Arts
‘Stranger Things’ season finale succeeds by leaning into excess
by Eric Deggans One of the toughest things for an established TV show to do is surprise you. →
In ‘Hawkeye,’ an also-ran Avenger becomes a mentor — eventually
by Glenn Weldon In the Marvel series Hawkeye, the stakes are low. Comfortably so. Cozily so, even. The planet isn’t in →
A Boy Aims To Save His Mom — And Himself — In ‘The War For Gloria’
by Martha Anne Toll Atticus Lish’s second novel, The War For Gloria, is an ambitious book with a lot to say about family loyalty and love. The War For Gloria follows the author’s impressive debut, Preparation for the Next Life, a heart-wrenching story of love between an Iraq war vet and an undocumented immigrant, both extremely down on →
A Disgraced Interrogator Gambles On Redemption In ‘The Card Counter’
by Justin Chang The signature Paul Schrader image is of a lonely middle-aged man nursing a glass of booze and writing in his diary, pouring out all his dark thoughts and guilty secrets. In the 1992 film Light Sleeper, it was a drug dealer having a midlife crisis. In the more recent First Reformed, it was a minister radicalized by the →
You Haven’t Read A Heist Novel Like This Before
by Jessica P. Wick A rag-tag band of criminals must come together for one last heist; of course, →
In HBO’s ‘Scenes From A Marriage,’ Acting Is Everything
by Linda Holmes It’s fitting that the best promotion for the approaching premiere of HBO’s Scenes From A Marriage was →
‘The Woman In The Window’ Locks Amy Adams Inside
by Linda Holmes The Woman In The Window has been a little … snakebit, let’s just get that out →
Ani DiFranco – 32 Flavors
Check out this week’s video featuring Ani DiFranco performing 32 flavors on McQsJazz.com →
Selena’s Legacy Lives On, In ‘Selena: The Series’ And Beyond
by Stephen Thompson and Maria Garcia Selena Quintanilla was known as the “Queen Of Tejano Music,” a major →