NETFLIX | The Chair
At the end of the enjoyable/infuriating first episode of The Chair, I let out a little gasp when I saw the closing credit: directed by Dan...
The Fear Street movie series on Netflix may look like just another trio of teenage-slasher romps. And yeah, the murders are gleefully and gorily delivered via a...
The opening moments of SWEET TOOTH (Netflix, eight episodes) may make you think, “Too soon?” As they follow their everyday routines, people of the world start s...
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Amazon, 10 episodes) is like a symphony. Even the greatest symphonies can have thrilling passages that blaze their way into our memori...
The influences on Amazon Prime’s THEM (10 episodes) are obvious. Take a smattering of the horrors of Lovecraft Country, the national racist history at the core ...
Bo Bartlett always knew what his first feature film would be about -- he just didn't know it would take decades to make it. After putting aside directing for a ...
In his later years, Arthur Conan Doyle became a spiritualist and séance devotee, but the author’s most famous creation, the hyper-rational Sherlock Holmes, didn...
The paradox that It’s a Sin (HBO Max, five episodes) gets crushingly right is the sense of immortality that its young characters feel as they begin life in Lond...
A coin toss decided which of two Netflix limited series should top this month’s roundup. Both are dramatically convincing and, even more to their credit, both t...
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 ...
