Netflix series Chimp Crazy lives up to both parts of its title
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Like many people — probably too many people — I binged Tiger King in its entirety when it arose as a short-lived cultural behemoth during …
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Netflix’s Mr. McMahon is the docu-series we need — and deserve — right now
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s an unsettling experience to watch the brand-new, hotly anticipated and much-discussed Netflix docu-series Mr. McMahon, which takes viewers on a sweeping, insider-y journey …
Unfrosted is not grrreat!
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Watching Jerry Seinfeld’s new movie Unfrosted, which is supposed to be a comedic counterhistory of the invention of the Pop-Tart, I’m reminded of an …
Curiously strong
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When future cultural excavators opine on the finest films of the early 21st century, it is certain that Pan’s Labyrinth, from Mexican director Guillermo …
Shades of gray
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
The ironies and contradictions in Passing, a 2021 Netflix film based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, are apparent from the outset.
The …
True Crime
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Aristotle thought long and hard about the nature of wickedness — specifically, the moral nature of ill deeds performed knowingly or unknowingly. In his Nicomachean …
A Regency treat
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
As a child of the Shonda Rhimes era of network television, I am always willing to give anything she puts her name to a try.…
Grand mastery
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When a lot of people like something, it’s typically wise to give it a wide berth until evidence suggests otherwise. Suffice to say, succumbing to …
Through a glass (not so) darkly
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Read enough reviews of the recently-released, hotly-anticipated Netflix series “Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” and some central themes emerge.
First, it’s visually amazing. The prequel/reboot/obsessive …
Forget Netflix, watch ‘Austin Powers’ on the Panida big screen
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
If you’ve noticed a lot more Netflix ads on Facebook touting films like “Austin Powers,” it’s not your social media algorithm offering up those pitches. …
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