Drama

Song Lang stunned me. I confess I’d not got around to watching it for some time, but then its inclusion in the SHOUT programme (neatly...

It’s a funny old world, hence how What We Wanted, this year’s Austrian Oscar contribution, can swerve a theatrical release and end up with very...

What struck me first about Lucky Grandma is that it is a rare film: American, yet nearly all the dialogue is in Mandarin. The titular...

Jungleland is, on some level, a boxing movie, but it has almost none of the tropes you’d expect. There is no inspirational training montage. There’s...

This recap of A Teacher season 1, episode 3 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words. ...

There is nothing wrong with growing up in the rural heartland. I’ll take a little bit of Brooks and Dunn over Catullus and Propertius any...

This recap of A Teacher season 1, episode 2 contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words. ...

This recap of A Teacher season 1, episode 1 contains spoilers.  Maybe it’s because I have a rough idea of the plot of A Teacher, but...

This recap of Industry season 1, episode 1, “Induction”, contains spoilers. I must confess that when I read the premise of Industry, which is about...

This review of Netflix film Citation contains no spoilers. The Nigerian drama was released on November 6, 2020. We are often told of true stories...

This review of Netflix film Mother (2020, Japanese release) contains no spoilers. The drama was released on November 3, 2020. Mother, not to be mistaken with...

Three young witches, Lourdes (Zoey Luna), Frankie (Gideon Adlon), and Tabby (Lovie Simone) welcome the new girl, Lily (Cailee Spaeny) in school to make up...

This recap of The Undoing Season 1 Episode 1 contains spoilers. Television criticism is weird. If The Undoing wasn’t the work of David E. Kelley,...

Once a pawn a time (yes, I went there), inspirational true-stories had been all the rage. They have been performed a thousand times over. The...

This recap of the Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit Season 1 Episode 7, “End Game” — the ending explained — contains significant spoilers. We...

This recap of the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit Season 1 Episode 6, “Adjournment,” contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode — check out the...

This recap of the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit Season 1 Episode 5, “Fork,” contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode — check out the...

This recap of the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit Season 1 Episode 4, “Middle Game,” contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode — check out...

This recap of the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit Season 1 Episode 3, “Doubled Pawns,” contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode — check out...

This recap of the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit Season 1 Episode 2, “Exchanges,” contains significant spoilers. We recapped every episode — check out the...