‘The Pitt’ Season 2: A Postmortem
Taking stock of Noah Wyle and HBO Max’s hot docs
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Noir and Forgotten History Unite in ‘Death to Pachuco’
Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill tell a wartime story of Mexicans in Los Angeles
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‘City Wide Fever’ Is a Love Letter to Giallo
A unique homage to Italian horror hits theater screens
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‘The Testaments’ Brings Us Back to Gilead
In the sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ Margaret Atwood and Bruce Miller take us to finishing school
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In ‘Cinematic Immunity,’ Film Crews Get the Final Edit
A new history of filmmaking brings stories of the sets
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From Village to Myth: Moscow’s Thousand-Year Story
Simon Morrison’s sweeping history traces the rise of one of the world’s great cities
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Plastic is Shrinking America’s Dicks
‘The Plastic Detox’ tries to move the needle using shock tactics and reality TV tropes
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2 Chainz New Autobiography? It’s a Vibe
‘The Voice in My Head Is God’ is both a mess and a window into his mind
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‘The Drama’ Uses Vomit in Place of Emotion, That’s Just the Start
Kristoffer Borgli wants to skewer modern romcom conventions but ends with a smug exercise in millennial self-loathing
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Spain is Going Crazy for ‘Torrente, Presidente’!
In the sixth instalment of his box-office breaking series, Santiago Segura takes on politics
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With Noir City, Black is Back
New events across the continent celebrate the enduring appeal of the shadowy genre
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Houston, We Have Engagement!
Netflix streams Artmeis II as a NASA reality show
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Huo Mong’s ‘Living the Land’ Revisits a 1990s Chinese Countryside
Award-winning farming nostalgia harvests minimal sentiment
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In ‘Transcription,’ Ben Lerner Breaks the Spell of His Mother’s Voice
Anyone lucky enough to have read Ben Lerner’s explosive trilogy of first-person novels that straddle the border between fiction and memoir might get the sense that Lerner, though 47, is still a bit of a mama’s boy. These three novels, Leaving the Atocha Station (2011), 10:04 (2014) and The Topeka School (2019) all have male protagonists that are Lerner and yet are not. They love art, language, and poetry, but
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BFG Podcast #203: ‘The Forsytes,’ ‘Age of Attraction,’ ‘Survivor,’ and, of course, ‘Fackham Hall’
Neal Pollack talks to pop-culture savant Jessica Babbitt about what’s going on this spring
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