TV & Movie

‘Death And Other Details’ Review: Hulu’s Lavish Whodunit Is A Maze

‘Death And Other Details’ Review: Hulu’s Lavish Whodunit Is A Maze

Hulu’s “Death and Other Details” is a murder mystery about powerful families and generations of secrets. Fast-paced and complex, the series ebbs and flows between delightful chaos and complete bewilderment. Yet, despite the uneven pacing and other missteps, the whodunit of it all should keep audiences interested. The show, which was created by Mike Weiss and Heidi Cole McAdams, opens …

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‘Painkiller’ Review: Netflix Series Fails To Capture Opioid Crisis

'Painkiller’ Review: Netflix Series Fails To Capture Opioid Crisis

While Fentanyl now dominates headlines as the drug wreaking havoc on our society, back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was OxyContin that led conversations about the impact of overprescribed opioids. Formulated, produced, marketed and sold by the family-run organization Purdue Pharma, Oxy quickly grew in popularity because it was marketed as a safe, “non-addictive” opioid. Oxy was …

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‘A Friend of the Family’ Review: ‘Abducted in Plain Sight’ Adaptation

'A Friend of the Family' Review: 'Abducted in Plain Sight' Adaptation

In Peacock’s true-crime drama “A Friend of the Family,” Bob Broberg (Colin Hanks) pleads with his wife Mary Ann (Anna Paquin) to help him understand her egregious lapse in judgment. “Don’t you have better sense? It doesn’t make any sense…why would you do such a thing?” Those also happen to be the questions bandied about on Twitter when “Abducted in …

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‘The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart’ Review: Amazon Drama Drags

In “The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart,” the namesake plants have multiple meanings. After a fire takes the lives of both of her parents in coastal Australia, nine-year-old Alice (Alyla Browne) moves to Thornfield, a secluded wildflower farm run by her estranged grandmother June (Sigourney Weaver). But Thornfield is more than just a source a native flora; “flowers” are also …

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‘XO, Kitty’ Review: Jenny Han Keeps The ‘To All The Boys’ Fun Going

'XO, Kitty' Review: Jenny Han Keeps The 'To All The Boys' Fun Going

Katherine Song Covey (Anna Cathcart), aka Kitty, is a Gen Z dream. Since she was introduced six years ago in the “To All The Boys I Loved Before” trilogy, the precocious younger sister to Laura Jean (Lana Condor) and Margot (Janel Parrish) has walked to her own beat. Steadfast, determined and slightly nosey, Kitty’s incessant meddling helped connect LJ to …

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‘Loki’ Season 2 Review: Marvel’s Slump Continues

'Loki' Season 2 Review: Marvel's Slump Continues

Time travel is impossible in real life, but it’s also pretty difficult to pull off in fiction, where a nifty plot device can too easily devolve into a tangled nest of convoluted exposition. The first season of “Loki” avoided this problem, making the Disney+ show a bright spot in a somewhat stagnant era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In following …

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‘Rookie: Feds’ Review: Niecy Nash-Betts Elevates Spinoff

'Rookie: Feds' Review: Niecy Nash-Betts Elevates Spinoff

To be a network police or medical procedural in the past decade is to want for a companion series. From there, the goal is to crawl kudzu-like across the schedule until the primetime grid is bespeckled with colons and occasionally clogged with three-hour crossover events. Still, ABC’s “The Rookie,” now in its fifth season, has never seemed an obvious choice …

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‘Murder in Big Horn’ Review: Showtime Docuseries About MMIW

‘Murder in Big Horn’ Review: Showtime Docuseries About MMIW

There are thousands of murdered and missing Indigenous women (MMIW) across the United States and Canada, and in Montana those numbers are particularly high. Over the past decade, dozens of young Indigenous women and girls from the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Nations have disappeared from Big Horn County, MT and the surrounding area. More often than not, those disappearances go …

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The White Lotus Season 2 Review: HBO’s Emmy Smash Goes to Italy

The White Lotus Season 2 Review: HBO's Emmy Smash Goes to Italy

For as much money and effort as she spends pretending that White Lotus hotels are the luxurious safe havens she so craves, Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) nonetheless sees them for what they truly are. “What a beautiful view!” she coos at the cliffside Sicilian seascape greeting her upon arrival. Then, in practically the same breath: “I wonder if anyone’s jumped from …

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 ‘Echo’ Disney Plus Review: Another Marvel Misfire

 ‘Echo’ Disney Plus Review: Another Marvel Misfire

Typically, the narratives comprising our origin story begin long before birth, often stretching back generations and centuries, linking us with ancestors we will never know and places we might never visit. For Maya Lopez, aka Echo (Alaqua Cox), the deadly former leader of Wilson Fisk’s (Vincent D’Onofrio) Tracksuit Mafia gang, her rise started well in advance of her introduction in …

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