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Jack Reacher is usually very good at deciding whether someone is lying to him. Lila Hoth makes that talent considerably less useful. The mysterious Indonesian woman enters Season 4 with a sympathetic story about leukemia, a missing biological father and Pentagon employee Anna Merrick, only for Reacher to discover that almost every personal detail she…
Ben Merrick barely appears in the opening mystery of Reacher Season 4, yet by the time Episode 3 ends, his absence may be one of its most alarming loose ends. Anna Merrick’s brother Jacob initially treats Ben’s silence as unusual but not necessarily catastrophic. College students miss calls, football players disappear into their own lives,…
Lila Hoth enters Reacher Season 4 with the kind of story Jack Reacher has difficulty ignoring. She says she has leukemia, needs to locate her biological father for a bone marrow match, and believes Congressman John Sampson is that man. Anna Merrick was supposedly helping her prove it before dying on the Philadelphia subway. By…
Insidious: Out of the Further makes the franchise’s biggest cast change since Insidious: Chapter 3. The Lambert family is no longer at the center of the haunting. Instead, the sixth movie introduces Gemma, a single mother with an unusual connection to The Further, while retaining Lin Shaye’s Elise Rainier as the link to everything that…
The Insidious franchise is leaving the Lambert family behind, but it certainly has not finished with The Further. Directed by Jacob Chase, Insidious: Out of the Further introduces Gemma, played by Amelia Eve, a young mother raising her daughter in the house where she grew up. Gemma discovers that she can enter The Further, the…
The war for the Iron Throne is no longer building toward disaster after House of the Dragon Season 3. Disaster has arrived. Tumbleton is burning, Rhaenyra has become increasingly ruthless in King’s Landing, Ulf has abandoned any meaningful allegiance, and Aegon II has unexpectedly reunited with Aemond. HBO has already confirmed that Season 4 will…
Ted Lasso spent the Season 4 premiere deciding whether Richmond could still be home. “Curiouser and Curiouser!” wastes little time answering the practical side of that question. Ted is back at AFC Richmond, but the club he remembers has moved on, the women’s team has been surviving on scraps, and assistant coach Alice Chilton is…
Olivia Wilde’s The Invite turns an ordinary dinner invitation into an increasingly uncomfortable examination of marriage, sex and the private resentments couples learn to hide. Seth Rogen and Wilde play Joe and Angela, a San Francisco couple whose relationship has settled into near-constant friction, while Penélope Cruz and Edward Norton play their seemingly more adventurous…
Joe and Angela spend most of The Invite behaving like two people who have forgotten why they chose each other. Their dinner with Piña and Hawk strips away the excuses until both admit that staying together for their daughter, Maggie, may no longer be enough. They even seem ready to end the marriage. Then Joe…
Hallmark’s Absolutely Devoted to You gets its hook from a wonderfully specific bit of 1990s nostalgia: what happens when a television producer tries to drag a long-retired boy band back into the spotlight? Kimberley Sustad leads the romantic comedy as Kaitlin Thompson, a morning-show producer whose hopes for an executive producer promotion depend on reuniting…
Getting a beloved 1990s boy band back together sounds like a strong television stunt. For Kaitlin Thompson, it is also the idea that could finally earn her a promotion. Hallmark’s Absolutely Devoted to You follows the ambitious morning-show producer as she tries to reunite the fictional group Absolutely Yeah! for a summer beach event. Three…
Nancy Putkoski is Anthony Bourdain’s first wife and the real person portrayed by Emilia Jones in Tony. She and Bourdain were high school sweethearts and were married from 1985 to 2005, as documented in The New Yorker’s interviews with them. Their relationship extended far beyond the single Provincetown summer shown in the film. Tony changes…
