Ludwig Season 2 Review: Lucy Gets the Credentials and the Story Gets Better
DCS Carol Shaw deals with the man who impersonated one of her detectives by giving him a consultancy and an...
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Marie Gillespie’s recollection of northern soul carries an attachment that the passing decades have done little to loosen. Listening to her in Alan Byron’s Northern Soul: Still Burning, one senses how inadequately the word “hobby” would describe those nights. A ballroom could occupy a permanent place in a person’s understanding of being alive. Byron’s interviews allow that feeling to persist in the present tense, even as his archive returns us to the young bodies that once sustained it. Gillespie remembers; the dancers on film are still dancing. Their movement gives the recollections a physical vocabulary. Leather soles slide across talcum...

Madelyn Yu already had a career when she left the Philippines. She was a head nurse, a wife, and the mother of a young child. American hospitals needed nurses, and recruitment offered her an opportunity that required leaving much of that life behind. Her husband and child eventually joined her in the United States. The separation matters because it prevents her account from becoming a simple progression from deprivation to opportunity. She had something to lose before she had anything to gain. Retirement in 2019, after forty-six years of nursing, supplies an apparent endpoint. Yu and her husband planned to...

Preparing for the Blessed Festivities means helping the family get ready to feed the moths. Nora’s grandmother takes the occasion seriously, and the Moth Minder’s delivery of fruit belongs to the household routine. The moths eat people, including anyone who tries to leave Gruesome Grove. Nora already has something else to worry about: her mother is missing. Allogloom lets these concerns occupy the same domestic space, where an alarming ceremony still involves the familiar business of doing things for your relatives. When monsters abduct Nora’s family and the other villagers, that small amount of time spent among them matters. The...

Raymond Domenech admits he lied, then asks us to take his sense of betrayal seriously. I found myself resisting him almost immediately. A manager who has helped damage his own credibility makes an awkward witness to the disloyalty of others. Yet the admission also puts an uncomfortable question before the viewer: how much truth are we prepared to discard because we dislike the person telling it? His diaries complicate the answer. Displayed as short passages typed onto a white word-processing screen, they preserve his irritation with the players without the retrospective interview’s opportunities for adjustment. The plain presentation gives those...

Mo Gawdat remembers the robotic arms at Google learning to pick up objects with the affection of someone watching a child acquire a new skill. The grasp matters less to him than the learning it represents. A machine has begun to acquire competence, and his response is protective pride. That response gives Chasing Utopia an unusually intimate point of entry into artificial intelligence: the person warning us about its destructive potential also feels responsible for its upbringing. His affection makes the warning harder to dismiss and his proposed remedy harder to separate from hope. The parental analogy acquires painful weight...

Ingrid and Jenny’s strained politeness is uncomfortable because Jessica Hunt and Meghan Adara make their familiarity so believable. Returning to their childhood home after their mother’s death, the estranged sisters have possessions to sort through and a past they struggle to discuss. In Sam Mason-Bell’s They Wait in Shadows, their conversations retain the easy recognition of sibling talk even as resentment interrupts it. You can believe these women once shared a home, and you can feel the effort involved in sharing one again. That gives the house an emotional charge before its supernatural occupants become a problem. Hunt makes Ingrid’s...
DCS Carol Shaw deals with the man who impersonated one of her detectives by giving him a consultancy and an...
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Read moreDetailsParamount’s live-action “Street Fighter” drew a split verdict from early viewers after its Los Angeles premiere Monday, with fans of the arcade classic cheering the camp and critics of the script groaning. Writer-director Kitao Sakurai’s film opens in theaters Friday. It is set in 1993 and follows estranged fighters Ryu...
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Read moreMarie Gillespie’s recollection of northern soul carries an attachment that the passing decades have done little to loosen. Listening to her in Alan Byron’s Northern Soul: Still Burning, one senses...
Madelyn Yu already had a career when she left the Philippines. She was a head nurse, a wife, and the mother of a young child. American hospitals needed nurses, and...
Preparing for the Blessed Festivities means helping the family get ready to feed the moths. Nora’s grandmother takes the occasion seriously, and the Moth Minder’s delivery of fruit belongs to...
Raymond Domenech admits he lied, then asks us to take his sense of betrayal seriously. I found myself resisting him almost immediately. A manager who has helped damage his own...
Mo Gawdat remembers the robotic arms at Google learning to pick up objects with the affection of someone watching a child acquire a new skill. The grasp matters less to...
Ingrid and Jenny’s strained politeness is uncomfortable because Jessica Hunt and Meghan Adara make their familiarity so believable. Returning to their childhood home after their mother’s death, the estranged sisters...
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Preparing for the Blessed Festivities means helping the family get ready to feed the moths. Nora’s grandmother takes the occasion...
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