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TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA – Review by Diane Carson

August 28, 2026August 30, 2026 Diane Carson gillian anderson, Hannah Einbinder, horror parody, Jane Schoenbrun, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Credit writer/director Jane Schoenbrun for a truthful title for her Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. A sendup of slasher films that indulges that genre’s expectations in clever, albeit alternately gory and erotic ways, the story is quite simple. In deep snow, twenty-nine-year-old filmmaker Kris Williams makes a reverential visit to Billy Presley in an isolated cabin on a lake, deep in the Pacific Northwest’s forests. Obsessed with the Camp Miasma franchise, Kris has set her sights on a Camp Miasma reboot.

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TRON: ARES – Review by Diane Carson

October 5, 2025October 11, 2025 Diane Carson Evan Peters, gillian anderson, Greta Lee, IMAX, Jared Leto, jeff bridges, Joachim Rønning, Tron: Ares

Director Joachim Rønning’s Tron: Ares comes roaring, literally in ear-piercing sound, to reverse the original Tron and first sequelTron: Legacy concept. Instead of game creator Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) becoming trapped in the digitized Grid, racing to escape on the coolest of motorcycles, what if that A.I. world invaded the reality its designers, that is, what if “we’re not going there, they’re coming here.”

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SCOOP – Review by Susan Granger

April 9, 2024April 11, 2024 Susan Granger BBC Newsnight, Billie Piper, Emily Maitlis, Ghislaine Maxwell, gillian anderson, Jeffrey Epstein, netflix, Philip Martin, Prince Andrew, rufus sewell, Samantha McAlister, Scoop

Scoop, Netflix’s drama about the downfall of Prince Andrew, drives home the old proverb – “If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas” – a warning to be mindful of who we surround ourselves with and what behavior we condone. The plot of Scoop revolves around how – back in 2019 – the BBC secured an exclusive interview with the Duke of York about his friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The broadcast ultimately triggered Andrew’s disgrace, confiscating his HRH title, patronages and removing him from Royal life.

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SCOOP – Review by Liz Braun

April 5, 2024April 5, 2024 Liz Braun BBC Newsnight, Billie Piper, Emily Maitlis, Ghislaine Maxwell, gillian anderson, Jeffrey Epstein, netflix, Philip Martin, Prince Andrew, rufus sewell, Samantha McAlister, Scoop

Prince Andrew is a prat and his handlers were fools to let him do that interview about Jeffrey Epstein with BBC Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis. That’s the main take-away in Scoop, a new Netflix feature that recreates the infamous 2019 interview that went so badly for the buffoonish prince that it altered his public role forever. Andrew came off as an entitled blowhard and the Epstein scandal just got bigger.

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THE FIRST LADY – Review by Susan Granger

July 12, 2022July 12, 2022 Susan Granger Aaron Cooley, amazon prime, cathy schulman, Ellen Burstyn, gillian anderson, michelle pfeiffer, Suzanne Bier, ten part series, The First Lady, viola davis

I had such high hopes for Showtime’s 10-episode series, The First Lady, But, created by Aaron Cooley with Cathy Schulman as showrunner and stiffly directed by Suzanne Bier, the interlocking narratives, utilizing archival footage, are oddly structured, profiling First Ladies Betty Ford, Michelle Obama and Eleanor Roosevelt – before, during and after their East Wing experience.

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THE SUNLIT NIGHT – Review by Liz Braun

July 8, 2020July 12, 2020 Liz Braun 0 Comments david wnendt, Fridtjov Saheim, gillian anderson, Jenny Slate, rebecca dinrstein, the sunlit night, Zach Galifianakis

The Sunlit Night, a slight romantic comedy saturated in whimsy, has its moments — all of them courtesy Jenny Slate, playing a struggling artist trying to find herself in a remote corner of Norway. Director David Wnendt seems to have organized all the right bits and pieces but something happened in the process of putting them all together.