Science fiction movies have a special relationship with existential terror. The genre allows an artist to cover ground that invites a particular kind of fear. If it is a movie about space, then we are...
“Girls,” which is four episodes into its sixth and final season, is still vulnerable to a lot of the same criticism it received from the beginning. It remains a show about four privileged white girls...
The new television show “Legion,” which airs on FX on Thursdays at 10 p.m., offers incomparable narrative and visual dynamism. For a while, it felt like TV shows were constricted by their plot-oriented...
After seeing Manoj “M. Night” Shyamalan’s latest movie, “Split,” you might wonder why he had not made a movie like this earlier in his career. “Split” is not a great movie, but it is good...
Brad Baronner, Contributing Writer
• January 26, 2017
Jude Law stars as Pope Pius XIII in HBO’s new limited series “The Young Pope,” which challenges notions of conventionalism and questions social and religious morality. The opening sequence of the...
Brad Baronner, Contributing Writer
• October 27, 2016
Like most people watching TV, when last week’s “South Park” episode aired Wednesday, Oct. 26, at 10 p.m., I was watching our country’s most recent presidential debate instead. And like most people...
Brad Baronner, Contributing Writer
• October 13, 2016
Ever hear someone talk about “The Wire” like it is a high-level sociology class? I have. I have probably done it myself too. Part of what makes the show resonate is the way it fosters a conversation....
Brad Baronner, Contributing Writer
• September 15, 2016
If you don’t quite get Young Thug, everything surrounding the release of his new mixtape, “No, My Name is Jeffery,” probably feels excessive. He’s changed his name to Jeffery, his birth name, for...
