes the lukewarm sassiness and dancing-routine ...
Swoon Over This Summer’s Most Unlikely Love Story
A theatergoer gets so used to shock, boundaries being transgressed, profanities, sex, naked bodies, and stentorian messages being delivered about the state of the world that a relatively quiet play ...
‘Ironheart’ Proves Marvel’s TV Output Is an Absolute Disaster
Two-and-a-half years after she was introduced, underwhelmingly, in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Dominique Thorne’s Riri Williams finally gets the front-and-center treatment with Ironheart, a Disney+ series about a brilliant MIT ...
‘Countdown’: The Year’s Most Insufferable TV Show Is Now Here
Streaming services were supposed to offer a unique alternative to network TV, but the older they grow, the more they resemble that which they sought to replace. Just as Netflix ...
The ‘Poop Cruise’ That Stranded Thousands on a Ship With No Plumbing
When they say poop deck they mean it!Netflix’s Trainwreck documentary project, which began in 2022 as a three-parter about Woodstock ’99, has returned. This second run for the series is ...
TV’s Silliest Show ‘The Gilded Age’ Is Finally Getting Dramatic
In the current season of HBO’s Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That…, Carrie Bradshaw is fixated on the past.More specifically, she can’t stop thinking about the generations ...
‘28 Years Later’ Proves This Is Modern Horror’s Best Zombie Franchise
The undead refuse to rest. In 28 Years Later, they’ve lost none of the fleet ferocity they first displayed in 2003’s harrowing 28 Days Later and its first-rate 2007 follow-up ...
What If Prince George Was Gay and Into Kinky S&M Sex?
A member of staff at New York theater Playwrights Horizons asked what play a friend and I had come to see. “Prince F****t,” I said, making the “f****t” sound as ...
