Colman plays Leda Caruso, a middle-aged professor of comparative literature who heads to a small seaside resort village in Greece to take some vacation time and work on a book. While there, she becomes intrigued (obsessed, really) with a young mother named Nina (Dakota Johnson), who’s vacationing there with her toddler daughter, her vaguely threatening husband and the rest of her extended, somewhat menacing family. Watching Nina and her daughter together begins to unlock memories for Leda of her own younger years as a mother and domestic partner....

The Magicians Season 3 Episode 4 “Be the Penny” has everything a good episode of The Magicians should have: plenty of pathos, a healthy dose of self-referential humor, and just the right amount of unexpectedness. Arjun Gupta has always delivered a wonderfully sardonic performance as Penny, and to see the consequences of his general disdain in the past is entertaining in the extreme. As the quest for the keys continues, it’s encouraging to realize the show can still surprise us with details like each of the keys having different powers or, of course, the amazing ending....

My Hero Academia Season 6 Episode 1 “It’s finally starting…” Seasoned My Hero Academia fans have pretty much learned to write off any season’s premiere episode since they’ve routinely been remedial recap installments that are meant to cater towards the casual audiences. Six seasons in and after more than 100 episodes, these playful recaps become increasingly difficult to cover all of the pivotal events from the series. Simultaneously, season five of My Hero Academia ended on the peak of excitement and the prospect of another premiere that begins with, “This is a superhuman society, with 80% of the population possessing some uncanny ability or power called a Quirk,” would be borderline insulting to the dedicated fans....

Season 2 follows up on season 1’s unique combination of mystery and adventure with a necessary social message. Even though Disney+ is targeting the series for preteens and teens, the show’s writers have made sure that there are plenty of strong concepts, jokes, and references adults can enjoy. “We have kids thinking of the way they’ve experienced the recent past as a relentless tide of anxiety, and how do we get to the bottom of that and how do we find ways to contend with it?...

But filmmaker John Dower (Thrilla in Manila, My Scientology Movie) will launch an investigation into the only unsolved airplane hijacking in U.S. history almost 50 years after the disappearing act. The Mystery of D.B. Cooper will be available on HBO and to stream on HBO Max on Nov. 25. The film “brings to life the stories of four individuals fervently believed by their family and friends to be the mystery man who hijacked a 727 flying out of Portland, OR, traded the passengers’ lives for $200,000 and four parachutes, leapt from 10,000 feet over some of Washington State’s roughest terrain, and was never heard from again,” reads the press statement....

Shortly after the article went live, representatives from HBO reached out to clarify that they weren’t categorizing the project as a “miniseries” as many outlets (and none other than Wikipedia itself) had reported but rather a traditional series. It seemed clear then that HBO had at least the possibility of multiple seasons in mind when it greenlit the show. After all, why wouldn’t they? Stephen King adaptations always tend to do well and The Outsider boasted a solid cast (led by Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, Paddy Considine, and Jason Bateman) and an intriguing concept true crime-meets- the-supernatural concept The Outsider would then go on to pull off 10 good episodes, receive modest-to-excellent critical acclaim, kill it in the ratings, and drive online chatter for a month or so....

I love it when I’m wrong about stuff like this. The Punisher is a pleasant surprise. Not in terms of quality (I think we all expect these Marvel Netflix shows to rise to at least a certain level these days), but in its tone and approach. Frank Castle has never been the most nuanced of characters, and it would have been easy (and for some, even appealing) to drop the character into a series of situations where he just brutally murders deserving scumbags in increasingly inventive ways....

In the pages of Marvel Comics, Shang-Chi is known as the “Master of Kung Fu.” So when Marvel Studios announced the character to help usher in MCU Phase 4, the one thought on every fan’s mind was that whoever gets cast in the lead role better really know Kung Fu. In the wake of Netflix’s Iron Fist, Marvel’s other Kung Fu master, there was a lot of skepticism. Marvel had scored with the previous Netflix series Daredevil, which delivered some of the best small screen fight choreography we’d ever seen....

The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 21 When you’re as old as either Abe Simpson or The Simpsons, your past can come back to bite you on the pickle. “Meat Is Murder” is not another platform for Lisa’s vegetarianism. The episode is an attack on the insatiable appetite of corporate greed, and all the side dishes that go with it. Using HBO’s Succession as foundation, “Meat Is Murder” features a stellar cast with the esteemed John Lithgow voicing the aging patriarch Gus, and his belovedly hostile family, Sheila voiced by Krysten Ritter, Mav (Seth Green), Jessica (Edi Patterson), Colby (Paul F....

