McQueen: Widows (2018)
Along with American Animals, Ocean’s Eight and Logan Lucky, Steve McQueen’s Widows marks the waning of the heist film in American culture. Typically, the heist genre [...]
November 2018
Bertino: The Monster (2016)
Bryan Bertino’s The Monster is about a young girl, Lizzy (Ella Ballentine), and her mother, Kathy (Zoe Kazan), whose car breaks down on a rainy night in the middle of the [...]
Davies: Sunset Song (2015)
Terence Davies’ first film since The Deep Blue Sea is Sunset Song, an adaptation of the first part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair trilogy, a staple of Scottish [...]
Schitt’s Creek (CBC) (2015-2018)
One of the more underrated sitcoms of the last couple of years, Schitt’s Creek revolves around a wealthy Canadian family who lose everything, and are forced to relocate to [...]
Davies: A Quiet Passion (2016)
With A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies has possibly made the perfect film about Emily Dickinson – a film that doesn’t claim to be a total adaptation of her life and work, [...]
Killing Eve (BBC America) (2018)
Based on Luke Jennings’ Codename Villanelle series, and adapted for the screen by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Killing Eve plays as a comic and irreverent riposte to the way in [...]
Corporate (Comedy Central) (2018)
While workplace comedies abound in American film and television, comedies about corporate life, or about the daily workings of a corporation, are less common. No doubt, the [...]
American Vandal: Season 2 (Netflix) (2018)
The second season of American Vandal is even more complex and sophisticated than the first. It also sits even more precipitously on the nexus between true crime parody and [...]
American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace (FX) (2018)
In some ways, the second season of American Crime Story is even more ambitious than the first, drawing upon Maureen Orth’s book Vulgar Favors to detail the life and crimes [...]
Divorce (HBO) (2016-2018)
Over the last ten years, the waning of whiteness and the waning of the romantic comedy have tended to go hand in hand in Hollywood cinema – or, rather, the romantic comedy [...]