Netflix series Chimp Crazy lives up to both parts of its title
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Like many people — probably too many people — I binged Tiger King in its entirety when it arose as a short-lived cultural behemoth during …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Like many people — probably too many people — I binged Tiger King in its entirety when it arose as a short-lived cultural behemoth during …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s an unsettling experience to watch the brand-new, hotly anticipated and much-discussed Netflix docu-series Mr. McMahon, which takes viewers on a sweeping, insider-y journey …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Watching Jerry Seinfeld’s new movie Unfrosted, which is supposed to be a comedic counterhistory of the invention of the Pop-Tart, I’m reminded of an …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When future cultural excavators opine on the finest films of the early 21st century, it is certain that Pan’s Labyrinth, from Mexican director Guillermo …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
The ironies and contradictions in Passing, a 2021 Netflix film based on the 1929 novel by Nella Larsen, are apparent from the outset.
The …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Aristotle thought long and hard about the nature of wickedness — specifically, the moral nature of ill deeds performed knowingly or unknowingly. In his Nicomachean …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
As a child of the Shonda Rhimes era of network television, I am always willing to give anything she puts her name to a try.…
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
When a lot of people like something, it’s typically wise to give it a wide berth until evidence suggests otherwise. Suffice to say, succumbing to …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Read enough reviews of the recently-released, hotly-anticipated Netflix series “Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” and some central themes emerge.
First, it’s visually amazing. The prequel/reboot/obsessive …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
If you’ve noticed a lot more Netflix ads on Facebook touting films like “Austin Powers,” it’s not your social media algorithm offering up those pitches. …
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