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Strap in for some top-tier humor by a comic artist, Madeline Horwath. You might recognize her work from publications in The New Yorker, The Chicago Reader, The LA Times, Seattle Stranger, and other venues.Madeline's comics are definitely on the edgier side. However, this is how the artist described the art style herself: "My cartoons are single panel for the New Yorker as well as the occasional multi-panel comic. It’s hard for me to say I have a specific style. Whatever comes from me is the style, and I cannot control…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press The on-screen pairing of Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin is not exactly a novelty at the moment. Seven seasons of “Grace and Frankie” and the movie “80 for Brady” has, perhaps, spoiled us a little lately. And, unfortunately, second-act movies with Hollywood legends have a very hit or miss track record (sorry “Queen Bees” and “Poms”). But don’t let either of those facts dissuade you from trying out ” Moving On,” which was written and directed by Paul Weitz (“Grandma,” “About a Boy”) and opens…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press It is 1862 in a remote Irish village when an English nurse is called in by a local council to observe and investigate a phenomenon in the haunting new film ” The Wonder.” There is, she’s told, an 11-year-old girl who has not eaten food in four months and seems to still be healthy. The nurse, Lib Wright (Florence Pugh), is to watch the girl, in alternating shifts with a nun — it is Ireland, of course — and report back as to what she observes. They say they’d like to know if it’s a miracle…

With its rosy, sun-drenched colour palette (at least initially), Carlota Martínez-Pereda’s spiky Spanish horror understands girlish anxiety so well that it could comfortably be a coming-of-age pic. Behind the glass counter of her parents’ butcher shop, Sara (Laura Galán) keeps a safe distance from the cool-girl clique which mercilessly makes fun of her weight. Highly aware of her body, Sara’s self-consciousness is exacerbated by an overly protective mother, who watches her every move. As if growing pains aren’t bad…

Boasting a director, co-writer and producer who have all served on HBO’s banner business drama Succession, restaurant thriller The Menu arrives with similar ingredients, just cooked at a different temperature. It’s as sleekly designed, all sharp marble edges and oversized wine glasses, and also focused on the grotesqueries of the haves, here being forced to deal with the have nots, serving them an elaborate multi-course dinner at an absurdly ostentatious private island, $1,250 a head, TBC on whether they’ll get to keep…

There’s an unusual, intoxicating air to writer-director John Michael McDonagh’s latest, and splashiest, film The Forgiven, a wrong-footing combination of crime thriller, dark comedy and shaggy hangout movie. It’s a strange watch – unsure of itself at times, hugely, bullishly confident at others – but one that’s never less than curiously compelling, a mostly convincing return to form after 2016’s underwhelming War on Everyone.Like his younger brother Martin, McDonagh’s writing is often at its best when it’s at its most…

via Columbia Pictures If you were presented with a list of names involved in 1994’s genre-bending Wolf, but given no clue as to the title or context of the movie itself, then you’d probably be left imagining a hard-hitting prestige drama or broad character study of some description. After all, EGOT winner Mike Nichols directed the picture, the score was composed by the legendary Ennio Morricone, with three-time Academy Award victor Jack Nicholson heading up a cast that also featured three-time Oscar nominee and…

Back in late 2020, Tommy Saint made his debut with “Could You Please?”, a searing piece of alt-rap that paired an ominous, theremin-sounding synth melody with fast-talking raps and a husky singing style on the hook. Now, after spending much of 2021 hard at work on his debut EP, Saint Season, the multi-talented rapper, singer and producer returns with the project’s first single, “My Phone”.Produced, written, and performed by Tommy Saint, his uniquely low-slung singing style is the star of the show as he details a life…

“You think that you are the cleverest person in the room, and that makes you dangerous,” a colleague tells Dr. Adam Kay, the British obstetrician at the center of the UK limited series This Is Going to Hurt. Ordinarily, this is the kind of sentiment hurled at the protagonist of a modern antihero drama, or at least the main character of a slightly complex network procedural. (If that exact sentence was never said to Dr. Gregory House, the general sentiment surely was, many times over.) Adam is, indeed, guilty of a…