Creator David Chase and his crack team of writers never lost sight of the essential truth that no matter how cruel, harrowing or horrid life becomes, it’s always laced through with laughs: oftentimes the laughter and the horror rise in tandem. Here, then, are some of The Sopranos’ funniest moments, most of them enmeshed with the macabre, the monstrous and the melancholy. South of the Border S1, E9 ‘Boca’ In the machismo-drenched world of the mafia, even going down on your girlfriend is seen as a sign of sexual weakness, and quite possibly – in the non-PC words of Uncle Junior himself – ‘a sign that you’re a fanouk....

There are many filmmakers these days looking back at their youths via semi-autobiographical reveries: Alfonso Cuarón and Roma; Kenneth Branagh and Belfast; and Richard Linklater Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood is to name just a few. Yet perhaps none have been so naked in their self-portraiture as Steven Spielberg’s recent effort, The Fabelmans. All of the aforementioned films rename characters and incidents, but The Fabelmans is the only one about how its protagonist grew from an early age into an undeniable filmmaking wunderkind shrouded in an air of destiny; it is also the lone entry in the emerging subgenre to happily include famous anecdotes from the director’s halcyon youth that he’s recounted in countless interviews, such as a chance encounter with the legendary Hollywood director John Ford....

Chris Pratt anchors the movie as Dan Forester, a military vet who’s settled into a quaint, somewhat unfulfilling suburban life with his wife Emmy (Betty Gilpin) and young daughter Muri (Ryan Kiera Armstrong). His job as a high school science teacher isn’t exactly stimulating, particularly for an ex-soldier, but after an extraordinary event in which a technologically advanced army from 2051 enlists the help of present-day soldiers and civilians alike to combat an extraterrestrial threat, everything changes....

The Certified Authorization Professional, often known as CAP, is a credential that can be helpful to those who work in the field of safety risk management and the Risk Management Framework (RMF). The International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) issues the Certified Advanced Practitioner (CAP) credential in Cybersecurity. (ISC)2, for those who aren’t aware of it, is a worldwide organization that operates as a non-profit and provides vendor-neutral security standards to professionals....

October 1 is a special day for The Umbrella Academy. In the show’s continuity, that is the 1989 date in which 43 women across the world suddenly gave birth despite showing no previous signs of pregnancy. Esteemed industrialist Reginald Hargreeves (Colm Feorge) tracked down seven of these children with special abilities, adopted them, and formed crime-fighting family “The Umbrella Academy.” The date has become a sort of unofficial birthday for fans....

Federal drug enforcement was created for the express purpose of persecuting Billie Holiday. Director Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday focuses a cinematic microscope on the events, but a much larger picture is visible just outside the lens. Holiday’s best friend and one-time manager Maely Dufty told mourners at the funeral that Billie was murdered by a conspiracy orchestrated by the narcotics police, according to Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari....

The Walking Dead Season 10 Episode 22 Jeffrey Dean Morgan, for the most part, has been used poorly during his time on The Walking Dead. The actor has done his best with the material he’s been given, but for entirely too long Negan was a caricature of a person, a goofy swaggering cartoon trying to sound tough but forced to dumb down his language to avoid offending network sensibilities. It was silly, and while Negan might have been a fan-favorite villain, he didn’t exactly translate well to television in spite of my affection for both the character and the actor....

The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 17 The opening moments of this week’s The Walking Dead premiere reach deeply into the show’s history, showing a selection of moments that go back to the very first moments of “Days Gone Bye” and carry forward to the current day, with Daryl clearing Walkers while attempting to hide from the show’s latest in a long line of smiling threats, Lance Hornsby (Josh Hamilton). One of the fun realizations from the cold opening is that the cavalcade of villains, from Shane Walsh through to Negan Smith, tend to be smiling more often than not, while our heroes look serious about the business of survival in a world dominated by the dead....

Plot is not always foremost on filmmakers’ agendas when it comes to horror. And while many horror films set aside plot to make room for splatter, they don’t give much attention to themes either. Themes, however, take centre stage in Robert Eggers’ painstakingly recreated 17th century New England Puritan setting − and themes are what will engage and scare you in The Witch, or at the very least set the stage right for the genuine scares the movie offers....

Robert Zemeckis’ The Witches wishes to wave a magic wand that walks this all back. Premiering today on HBO Max, the newest film from the director of Back to the Future adapts Roald Dahl’s darkest children’s story—one where, like in the fairy tales of yore, witches walk among us and really do savor in the killing of children. They can appear as sweet and well-groomed as Anne Hathaway, a former Disney princess, but inside they hide an ugliness that manifests with the wickedest of ideas and grimaces....

Knowing Hollywood, they will learn the exact wrong lessons from Maverick’s success. Instead of realizing that audiences responded to dazzling practical effects and traditional, emotional storytelling executed at a high level with no need for the smirky, ironic detachment that has become en vogue, studio executives will likely zero in on the “legacy sequel with a big star” side of the equation. It’s pretty much inevitable. Tom Cruise is certainly a huge factor in Top Gun: Maverick’s success....