The Best True-Crime Offerings to Watch on Netflix

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. How do you even begin to sort them apart? Are they all the same? And are any of them actually good? Were here to help. Here are the best true-crime series and movies currently available to watch on Netflix. Come for the verite approach to trial filming, stay forthe owl theory of the crime. There are sensational, horrific crimes....

October 6, 2017 · 2 min · 278 words · Kyle Howell

The Kennedys Are Not Going to Like the Gripping NewChappaquiddick

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This article was first published during the Toronto Film Festival. Two of those events were incredibly public, happened on camera, and changed the course of history. People under 30dont even know aboutthe Tonya HardingNancy Kerrigan incident from 1992. Why would they know about a car crash in 1969? But maybe they should. The similarities between that era of political doublespeak and this one are striking....

September 15, 2017 · 3 min · 551 words · Jasmine Daniel

Big Stars and Blow Jobs: Inside the Most Gossipy Documentary in Years

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This piece originally ran during the Toronto Film Festival. Scottys smile is huge, and so is the cock. Were there three-ways with Cary Grant and Randolph Scott? Did Bowers have hotel assignations with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor? That was on the menu, too. In the space of just two minutes, I jotted down four of those Bowers bon mots....

September 11, 2017 · 2 min · 297 words · Shawn Carter

The New Wave of Rap Violence Shouldn’t Be Ignored

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This piece was originally published on August 31, 2017. Were re-publishing it in light of XXXTentacions death. Its more than just your average jilted breakup rap. (Past honorees include J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, and Chance the Rapper. )17is presently on pace to bow out shockingly close to the top of this weeksBillboard200 chart. took clubs and concerts by siege....

August 31, 2017 · 2 min · 376 words · Adam Meyer

Fresh Off the Boat’s Nahnatchka Khan Is Directing That Ali Wong–Randall Park Rom-Com

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Now, Netflix is making it happen (youre welcome). Will Randall Park sing? *This post has been updated throughout. Sources Tags:

August 15, 2017 · 1 min · 35 words · Daniel Campbell

HowGame of ThronesHelped HBO Break Into the Streaming World

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Note: This story was originally published in July 2017. The timing of this new pact was no coincidence. Very quickly, and very easily, it became this tentpole in the digital space. Indeed, HBO linkedThronesto its digital efforts right from the start. Game of Thronesisnt the only series HBO leans on to drive digital growth, of course....

July 19, 2017 · 1 min · 170 words · Andrea Johnson

The Recent History of America Trying and Failing to Adapt British TV Comedies

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. (Dramas have been a bit more successful, as evidenced by the longevity ofHouse of CardsandShameless.) Read up about 13 of these instances below, and remember: Not everything can beThe Office. But it was a ball, it was crazy. (The pilot, which can be viewedin full here, has a palpably odd energy to it.) I was the only one dumb enough to do it....

June 16, 2017 · 2 min · 238 words · Frank Dunn

23 Unsettlingly Nice Tom Cruise Stories

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This post originally ran after the release ofThe Mummy. First things first: We get it. Theres an awful lot ofunsettling Scientologystuff(a wholelot of stuff) around Tom Cruise. On a Hollywood press tour, its a truth universally acknowledged that Tom Cruise is a super-nice dude. He was in his postHigh School Musicalphase, trying to break out of the teen-star shell....

June 15, 2017 · 5 min · 1016 words · Suzanne Carlson

The RiderIs a Lyrical Portrait of Life After the Rodeo

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This review first ran at the Cannes Film Festival. He sells his beloved horse, Gus, but cant bring himself to let go of his riding gear. Brady and his friends live in a milieu both quintessentially American and completely obscure to most 21st-century Americans. Related Tags:

May 29, 2017 · 1 min · 61 words · Todd Garcia

You Were Never Really HerePacks a Punch, But Lacks Lynne Ramsay’s Usual Poetry

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This review originally ran during the Cannes Film Festival. Its hard not to wish there were more Lynne Ramsay movies, period. Hes just finished another successful mission, but it seems theres not much in the way of job satisfaction. Its her leading man, and his connection to his adolescent charge, that feels dismayingly empty. Both are intense, capital-A artistic personas, allergic to half-measures, for better or worse....

May 27, 2017 · 1 min · 102 words · Stephen Green

How to Talk to Girls at PartiesFinds a Way to Make Punk-Rock Aliens Uncool

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This review originally ran during the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. (The aliens seem to be less into punk, more into Krautrock.) The script is frantically trying to build a whole world when a modest house would do. The concept had incredible potential, but Mitchell missed the mark by a wide margin. Luckily for Fanning and Kidman, theyre in approximately 18 other movies on the Croisette this year....

May 23, 2017 · 1 min · 82 words · Charles Miller

From the Archives: Roseanne on Her Life in Television

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. This story was originally published on May 15, 2011. Were republishing it today ahead oftheRoseannerevivals premiere. Its called losing perspective. Its hard to handle and drives you nuts. When you become No. I so admire Dave Chappelle. You did right for yourself by walking away, Dave. I consideredThe Cosby Showto be some of the greatest and most revolutionary TV ever....

May 16, 2017 · 5 min · 943 words · Patrick Miller

Your Guide to TV’s British Period Dramas, Sorted Chronologically

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Theres something inherently pleasing about a good British period drama. More a fan of the Victorian-era monarchy than 1960s detective capers? Fear not, we have all of your interests covered below. Its a male-dominant show, so were mostly gazing upon some basic, monochromatic looks for gents. (The royal jewels are pretty grand, too. and the women (bell-like silhouettes, corsets!...

November 4, 2016 · 1 min · 99 words · Dr. Jordan Lindsey