Elisabeth Moss no longer needs to prove just how fully she’s mastered the art of the silent scream, but The Handmaid’s Tale episode “Unknown Caller” ramps it up a notch, even for a show that’s all about shouting into the…
The Last Black Man in San Francisco Movie Review: Home is the impossible dream in a gentrified nightmare
The Last Black Man in San Francisco speaks to a level of devastation that’s been discussed before, that of how racism, gentrification, and class converge over generations to leave entire neighborhoods left behind in the mad rush for profit. In…
The Handmaid’s Tale 3×04 Review: The Revolution Really Won’t Be Televised
We may be impatient for the revolution to get going, but it’s also refreshing to see The Handmaid’s Tale take its time again. Even if the decision is entirely calculated, a slow and satisfying build, hopefully to be a followed…
Late Night Movie Review: Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson are a platonic workplace love story for our times
Late Night is one of those films that seems tailor made for everyone in it, and not just because Mindy Kaling writes, produces, and stars. Emma Thompson also seems like she was born to play the brilliant, talented, prickly late…
The Handmaid’s Tale Season 3 Premiere Review: Fighting the Power is a Bloody Business
The third season of The Handmaid’s Tale picks up right where the second left off, which is with June (Elisabeth Moss) choosing to stay in Gilead rather than escaping with Emily (Alexis Bledel) and her infant daughter. It’s deeply understandable…
The Third Wife movie review: Love and marriage are awkward bedfellows in 19th century Vietnam
The Third Wife may tell another story about a repressed, frustrated wife, but at least it’s told with more style and less hysteria than usual. True, writer-director Ash Mayfair is very aware that there’s not much positivity to be found…
Non-Fiction Movie Review: Change is tiresome in latest Olivier Assayas outing
Non-Fiction wastes little time getting to the issues that are at its heart, opening with a discussion of a book on politics that’s causing a stir. Or at least ripples. Seeing as how the film is set in the world…
