Photo: Netflix Warning: Deep spoilers for The Lincoln Lawyer’s season-three finale lie ahead. Oh, Lincoln Lawyer fans (what do we call ourselves? Lincoln Logs? I’m workshopping that), are we served up a juicy little case for Mickey Haller’s third outing or what? Season two of David E. Kelley and Ted Humphrey’s adaptation of Michael Connelly’s …
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Photo: Apple TV+ In the second episode of Shrinking season two, Jimmy (Jason Segel) — a therapist who sets so few boundaries between his patients and himself that one even lives with him — accuses his colleague Paul (Harrison Ford) of being too professionally rigid. “You’re like a mental-health robot,” Jimmy says, and starts …
Photo: Mat Hayward/Getty Images for The Latinx House How do you write like you’re running out of time? After the success of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda went on a songwriting streak, contributing to the soundtracks of movies like Moana, Encanto, and The Little Mermaid. He did write lyrics for this year’s production of New York, …
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Photo: Lindsey Normington This article originally published in May 2024, along with our review of the movie’s premiere at Cannes. We’re republishing it ahead of Anora’s theatrical release in the U.S. (You can read more about the leads of the movie here and here.) Critics at Cannes are rightly gushing over Mikey Madison’s breakout …
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Photo: Vulture; Photo: Sonja Flemming/CBS This article contains spoilers for the CBS reboot of Matlock. CBS chief marketing officer Mike Benson has spent the last 18 months obsessing over Matlock — or, to be more precise, how to sell 2024 audiences on the Eye’s new reboot of the Andy Griffith-led legal mystery. Normally, hyping the …
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Photo: Courtesy of TIFF This Month’s Critic’s Picks 🎟️⭐ Woman of the Hour Actor-turned-directors are also so hot right now. Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut is based on a real serial killer’s stint on a game show in the ‘70s. (Streaming October 18.) More October highlights: ➽ Love Is Blind, season 7 — There’s nothing …
Photo: Bleecker Street Media/Everett Collection Cate Blanchett might be one of the world’s great actresses and a huge movie star, but she’s also not one to shy away from the perverse and experimental. With her starring role in Rumours, directed by Canadian filmmaking legend Guy Maddin and his regular collaborators Galen and Evan Johnson, …
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Photo: Anne Marie Fox/Disney I’ll admit that over the years, my Grey’s loyalty has occasionally faltered. The ghost sex, the cursed Teddy-Owen-Tom love triangle, Maggie’s entire cousin plotline … we’ve all questioned our loyalty once or twice. But here’s the thing about Grey’s Anatomy, the thing that will keep me coming back until TV …
Causeway Films This post is updated regularly as movies leave and enter Netflix. *New additions are indicated with an asterisk. With hundreds of films from around the world on the streaming giant that changed the game, how does one even know what to watch when they fire up their Netflix? Start here! We’ve gone …
Photo: Leah Gallo/Netflix Anna Kendrick’s new Netflix true-crime film Woman of the Hour relives a haunting true-crime story, but the real-life Rodney Alcala, a.k.a. “the Dating Game killer,” was more terrifying than the film lets on. In her directorial debut, which premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, Kendrick plays Cheryl Bradshaw, who …
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