This month’s mix of titles leaving Netflix in the United States include two coming-of-age comedy dramas, a twisty thriller throwback, a wrenching Holocaust documentary and two uproarious comedies (one of them smuggled...
Read moreIt is 1970 and the almost-12-year-old Margaret Simon returns from summer camp to boxes strewn about her family’s jammed New York City apartment. Why? Because she and her parents are moving to...
Read moreFilm directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the magic, motives and the mistakes from behind the camera.Film directors walk viewers through one scene of their movies, showing the...
Read moreThe creator of “A Black Lady Sketch Show” has achieved a number of comedy “firsts,” but she prefers to focus on who’s next and how she can help them get there.
Read more“Polite Society” is an action caper filled with martial arts battles and secret lairs. It’s a romance in which two smart, impossibly attractive people fall in love. It’s a Jane Austen-esque comedy...
Read moreMark Stewart, the incendiary frontman of the British post-punk band the Pop Group, whose explosive mix of funk, noise rock, free jazz experimentalism and anti-authoritarian rage made a mockery of the group’s...
Read moreThe closely watched music copyright trial involving Ed Sheeran, who was accused of copying his Grammy-winning ballad “Thinking Out Loud” from Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On,” has wrapped up its...
Read moreDear listeners,On Wednesday night, I witnessed something that I never expected to see: a live performance by the mysterious British vocalist and producer Jai Paul.Paul’s music — full of glitches, strangely compressed...
Read moreOn his third major label album, “Jackman,” Jack Harlow leans away from the lithe boasts that shaped “Come Home the Kids Miss You,” his 2022 breakthrough LP. Instead, he pivots to issues...
Read more‘The Trip to Greece’ (2020)Stream it on Hulu.The most unlikely film franchise this side of Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy, the decade-long “Trip” series began as a feature film recut from a six-part...
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