Latest Stories

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  Rosamund Pike Dazzles, but A Private War Puts a Reporter Before Her Reporting

  November 16 at 8 a.m.

  Pike’s Colvin is haunted by visions of carnage she has seen, sometimes imagining that her London home is a bombed-out shell of itself, that a little girl she once saw die is lying in her own bed

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  HBO’s My Brilliant Friend Honors the Intimate Power of Elena Ferrante’s Novels

  November 15 at 8 a.m.

  The story of two girls who are too smart for their circumstances, one of whom will manage to transcend them, the show casts the minutiae of their tiny world as high drama

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  Hulu’s The Bisexual Stands as the First First-Rate TV Series About Queer Women

  November 14 at 9 a.m.

  Akhavan created and cowrote The Bisexual (with her Miseducation cowriter Cecilia Frugiuele) and stars (she also directed four out of its six episodes) in this comedy about an American immigrant in London

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  With Buster Scruggs, the Coen Brothers Fully Commit to Cheery Meaninglessness

  November 14 at 8 a.m.

  In typical Coen fashion, most people in the movie meet ironic or wry deaths, but this time the Coens seem to be actively eschewing any deeper emotional connection between the audience and the characters

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  In 1969, Stan Lee Told Angry Readers That Comics Must Stand Up for Civil Rights

  November 12 at 5:50 p.m.

  From Lee and Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and John Romita and many more came the great flowering of ‘60s superheroes, the ones who seemed like human beings in ways that Superman or Batman didn’t

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  Netflix’s Outlaw King Is Just Beardo vs. Beardo in Scotland’s Mud Pits

  November 7 at 5:05 p.m.

  One lord scowls with even more surliness than the rest: Chris Pine is Robert the Bruce, a Scot who will, eventually, declare himself king of his country and wage guerrilla war against Edward