Best Frenemies Forever: ‘Hacks’ Delivers Joy and Jokes Over Jadedness In Final Season

The first season of Hacks premiered on May 13, 2021, on HBO Max, and it was a juggernaut of a show, immediately receiving critical praise and accolades. The show’s premise seems standard: a legendary comedy icon, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), meets struggling millennial...

‘Big Mistakes’: The Unexpected Delight of Dysfunctional Siblinghood in Dan Levy’s Crime Comedy

If there is one thing that Dan Levy does exceptionally, it’s playing one-half (or in the case of Big Mistakes, one-third) of a siblinghood. His lovingly intense and frantic chemistry with Annie Murphy’s Alexis Rose in Schitt’s Creek was on point, showing a...

A Refreshing, Highly Melanated ‘Hamlet’ With a Reasonable Run Time

The first Hamlet movie that comes to mind has always been Kenneth Branagh’s full-text adaptation. I only remember it because I watched his word-for-word version of the William Shakespeare tragedy in high school English. It was four hours. It took us four days to get...

The Tom Ford Of It All

This week marked the 63rd birthday of filmmaker and fashion designer extraordinaire Tom Ford, a man who I was obsessed with back in my days as a fashion journalist. I pined for those wildly expensive Tom Ford suits but settled for a pair of sunglasses that would be...