Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks for some of April’s most promising new titles. (Note: Streaming services occasionally change schedules without giving notice. For more recommendations on what to stream, sign up for our Watching newsletter here.) New to Amazon Prime Video ‘The Bondsman’ Season … Read more
“I really believe that we all do contain multitudes,” Andrew Scott said on a Friday morning in March. Scott may contain more than most. An actor of unusual sensitivity and verve, he is starring, solo, in an Off Broadway production of Chekhov’s melancholy comedy “Uncle Vanya.” The title, like the cast list, has also been … Read more
Watch out for Richard Roma. Top man among the bottom feeders at a scammy Chicago real estate agency, he has a hypnotic come-on and a dizzying spiel. Identifying your vulnerabilities with forensic accuracy, he’ll lance them with a blunt needle. (“You think you’re queer?” he asks one mark. “I’m going to tell you something: We’re … Read more
Who exactly is in charge here? Is it the strutting general or his self-effacing ensign? The man celebrated for his “free and open nature” or the sociopath who keeps stockpiling secrets? That question has been occupying the minds of theatergoers and readers since Shakespeare’s “Othello” was first performed in London in the early 17th century. … Read more
Linda Williams, a trailblazing scholar whose research was foundational to the field of film studies and to feminist film theory, and who wrote extensively about pornography, died on March 12 at her home in Lafayette, in Northern California. She was 78. Her husband, Paul Fitzgerald, said the cause was complications of a hemorrhagic stroke she … Read more
When the artist Michael Townsend first told the documentarian Jeremy Workman about the time he and his friends lived in a secret apartment tucked inside the Providence Place Mall, Workman thought he was being punked. Then Townsend pulled out a cracked iPad to show Workman some grainy video. “I just was dumbfounded and blown away,” … Read more
‘Scream’ (2022) (April 11) Stream it here. Resurrecting the decade-dormant “Scream” franchise without the guiding hand of the late Wes Craven was a questionable choice, and this 2022 installment from the “Ready or Not” directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, doesn’t match the ingenuity or chills of Craven’s earlier installments. But it is still an … Read more
‘Scream’ (2022) (April 11) Stream it here. Resurrecting the decade-dormant “Scream” franchise without the guiding hand of the late Wes Craven was a questionable choice, and this 2022 installment from the “Ready or Not” directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, doesn’t match the ingenuity or chills of Craven’s earlier installments. But it is still an … Read more
‘Something Is About to Happen’ Rent or buy it on most major platforms. For most of its two-hour run time, Antonio Méndez Esparza’s slow-burn thriller doesn’t feel like a horror movie. There’s no gore, evil spirits or gorgons. Yet, as it follows a middle-aged woman who loses her grip on reality, the film chillingly embodies … Read more
It took just a few minutes into this 2023 documentary for me to be dumbfounded that I had never heard about this chapter in American history, when an entire school bus of children and their driver, 27 people in total, disappeared mid-route on a hot summer day in 1976 in the small California town of … Read more