Mike Flanagan’s “Carrie” begins with a supernatural ability audiences have associated with Carrie White for more than 50 years: telekinesis. Summer H. Howell’s Carrie can move objects without touching them, and her control becomes increasingly powerful as she learns that the strange incidents surrounding her are not accidents or divine punishment. By the end of…
Mike Flanagan’s “Carrie” begins with a supernatural ability audiences have associated with Carrie White for more than 50 years: telekinesis. Summer H. Howell’s Carrie can move objects without touching them, and her control becomes increasingly powerful as she learns that the strange incidents surrounding her are not accidents or divine punishment. By the end of…
Netflix’s Less of a Stranger, originally titled Mniej obcy, is built around a musician whose name may be unfamiliar to many international viewers but carries enormous weight in Polish rock. Mikołaj Bukrewicz plays Jan Borysewicz, the guitarist and songwriter whose determination to make music eventually leads to the creation of Lady Pank. The film moves…
Netflix’s Who Is Martin Mull? carries an unusual second story behind the one unfolding on screen. The documentary celebrates Martin Mull’s career as a comedian, musician, actor and painter, but it also represents one of the final creative projects of Bob Saget, who began filming Mull years before either man’s passing. What started as Saget’s…
Netflix’s Who Is Martin Mull? is built around a question that sounds simple until the documentary begins trying to answer it. Martin Mull was recognizable to several generations as a comedian and actor, from Fernwood 2 Night and Clue to Roseanne, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Arrested Development, but those credits only explain part of…
‘Love Is Blind: Netherlands’ enters a very different phase in Episodes 6 through 8, as the romantic escape of Zanzibar gives way to ordinary life and increasingly serious conversations about marriage. Once the couples return home, questions about work, money, family approval, communication and physical chemistry become impossible to avoid. Several relationships that survived the…
‘Love Is Blind: Netherlands’ begins Episode 6 with Yasemin and Roel facing a problem that has become increasingly difficult to ignore. Their emotional connection inside the pods had been strong enough for Roel to propose, but meeting in person did not deepen the relationship in the way Yasemin hoped. She kept waiting for romantic attraction…
Mirella and Gino’s relationship does not fall apart because of one explosive argument, which makes their ending considerably quieter than some of the other breakups in ‘Love Is Blind: Netherlands.’ The problem is more fundamental: Mirella believes their engagement deserves greater effort, while Gino gradually realizes that his romantic feelings are not growing. Their time…
Less of a Stranger spends much of its story showing Jan Borysewicz fighting anyone who attempts to decide what his life should look like. His father doubts music can provide him with a future, the political system places limits on artistic freedom, and the music business eventually presents its own demands once Lady Pank becomes…
Love of Your Life follows Maya through almost a decade of romance, grief and reinvention, and director Rachel Morrison makes the changing places around her part of that journey. Margaret Qualley leads the Amazon MGM Studios drama as Maya, a Boston emergency room nurse whose chance meeting with Charlie, played by Gabriel Basso, opens her…
Signora Volpe has always made its Italian setting feel like more than attractive scenery. Emilia Fox stars as Sylvia Fox, a former British intelligence officer who arrives in Italy for her niece’s wedding and gradually trades London for a quieter life in Umbria. Quiet, however, proves relative. Missing people, old secrets and suspicious deaths repeatedly…
CBS’s Cupertino takes its name from one of the most famous cities in Silicon Valley, but the legal drama was largely created on the opposite side of the country. Mike Colter stars as Michael Price, a lawyer who turns against the technology industry after being denied the stock options he believes he is owed. Rachel…
Rob Savage’s Other Mommy turns an ordinary family home into the center of a deeply unsettling supernatural story. Jessica Chastain plays Ursula as well as the entity that takes on her appearance, while Arabella Olivia Clark stars as eight-year-old Bela, the child who begins communicating with the figure she calls Other Mommy. Jay Duplass plays…
