TV amp; Movies Reviews

You are dropped into the middle of a journey. It’s unclear where exactly you’re going, at least at first. Still, a few early signposts suggest possible destinations: precocious-kid comedy, existential-crisis drama, Ransom of Red Chief-type ironyfest, paranoid thriller, regional road-to-nowhere allegory. You start to pick up that it’s a family …

When you hear that Apple TV+’s The Afterparty was created by Christopher Miller — a.k.a. one half of the Lord-Miller team responsible for the 21 Jump Street and Lego Movie franchises, among others — and features a small army of some of the funniest actors working today, including Sam Richardson, …

There are only three actual witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. That’s the story of the “Scottish Play” as we know it: foul, foggy, and — if karma is real — damningly fair to its titular king-to-be, who takes the germ of an idea proposed by that trio of “weird sisters,” the …

In one episode of Peacock’s new MacGruber series, the titular hero murders a squad of armed mercenaries in incredibly gory fashion. He punches his hand all the way through one opponent’s chest until the man’s heart comes out the other side, and bashes another’s face in over and over with …

Robert Greene wanted to do something unusual. The filmmaker behind such blurred-line experimental documentaries as Kate Plays Christine (2016) and Bisbee ’17 (2018) had seen a Kansas City press conference, in which an attorney named Rebecca Randles and her clients — four men who’d been abused by Catholic priests as …

In 1989, just months after he earned his first Oscar nomination for Big, and a few years before he went on a run of criticaland commercial success that’s nearly unrivaled in the history of cinema, Tom Hanks starred in a series of middling movies that never would’ve suggested the megastar …

“Do you believe in ghosts, Ted?” Ted Lasso’s boss, Rebecca, asks him in the first episode of Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso. “I do,” Ted replies, “but more importantly, I think they need to believe in themselves.” Rebecca (Hannah Waddingham) has hired Ted (Jason Sudeikis) — a second-tier American college football …

“This is the worst thing that’s ever happened to me!” Jessie declares upon realizing that Tom, the man she just slept with, is a movie star. On the one hand, this is Jessie being overly dramatic and narcissistic, as she is prone to do. On the other, her off-kilter way …

Gather any group of hormonal, hyped-up, headstrong teenagers in any one space, and you’ll see some interesting dynamics play out. Strand a gaggle of them in outer space with no chaperones or end(er’s) game in sight, however, and things are likely to get extremely tribal. Like every other sci-fi thriller, …

A lone figure blasts across a barren wasteland, riding a single rolling wheel like a Suzuki motorcycle, face masked and emitting a very full-metal-Furiosa energy — this is our introduction to the hero of Disney‘s Raya and the Last Dragon, a cold opening served medium-hot. Centuries ago, in a world …