“Get out, we’re… sleeping!” shouts Don, sprawled on top of Betty, as Bobby and Sally burst into their bedroom. Kids are everywhere in ‘Three Sundays’, the first episode of Mad Men 2025-02-04 06:58:34 +0000 UTC View Post
‘The Wheel’ is without question the single best-known episode of Mad Men, made famous by the eponymous pitch Don gives to Kodak for their slideshow wheel. It’s a much-analyzed scene,...
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A bathroom isn’t a bathroom. A gift isn’t a gift. A house isn’t a house. ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ is where Mad Men becomes Mad Men, a house of smoke and mirrors, a labyr...
2025-02-03 01:56:30 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain Hathi i’Mati had served the emperor’s half-brother for almost four years now. The rajah Jahangir Eru Vandifatori, known to his inner circle as Jahan, did not often keep high-ranking ret...
2025-01-31 23:30:44 +0000 UTC View PostSlava didn’t like the wizard. She didn’t like his soft, slender hands, or his white skin, unmarred by windburn or the sun. She didn’t like his gentle voice or his long, flowing hair the color...
2025-01-27 06:36:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Tom Bloom’s Kill Six Billion Demons is big, ambitious, and omnivorous, a tasting menu informed by hundreds of discrete influences ranging from Hindu mythology to Dragon Ball Z t...
2025-01-22 21:12:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Six years ago, I really didn’t like this movie. I don’t know if I was distracted or just in a bad mood, but watching it now I can’t for the life of me understand why I wrote the things I did....
2025-01-20 21:09:49 +0000 UTC View PostPrologue: The Stairs
Hama hated the climb to his master’s rooms. Sixty-seven steps hewn from rough limestone led up to the first landing and its mullioned window of unblemished glass panes ...
2025-01-16 01:22:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Human mannerisms, but no human expressions. A gaze, but no eyes, only empty pits. Animator Ray Harryhausen’s great bronze statue of the titan Talos is chilling as much for what isn’t there as f...
2025-01-06 06:38:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Watching this movie makes me feel like Tony Soprano showing his daughter, Meadow, the church their ancestors helped to build on a crew of masons before grumbling, “Go out there now and try to fin...
2025-01-04 23:33:20 +0000 UTC View Post
It takes a bold creative team to step into the world of Peter Jackson’s monumental Lord of the Rings trilogy, much less to do so with an animated film. Kenji Kamiyama’s War of the ...
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Eggers’ Nosferatu is beautiful, full of sumptuous shadows and exquisitely dressed rooms. It sports an embarrassment of acting talent, with Lily-Rose Depp luminously ghoulish as the torme...
2024-12-26 08:41:32 +0000 UTC View Post
How do you write with any kind of objectivity about a film that shaped your childhood so profoundly? A Muppet Christmas Carol is the season entire, to me, a heartfelt plea for everyone to ...
2024-12-26 02:12:35 +0000 UTC View Post
You don’t usually see good fake pop music. Think of the dead-eyed, lifeless numbers in Shyamalan’s Trap from earlier this year, so non-specific they barely register as music at all, or...
2024-12-24 01:45:40 +0000 UTC View Post
“I keep these women a bit wet and a bit nippy,” says Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant), grinning with avuncular charm at Mormon missionary Sister Paxton (Chloe East) from the head of a room full of caged w...
2024-12-12 02:21:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The first blush of combat in Sergei Bondarchuk’s monumental adaptation of Tolstoy’s masterpiece is a staggering sensory experience. Thousands of uniformed soldiers maneuver onscreen, forming li...
2024-12-02 20:06:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Anchored by bravura performances by Jessica Barden as a young Valya and Emma Canning as a young Tula, ‘Sisterhood Above All’ is the series’s nastiest and most engaging episode to date. The ce...
2024-12-02 05:18:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Take Shakespeare’s Roman plays, a double handful of modern politics run through a blender on pulse for about half an hour, a dash of transcendental psychedelica, and a few decades of Dick Clark...
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Never show me Matt Lucas. There is no reason good enough to show me Matt Lucas. He radiates an anti-charisma so powerful that even casting him perfectly as the shrieking, freakish mouthpiece of a d...
2024-11-26 09:50:57 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s one thing to watch a cold and calculating power player like the Bene Gesserit mother superior, Valya Harkonnen (Emily Watson), spend human lives like subway tokens. It’s another to see her...
2024-11-25 07:51:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Star and director Louise Weard begins and ends the first half of her operatically-sized Castration Movie with broken people trying and failing to be in love. First there’s Turner (N...
2024-11-25 02:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post
All the stars are here! Mark Strong, Emily Watson, Olivia Williams, Travis Fimmell, and a half dozen more genre and period stalwarts anchor the exciting and enigmatic series premiere of Diane Ademu...
2024-11-19 01:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Take Paolo Sorrentino’s visionary, brazenly experimental The Young Pope, turn the saturation down about seventy percent so that everything looks more or less grayish brown, as is de ...
2024-11-12 04:15:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Brought to life by French animation studio Fortiche, Arcane remains in its second season easily the most beautiful animated show on the air. Hand-painted cells applied to an underlying sca...
2024-11-10 02:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostI can hear the pachys working out their morning jitters before I open my eyes. Their paddock is about twenty yards from my window, and the echoing crack when their bony skulls collide is loud enoug...
2024-10-31 18:29:48 +0000 UTC View Post
“I knew you would be beautiful… luminous,” says the injured and delirious La Môle (Vincent Perez) as he lies bleeding in his lover Margot’s (Isabelle Adjani) arms, believing her to be the ...
2024-10-17 22:12:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Alien: Romulus doesn’t work without David Jonsson as the android Andy. The synthetic person’s transformation from a shaky, well-meaning adult child who lives only to protect his surrog...
2024-10-16 07:18:03 +0000 UTC View Post
J. T. Mollner’s Strange Darling opens on a protracted monologue straight out of a Feminism 101 pamphlet, with the Lady (Willa Fitzgerald) explaining to the Demon (Kyle Gallner) that wome...
2024-10-14 02:37:18 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s a lot to like about Gary Dauberman’s ‘Salem’s Lot, an adaptation of Stephen King’s classic vampire novel of the same name. Bill Camp is tremendously likable as the caring...
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