So far this year, numerous irresistible series have been released. Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu, Apple TV+, and Peacock have dared to place increasingly exciting and seductive...
Nikolaus Geyrhalter has described his static-camera, nearly architecturally-composed, observational docs as “archival material, which people will dig out in 50 or 100 years.” Which makes perfect...
Last August, streaming platform Hulu premiered the irreverent series Only Murders in the Building, a crime-solving-oriented mystery comedy. This peculiar production follows three strangers,...
There are many indelible images in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future but none so tortuous as Viggo Mortensen’s performance artist, Saul Tenser, contorted on a feeding chair grown from bone...
Like many film journalists, not to mention jury members, who caught Hogir Hirori’s now discredited Sabaya at this year’s Sundance I was riveted, calling it (in the intro to my interview with...
This review contains some spoilers, but still leaves plenty to anticipate. The new installment of the Duffer brothers’ hit series is fast-paced, funny and genuinely creepy. Stranger Things returns...
Harper Marlowe, the protagonist in Alex Garland’s astounding third feature, Men, has one of those names that conjures up an array of literary possibility. Could she be part Harper Lee, observing...
The 'true crime' phenomenon seems unstoppable on the HBO platform. Shortly after launching We own this City and Tokyo Vice, HBO Max has surprised us with the series The Staircase, another show...
On its surface, Mind Over Murder - the titillatingly titled six-part doc series that debuted June 20 on HBO - might seem merely the latest addition to a bloated, true-crime juggernaut. And yet in the...
Matt Weaver, University of Portsmouth Disney-Pixar’s latest animated escapade is about to hit our cinema screens. It’s the origin story of one of their most beloved characters – Toy Story’s...
