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‘Run’: Merritt Wever Is The MVP In HBO’s Frisky Tryst Series From Vicky Jones & Phoebe Waller-Bridge [Review]

April 9, 2020 2:15 pm

In the hyper-connected modern world of everyone extremely online, the one that got away is an obsolete concept. He/she/they is perhaps only just one text message away and perhaps just one step away from daring...

‘Run’ Trailer: Domhnall Gleeson & Merritt Wever Run Away Together In HBO’s New Series

Charles Barfield

March 20, 2020 12:06 pm

News, Television, Trailers

Maybe it’s just in movies and TV shows or it’s actually something that real people do, but you’re probably aware of the idea of marriage/love pacts between friends. Y’know, something along the lines of, “If we...

‘Run’ Trailer: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Latest Series Hits HBO This April

Valerie Thompson

February 14, 2020 12:45 pm

News, Television, Trailers

HBO’s ‘’Run’’ is another in a long line of woman-who-needs-saving-from-dreadful-life stories. For this series, however, a text-based twist gives her the push to somehow move. Of course, it just happens to be a ...

‘Unbelievable’: Kaitlyn Dever Delivers A Stunning Performance In New Netflix Sexual Assault Drama [Review]

Steven Allison

September 14, 2019 1:09 pm

News, Television

Since its earliest venture into true crime, Netflix has hooked viewers on the world’s most perplexing cases. The details of these—from the mysterious fire poker of “The Staircase” fame to the shocking abuse of ...

‘Marriage Story’: Noah Baumbach Memorializes Divorce In Devastatingly Heartbreaking, Funny, Alive Drama [Venice Review]

Rodrigo Perez

August 29, 2019 1:21 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

“Somebody crowd me with love. Somebody force me to care,” Adam Driver sings, practically sneers, at a pivotal moment in filmmaker Noah Baumbach’s blistering new divorce drama, “Marriage Story,” his voice hemorr...

‘Marriage Story’ Companion Trailers: Noah Baumbach Shows Both Sides Of A Divorce With Scarlett Johansson & Adam Driver

Harry Frazer

August 20, 2019 11:00 am

News, Trailers

Did you know that about 50% of American marriages end in divorce? Well, ‘Marriage Story’ will showcase the struggle of going through one across the country. Written and directed by Noah Baumbach ("Margot At The...

‘Unbelievable’ Trailer: Toni Collette & Merritt Wever Are On The Hunt For A Serial Rapist In New Netflix Drama Series

Charles Barfield

July 18, 2019 11:18 am

News, Television, Trailers

Another day, another trailer for an upcoming Netflix series that you probably didn’t know existed but suddenly you have to see immediately. Today, that series is “Unbelievable.” As seen in the trailer for “U...

‘Charlie Says’: Mary Harron’s Look At Charles Manson’s Family Of Women Lacks A Sharp Edge [Tribeca Review]

Kimber Myers

May 3, 2019 1:03 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Director Mary Harron is best known for bringing one of fiction's most notorious killers to the screen with Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho," and now she's focusing on one of the real world's most infamous v...

Toni Collette To Star In Series From ‘The Kids Are All Right’ Director About Controversial Rape Case

Charles Barfield

June 25, 2018 12:27 pm

News, Television

There’s a lot of buzz surrounding Toni Collette right now. The actress stars in the new film, “Hereditary,” which is drawing immense praise and early awards talk, and rightfully so. Collette owns every frame th...

The Best Performances Of 2017

Oliver Lyttelton and Jessica Kiang

December 20, 2017 2:44 pm

Features, News

You don’t need great performances for a great movie, we suppose — Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s mesmerizing 2016 documentary/art piece “Homo Sapiens,” for instance, doesn’t feature a single human being on screen and is...

Netflix’s ‘Godless’ Is The Best Western Of 2017 [Bingeworthy™ Breakdown]

Rodrigo Perez

November 15, 2017 1:36 pm

News, Reviews, Television

After “The Punisher,” and “Stranger Things” “Alias Grace,” and “Mindhunter,” Netflix is on a serious roll of quality programming and therefore the Bingeworthy™ Breakdown is back and busier than ever. This we...

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