by Leeann Remiker | Apr 30, 2025
From ‘Severance’ to Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Mickey 17’, recent media has become obsessed with doppelgängers as a metaphor for fractured identity within a fast-moving, capitalist world. Seeing the slick body of Robert Pattinson fall lifelessly out of a septic printer over and...
by Leeann Remiker | Apr 29, 2025
Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation of the classic novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ opens with a sunrise: a foggy, dewy English countryside gently illuminated by the first golden light of day. Twenty years later, that mist still has not lifted, and birds have not stopped...
by Leeann Remiker | Apr 26, 2025
In Apple TV’s sharp, stylish new dramedy ‘Your Friends and Neighbors,’ Jon Hamm trades Don Draper’s smolder for suburban pettiness and passive-aggressive tennis matches. A biting take on wealth, masculinity, and community, the series signals the start of a full-blown...
by Leeann Remiker | Apr 23, 2025
Gene Hackman was not supposed to be a movie star. A Marine dropout, a struggling actor well into his thirties, a man once voted “Least Likely to Succeed” by his acting troupe, Hackman nonetheless clawed his way into Hollywood through sheer force of will. His career,...
