A quick warning to all readers: Once you start “Killing Eve”, you will not be able to stop. It might be best to save it for after finals week. Did the last season of “Game of Thrones” disappoint you? Do you have nothing to watch now that you’ve seen “Avengers: Endgame” (and rewatched all of…
“What did you just say?” The man slams his drink on the table and rises from his seat, about to confront our protagonist. A sudden hush falls across the room. It’s the set up for a fight you’ve seen happen a million times, and in the first episode of “Warrior” you’re going to see it…
For a film so concerned with change and the passage of time, “Ash is Purest White” feels remarkably slow. Scenes linger. The commotion of a city scrolls by in sluggish, wide shots. Conversations stretch on in long, unedited takes. But pictures don’t get selected to compete for Cannes’ vaunted Palme d’Or by playing things by…
“A Tale of Two Kitchens,” a documentary released on Netflix on May 22, tells the story of two restaurants owned by Mexican restaurateur Gabriela Camara. Directed by Trisha Ziff, the short film explores the dynamics of working in the culinary industry and the spirit that fuels Camara’s restaurants. The interior of Contramar, which opened in…
After a largely disappointing second season, the third season of “True Detective” is a refreshing return to form. Writer Nic Pizzolatto has proven that the series was more than a one-hit wonder, and can sustain a high level of quality across multiple stories. While this new season isn’t quite as groundbreaking as the first, it’s…
So that’s it. Eight years and eight seasons of television, of one of the largest cultural phenomena in the world, have come to an end at last. And it was probably the worst ending to a story that I’ve ever had the displeasure of watching. I imagine tomes will be written on the screenwriting…
I’d like to start this off by admitting that I was wrong. Dead wrong, in fact. Could David Benioff and DB Weiss bring “Game of Thrones” back from the precipice on which this entire season has been teetering? I held out hope for the remaining writing of the season, but the odds of a saving…
Ambitious, smart, funny, outspoken, overbearing, snide, controlling and endearing are just some of the adjectives that define Molly, the main character of “Booksmart.” In the first few minutes of the film, it’s tempting to try to box her into one of the character tropes we’ve seen time and time again in high school movies: she’s…
