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Antonio Banderas’ Chef is exactly the kind of person a young Anthony Bourdain seems destined to meet in Tony: demanding, worldly, unimpressed by swagger and serious about the discipline required to survive a professional kitchen. That makes him feel like one of the movie’s most obviously biographical characters. Chef does have a real-life foundation, but…
Alys Rivers has always seemed slightly out of place in House of the Dragon. Daemon hears and sees things around her that nobody else seems able to explain, Aemond finds her almost impossible to intimidate, and Harrenhal itself behaves less like a castle than something with a memory. Season 3 finally gives those oddities a…
For most of The Beach House Murders, Sarah Brewer has one terrible certainty hanging over her life: her ex-husband Miles attacked her, nearly killed her and went to prison for it. Then an obsessive stalker appears at her beach house and casually blows that certainty apart by claiming he was responsible for the assault. Sarah…
A24’s Tony introduces Anthony Bourdain long before the television shows, bestselling books and globe-spanning food adventures that made him famous. Dominic Sessa plays him at 19, drifting into Provincetown, Massachusetts, and discovering that the restaurant kitchen may suit him better than the literary future he imagines for himself. Yes, Tony is based on a true…
A24’s Tony ends by giving its 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain (Dominic Sessa) something he has spent most of the summer avoiding: responsibility. After the Flagship is damaged by fire, Tony and Sal organize a beach cookout supposedly to raise money for Chef, although their original plan is to pocket the proceeds themselves. Tony backs out of…
Anthony Bourdain eventually became a chef, writer and traveler who seemed incapable of staying in one place for long, but Tony is interested in the period before all of that. Matt Johnson’s A24 film follows a 19-year-old Bourdain during a formative summer in Provincetown, when he arrives on Cape Cod without much direction and stumbles…
The most suspicious thing Gregory does in The Strangers: Chapter 2 is leave. Maya has barely started feeling safe inside Nurse Danica’s house when Gregory (Gabriel Basso) begins probing her about the attack, disappears before the violence begins, and somehow avoids the massacre that follows. The film stops short of pulling Scarecrow’s mask off, but…
The Strangers: Chapter 2 spends most of its running time keeping Maya Lucas (Madelaine Petsch) in the same miserable position she occupied in the first film: wounded, isolated and reacting to killers who always seem to arrive one step ahead of her. The finale finally changes that equation. Maya not only survives another night in…
2 Hearts begins as two romances that seem to have very little to do with each other. College freshman Chris Gregory falls for fellow student Sam, while years earlier Jorge, a man who has lived with serious lung disease since childhood, meets flight attendant Leslie. The connection between those couples eventually turns the film from…
2 Hearts looks, at first, like two separate romances unfolding at different points in time. College freshman Chris meets Sam and begins imagining a future he had not expected, while years earlier, Jorge, a Cuban exile living with a serious lung condition, falls for flight attendant Leslie. Lance Hool’s romantic drama gradually reveals why those…
Helaena’s finished embroidery in the House of the Dragon Season 3 finale is not simply a record of the war. Its final images reveal that Helaena has been sewing her dragon dreams into cloth, including her own death and a disturbing vision of Rhaenyra on the Iron Throne surrounded by fire, dragons and suffering. The…
Ulf White enters the Battle of Tumbleton having already betrayed Rhaenyra, but by the time Silverwing finishes breathing fire over the city, Ulf no longer behaves like a loyal Green either. He attacks Rhaenyra’s soldiers as Ormund Hightower ordered, then turns his fury loose on Tumbleton itself, ultimately burning the section of the walls where…
