Television
Alabama Snake is crazy, but it also provides the kind of off-kilter insights into humanity one finds in the best of Southern folklore
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We were driven indoors and told to stay there, so we turned to our screens for entertainment.
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a stellar artistic accomplishment, a blazingly powerful dramatic experience.
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The series’ inspirational message comes at a good time in our crisis-ridden country, but its focus on reassurance isn’t very dramatically compelling.
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“I don’t want to show myself because I don’t think I’m very interesting to look at. The world is filled with so many other interesting things to look at.”
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The new Animaniacs provides no good reason for reviving Yakko, Wakko, and Dot in the 21st century.
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The spooky adventures in this Netflix/Egyptian produced series are entertaining enough to deserve a second season.
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In this brilliant series, documentary filmmaker John Wilson captures the absurdity of life in New York.
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Sacha Baron Cohen uncovers enough destructive inanity in Borat II to justify the savagery of its satire of American ignorance.
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In the end, The Trial of the Chicago 7 strikes a reasonable balance between historical document and cinematic art.
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