TV amp; Movies Reviews

Maybe it’s a sign of times that Harrison Ford is sharing a screen with a digital dog. Why use a real canine when a computer can make certain that a pixelated pup performs according to SAG rules and not his actual nature? You can hear the voices of future filmmakers, …

Early in the Season Two premiere of Hulu’s Shrill, Aidy Bryant‘s Annie bursts into the living room of boyfriend Ryan (Luka Jones) and screams, “I’m a fuckin’ bitch, and I love it!!!!” That scene takes place minutes after the show’s Season One conclusion, where alt-weekly writer Annie confronted an online …

Ah, corporate team-building exercises — those games and group activities designed to help you and your officemates become a better, stronger, more-productive-in-the-fiscal-year’s-third-quarter squad! Most bosses would settle for organizing a few trust walks or maybe an afternoon of blindfolded egg races and human knots; if you’re Lucy Vanderton (Demi Moore), …

There’s something about Tye Sheridan. Adopted early on by indie and/or iconoclastic filmmakers like Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life), Jeff Nichols (Mud) and David Gordon Green (Joe), he played fresh-faced innocents on the cusp of receiving wisdom or being irrevocably warped. Spielberg gave him a shot at leading-man heroics …

Since he made a dynamite screen debut at 14 in Billy Elliot as a boy from a harsh British mining town who finds himself through the unlikely route of ballet, Jamie Bell has been crushing it as an actor in projects as diverse as Undertow, The Adventures of Tintin, Snowpiercer …

Gender bias gets knocked backwards on its ass in this rousing doc named after the first ship crewed by an all-female team in the Whitbread Round the World Race. The year was 1989, when male chauvinists were dripping with disbelief that these “girls” could survive a nine-month yacht race, much …

Please, not another teen coming-of-age movie! That was your first thought, right? Hold your contempt. Booksmart changes the game and opens the genre up to greater possibilities. Directed by the actor Olivia Wilde in a smashing feature debut, this femcentric spin on Freaks and Geeks is high on girl power. …

It probably does Netflix’s new cartoon buddy-comedy Tuca & Bertie no initial favors to point out that it was created by BoJack Horseman producer Lisa Hanawalt. Both shows are set in universes populated by anthropomorphized animals(*) — our heroines here are a loud and reckless toucan (Tiffany Haddish) and an …

Move over, Captain Marvel, there’s a new female superhero in town. Fast Color doesn’t have the budget, the FX bells-and-whistles or even the inclination to take on the Brie Larson MCU blockbuster. But the tightly-focused origin story of Ruth, played with ferocity and feeling by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, is still one …