FX’s ‘The Drop: A Snowfall Saga’ Takes West Coast Rap Back to the Beginning
What happens when a hustle that once meant survival starts looking like a very promising opportunity? That question drives The Drop: A Snowfall Saga, a new chapter in the world established by FX’s acclaimed series Snowfall, taking viewers into 1990s Los Angeles as the city emerges from the devastation of the crack epidemic and West Coast hip-hop—or gangsta rap– begins its meteoric rise. At the center are Wanda Bell and Leon...
Glen Powell Gets Back in the Game — and Back in Disguise — for ‘Chad Powers’ Season 2
Who isn’t a bit enchanted by actor Glen Powell’s comedic charade as disguised quarterback Chad Powers? That may be the secret weapon behind Season 2 of Hulu’s Chad Powers, the irreverent sports comedy that turns one of Hollywood’s most charismatic leading men into one of its most ridiculous creations. Powell returns as the titular former college football phenom Russ Holliday, still hiding behind the prosthetics, swagger and...
Ridley Scott’s ‘The Dog Stars’ Deserves to be Discovered
Just because it’s not burning up the box office does not mean that The Dog Stars is not worth seeing. In fact, the opposite may be true: this is precisely the kind of movie that can get lost in the noise of bigger studio releases, even though it offers something increasingly rare — a thoughtful, beautifully acted adult drama that takes its time and trusts its audience. Based on Peter Heller’s acclaimed 2012 novel, The Dog Stars...
‘Coyote vs. Acme:’ The Looney Tune That Refused to Be Squashed by a Big Corporation
For a movie about a cartoon character who spends his life falling off cliffs, getting blown up, flattened and otherwise humiliated by his own ill-fated schemes, Coyote vs. Acme has had a remarkably similar journey. The live-action/animated comedy was completed in 2022, only to become one of Hollywood’s most notorious casualties of corporate accounting. Warner Bros. decided in 2023 to shelve the roughly $70 million production and take...
‘Lion’ Is National Geographic’s Breathtaking, Irresistible Wildlife Epic
There are wildlife documentaries that educate you about animals, and then there are wildlife documentaries that make you emotionally invest in one. National Geographic’s Lion does the latter — spectacularly. The four-part series follows Kio, a lion born in Kenya’s Maasai Mara, from a vulnerable little cub into a powerful young male fighting for the chance to establish his own kingdom. Filmed over more than four years and nearly 1,400...
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