Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die has all the parts to make a terrific film – a stellar cast, a smart and resilient indie director, and a cinematically literate tale about the undead that should appease fans of George ...
Though the latest film based on the parent murderer and Fall River, Massachusetts native Lizzie Borden attempts to frame itself as a thriller, it’s a much more complicated and nuanced tale of death than the sensationalists w...
Most of the dramas I saw at Sundance this year either revolved around high concepts or were set in scenarios that would obviously result in tension. As such, the small, character-driven ‘Golden Exits’ was a breath of f...
There’s nothing more appropriate for summer movie counterprogramming than a film by Whit Stillman. The ’90s indie darling behind ‘Metropolitan‘ and ‘Barcelona‘ specializes in small films driven ...
In a trend that only started last year, the producers of ‘American Horror Story’ decided that all of the wildly different seasons of the show need to tie together as if they all took place in the same continuity. While...
The fifth season of ‘American Horror Story’, subtitled ‘Hotel’, is the show’s first without star Jessica Lange presiding over the bacchanalia of weirdness. In her place steps another diva, the musicia...
Considering all the violence, gore, perversion and depravity on display in any typical episode of ‘American Horror Story’, is it really possible that incorporating a real (and important) historical figure into the stor...
So, if I have this right, despite getting stabbed repeatedly in the chest, Adam Levine wasn’t killed off in the previous episode of ‘American Horror Story’, but he does get killed off this week? Maybe. This show ...
I think I made clear last year that ‘American Horror Story’ was my favorite new show of 2011. Yet I still find myself approaching the second season with trepidation for a couple of reasons. First, a concept like this d...
Although I haven’t been recapping this fifth and final season of ‘Big Love’ here in the blog since the premiere episode back in January, don’t take that as a sign of disinterest. It’s just that there&...
