Leighton Meester
Series Review: The second season of The Buccaneers takes a tonal departure as it attempts to fill the Bridgerton-sized hole in your streaming schedule
Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers aired the final episode of its second season last week, laying the groundwork for a potential third season. Whether it was a case of the pacing being hindered by the one episode a week release structure, or the show getting too far away from its original source material, this historical drama…
Series Review: Good Cop/Bad Cop is a quirky situational comedy that benefits from its snappy ensemble and lived-in characters
Whilst there’s certainly nothing wrong with the prestige approach to television and treating an entire season as an extended film, essentially, Good Cop/Bad Cop is a welcome example of the type of throwback, one-hour sittings of pure entertainment, riding off the benefits of a snappy ensemble, familiar rhythms and lived-in characters. Set for release locally…
Film Review: River Wild reimagines the classic Meryl Streep thriller with a more violent, survivalist layering
Branding itself as a reimagining rather than a traditional remake – and this is one of those cases where that wording does actually tie into the overall mentality – River Wild takes the basic premise of Curtis Hanson’s 1994 thriller The River Wild, a Hitchcock-in-the-great-outdoors chiller that raised its own profile through the inclusion of…