Parasite is a film without peer or comparison, it sweeping the Oscars should not come as a surprise, as it is easily the best film of the last decade.
Scorsese’s The Irishman Is Not Your Daddy’s Gangster Movie
Scorsese’s The Irishman could be his last venture into the gangster genre, and he leaves us with something entirely new, and very un-Scorsese.
Book Review: Juliet Marillier Enters the YA Fantasy Realm With The Harp of Kings
The Harp of Kings is a melding of past and present, introducing reality television tropes to the realm of fantasy. It’s distinctive, but safe enough for the merry throng of YA readers.
Anna Sherman’s Version of Tokyo Past and Present Is a Visceral Miso
Anna Sherman’s travel book about Tokyo reads like no other: part history, part fiction, all grounded in fact. A staggering reassembling of an ancient city turned neon metropolis. (Picador)
John Wick 3: A Threequel That Mirthfully Stacks Corpses … and Little Else
John Wick is not a particularly complicated man. He’s hellbent on avenging his dog/car. The third edition is yet more palpable nonsense, but it is very very good nonsense.
The Kominsky Method: Michael Douglas’ Weird Netflix Flex
Looking for something meaty on Netflix to devour? Sample the insanity of The Kominsky Method.
Bodyguard: Netflix’s New Force Toes the Line Between Genius and Stupidity
Netflix’s Bodyguard wonderfully intersperses the British worlds of politeness and extreme violence in a manner that skirts the boundaries of genius.
Remake or No, I’m Gaga Over “A Star Is Born”
Yes, we’ve seen it before, but the Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper reboot of A Star Is Born is strangely fresh.
Exile on Front Street: My Life as a Hells Angel and Beyond by George Christie
George Christie’s version of his life as charter president of the Hells Angels is as verbally grandiose as it is proudly grim. Consider it a literary chain across one’s face.
Fourth Wave Feminism Meets Reality TV in Jessica Knoll’s The Favorite Sister
Jessica Knoll’s new book The Favorite Sister is part TV, part feminism, part mechanical bull. Hold on tight.