TV Review: AMC's 'Loaded'
"Loaded" tells the story of what happens after a small London gaming startup is bought out by a huge American corporation, making the four co-founders — who, are at the age of about 30, more or less…
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Review: Coldplay’s ‘Kaleidoscope’ EP
The term “EP” may officially stand for Extended Play, but it's more of an Expectant Pause or a stopgap release for an artist who’s marking time, waiting for the muse or a sense of direction to…
Film Review: ‘Blind’
Twenty-one years after "The Juror," Baldwin and Moore aren't a star pairing whose reprise anyone was clamoring for, and "Blind" won't stir any great excitement on its own.
Film Review: ‘Misfortune’
"Misfortune" is what it is, a small-budget neo-noir so generic that one half-expects to see a bar code rather than closing credits at the end. Chief among its few distinguishing characteristics: Seth…
Off Broadway Review: Oscar Isaac in ‘Hamlet’
Oscar Isaac’s Hamlet is to die for, but director Sam Gold’s bizarre “Hamlet” is to shoot on sight. Shakespeare has always been an accommodating chap; whatever interpretative indignities directors…
Karlovy Vary Film Review: 'Centaur'
Beneath a stunning turquoise and tangerine late-evening sky, a man sneaks up to an outhouse where a guard is relieving himself and locks him in. The literal thief in the night then slips into a…
Film Review: ‘Wish Upon’
By any normal standards, teen horror pic "Wish Upon" is a pretty bad movie. But its badness is of such a distinct and kooky character that it can't help but exert an inadvertent charm. Anyone looking…
TV Review: 'Hooten & the Lady' on the CW
If "Hooten & the Lady" feels somewhat predictable at times, that's because it is. That's not a knock on the series, though, because it knows it. In fact, that's a major part of its appeal. The…
TV Review: ‘Salvation’ on CBS
There's a point in "Salvation," CBS' newest summer sci-fi offering, where one of the series' two geniuses runs down all the obstacles that currently stand in the way of them saving all of humanity…
Film Review: ‘Girls Trip’
Newcomer Tiffany Haddish steals a comedy that gives four black women the chance to indulge in the kind of raunchy, R-rated antics typically reserved for the boys.
TV Review: Netflix's 'Ozark,' Starring Jason Bateman and Laura Linney
Playing Michael Bluth was a lot harder than it looked. As the lead of "Arrested Development," Jason Bateman had to be a despicable straight man with delusions of his own goodness and sympathetic, as…
