‘Midnight’ is a Triumph of Suspense, Terror, and Frustration

When he was about nine or 10 years old, Devadatta Rajadhyaksha read the book The Adventures of Dennis, by Victor Dragunsky. Rajadhyaksha was mesmerized by naughty little Dennis, who kept grass snakes, lizards, and frogs in his pockets, made funny faces in front of the mirror, and liked to hop and skip. The book was…

There’s an endless array of adjectives and comparisons that come to mind with Matthew Rankin’s debut feature The Twentieth Century. Even before having the good grace to watch the film, the very trailer conjures up a bevy of images that indicate a dense fog of misty expression, ironic humor, gender-bending, and a very specific brand…

“You have no idea how hard it is to program flirting”, says a woman (Sandra Hüller) to Alma (Maren Eggert), after her date, Tom (Dan Stevens) tilts in the middle of the dance floor and has to be carried away by a group of men. The two had met just a few minutes earlier, Alma…

[The dog is, in fact, saved. Again. You’re welcome. – eds.] Story: Remember that preggo megalodon from the first film? Me neither, but other than Jason Statham punching a shark, I remember very little else. Anyway, that shark had a baby shark (DOO-DOO), and researcher Jiuming Zhang, decided to keep it For The Research. Naturally, our…

The Boston Cream Pie is a simple dessert: two golden sponge cakes with pastry cream between them and a thin layer of chocolate ganache on top. But the cake—and it’s definitely a cake, not a pie—has become so legendary during its more than 150-year history that it’s now the official state dessert of Massachusetts. This…

If the first two episodes of Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick‘s docuseries Allen v. Farrow seemed slightly one-sided, with the third episode the mask finally slips and all pretension of bipartisanship is obliterated. The third installment is markedly different from the first two and focuses purely on the facts and details of the case as…