Isn’t it just the way? You wait all summer for a good Netflix series, and then two come along in the same week. No sooner had I finished enjoying Midnight Mass than a critical mass of praise began b
Netflix’s favorite horror-meister, Mike Flanagan, is back with a new miniseries, Midnight Mass. I suspect it’s not going to have the same fannish reach as his previous shows, The Haunting
Science fiction is written all over the world, and every few years Anglophone audiences get exposed to a new corner of it. The last decade has seen a flowering of Chinese and Japanese SF in translatio
One of the highlights of my (now sadly concluded) vacation was getting to see live theater again. I saw three plays—two musicals and a Shakespeare production; one in a West End theater, one in small
[This review originally appeared on my blog on June 29th.] “Obviously we have to do better,” she said. “The Paris Agreement was created to avoid tragedies like this one. We are all i
The Underground Railroad, Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning 2016 novel, is the best television show of 2021. I know we’re not quite at the halfway poi
It’s been a week since the end of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Disney+’s second MCU series, and I think it’s safe to conclude that while the show certainly had its bright spots
Time zone issues meant that I was unable to participate in the LGM Oscars podcast, but on the other hand this is the first year in a long time that I’ve seen all of the nominees (not unrelatedly