VisionQuest
The new Disney+ show VisionQuest is the latest Marvel television series, and it’s one of the good ones. It’s the conclusion of the trilogy t...
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War and What’s Making Us Happy
Nothing’s fair in love and war — and it's especially true in the very watchable HBO series War. Dominic West and Sienna Miller play a high-p...
The scariest movie I’ve ever seen
Do you like scary movies? It's spooky season, so what better way to get into the Halloween spirit than plopping down in front of a film engi...
Wildwood
Wildwood is one of the best movies of the year. It’s an epic stop-motion animated saga about a young girl trying to rescue her brother, and...
Clayface
Clayface brings R-rated body horror to this origin story of a Batman villain. The film stars Tom Rhys Harries as an actor whose dream life c...
Wicker and What’s Making Us Happy
Wicker is somehow the coziest and horniest movie of the fall. Olivia Coleman and Alexander Skarsgård star as the unlikely couple: She’s a fi...
Youth
We all love actor/writer Sharon Horgan, and she’s got a new show on HBO called Youth . Horgan stars as Alex, a 50-year-old divorcée who find...
Sense and Sensibility
A new Jane Austen adaptation is going to give you love, family and honor, repressed emotions and probably financial peril that can only be r...
Whalefall and What's Making Us Happy
Guy meets whale; complications ensue. That's basically the plot of the new survival thriller Whalefall. It stars Austin Abrams as Jay, who g...
You Can See Everything
About a month before Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes went to prison for defrauding her investors, she and her partner Billy Evans invited...
The Lowdown
The great FX series The Lowdown stars Ethan Hawke as a freelance investigative reporter with a knack for sticking his nose where it doesn't...
Other Mommy
The trailer for the movie Other Mommy went viral when it dropped a few months ago. It dominated the box office this weekend, but was panned...
Carrie
The new series Carrie updates the Stephen King book for the digital age, and plays with what we think we know in some surprising ways. Strea...
The Social Reckoning and What’s Making Us Happy
Don’t call it a sequel: The Social Reckoning is a companion piece to The Social Network . While the first movie chronicled the invention of...
East of Eden
A new series on Netflix is taking a bold crack at the American classic. Maybe you read John Steinbeck’s East of Eden in school. Or maybe you...
Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
Mahershala Ali’s new movie isn’t the Blade reboot, but it’s still worth your time. Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother follows a newly widow...
Verity
Verity stars Dakota Johnson as a struggling novelist who gets an unusual assignment. She's been asked to ghostwrite the final books by a sup...
Digger and What’s Making Us Happy
Digger is a loud, surprising, audacious, and sure-to-be-polarizing entry in this year’s Oscars race. The film stars Tom Cruise as a powerful...
A Different World
The TV series A Different World has loomed large in the culture since ending in the ‘90s, and now school is back in session in a new sequel...
Forgotten Island
Forgotten Island is a wonderful new animated feature from the team that brought you Kung Fu Panda 2 and Puss In Boots: The Last Wish . We’re...