Staff Reviews
Netflix’s doc explores alternative Charles Manson theories
One of America's more famous documentarians, Errol Morris, was intrigued by Tom O'Neill's Chaos, a 2019 book delving into the mysteries around the murders committed in 1969 by people associated with the hippie…
‘No Fault’ documents the American history of divorce
We all know the basic structure of a love story, but what about a divorce story? Over the past several years, a cornucopia of "divorce memoirs" have been released—books such as Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife,…
‘Paradise’ is a postapocalyptic sci-fi mystery
The futuristic 25,000-person town of Paradise in the new Hulu series of the same name is shocked when President Cal Bradford (James Marsden) is found dead in his house by Secret Service agent Xavier Collins (Sterling K.…
‘Invincible’ is a superhero cartoon about ethics
"We can be the good guys, or we can be the guys that save the world." Season 3 of Amazon Prime's animated series Invincible presents this dichotomy through the characters of Mark Grayson, the titular superhero,…
In praise of Zeppo Marx and Shemp from the Three Stooges
Zeppo: The Reluctant Marx Brother, by Robert S. Bader, Applause Books, 368 pages, $34.95 Shemp!: The Biography of The Three Stooges' Shemp Howard, The Face Of Film Comedy, by Burt Kearns, Applause Books, 280 pages,…
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