The powerhouse film version of August Wilson's Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on gives us two of 2020’s best screen performances. One is simply her latest, the other ...
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a film version of the August Wilson drama, drops at 12:01 a.m. Friday (December 18) on Netflix. It's the first, chronologically, in th...
The songs are unmemorable in a samey-samey, upbeat way. The acting is campy and the message of the musical is obvious and secondhand -- so why did I enjoy The P...
Like Christopher Nolan, David Fincher has become a contemporary director fetishized by film lovers, while lacking the baggage of Nolan’s more annoying narrative...
In a double whammy, Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Amazon Prime’s Borat Subsequent Moviefilm prove that Sacha Baron Cohen isn’t just a funny guy, but ...
The space shuttle Challenger took off in January 1986, on a day with a sky as blue as the one that blazed 15 years later during the attacks on 9/11. It exploded...
Limited documentary series can be the best things to binge-watch in these trying times. But maybe it’s because these times are so trying that I offer this backw...
Go ahead and laugh, but for me the nicest new surprise on Netflix is the reboot of that old tween standard, The Baby-Sitters Club. Previous versions of Ann M. M...
As Covid-19 continues its march across the nation (please wear your masks, friends), eight hours in a hospital may sound exactly like the wrong way to spend you...
Though it was shot long before this spring’s global uprising against how police treat people of color, Spike Lee’s compelling but uneven Vietnam-and-brotherhood...
