“Richmond’s Got Talent”
Warning: Reviews of Ted Lasso season 4 episode 3 will contain spoilers.
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Ice Cream Man
Kids are the worst, or at least that’s what Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man posits, with little nuance or storytelling to find between its gruesome kills. Roth’s previous film, the slasher send-up Thanksgiving, worked in part because of its creative set pieces, but this film seems to exist purely so that Roth can see what level of shock and shlock he can get away with. But, at only 86 minutes, Roth leaves no space for developing characters or any tangible world worth saving.
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The Dink
Given that it’s become one of the fastest-growing sports in the world, it was only inevitable for pickleball to be the subject of a sports comedy. Enter The Dink, a film which has quite a few funny ideas at play, but manages to run most of them into the ground until they barely make it across the finish line. Thankfully it’s a film that’s populated by hilarious personalities, utilizing their greatest strengths.
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“Flamingos”
Warning: This review of episode 5 of Margo’s Got Money Troubles will contain spoilers.
It makes perfect sense that a Vegas matinee magic show would expose all the flaws within Kenny (Greg Kinnear) and Shyanne’s (Michelle Pfeiffer) relationship. Margo’s Got Money Troubles episode 5 is the longest of season 1 so far, and it gives Pfeiffer more opportunities to show why she’s such an integral part of the show. I was initially concerned that the show was burning through its plot too quickly, given the looming “will-they-won’t-they” nature of Jinx (Nick Offerman) re-entering Shyanne and Margo’s (Elle Fanning) lives, but based on this week’s entry, it seems that we’re far from done with this storyline in the grand scheme of the series.
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Warning: This review of episode 4 of Margo’s Got Money Troubles will contain spoilers.
We’ve arrived at a strange cultural moment when it comes to on-screen representations of sex. On the one hand, there’s so many reports and studies of the younger generation’s aversion to sex scenes. On the other, romance and romantasy novels – of which Margo’s Got Money Troubles is adjacent to at least – are keeping book stores alive, and careers are made from influencers who traffic in the genre. Episode 4 of season 1 sees Margo (Elle Fanning) get her feet wetter in the OnlyFans community, and the further development of its lead trio’s characters.
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Warning: This review of episodes 1-3 of Margo’s Got Money Troubles will contain spoilers.
The sad reality of Margo’s Got Money Troubles lies in the fact that, despite some of the outlandishly comedic details, there are hundreds, if not thousands of similar stories from real women across America facing the same predicaments. Perhaps that’s why Rufi Thorpe’s bestselling novel of the same name was so quickly snatched up to be adapted into the star-studded AppleTV+ series. Thorpe’s novel presents an ordinary American family, and an ordinary heroine, whose circumstances, resulting from an unplanned pregnancy, force her to uncomfortable extremes. Regardless of the show’s familiarity or relatability, TV superproducer David E. Kelley provides a showcase for Elle Fanning in perhaps her best performance yet.
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“Cold Harbor”
Warning: The review of Severance season 2 episode 10 will contain spoilers.
“Cold Harbor”, the season 2 finale of Severance, had a lot to live up to, and it mostly succeeds, further establishing the show as one of the best on TV today. The season 1 finale so memorably opened up the world with a shocking final sequence that was unlike so much of what we see in modern television, and while this week’s installment offers a lot of similar flavors, I don’t know if it goes down quite as smoothly. We’ll get to the final moments, and how it sets up the future, in a moment, but first we should talk about what episode 10 is primarily concerned with.
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Warning: The review of Severance season 2 episode 9 will contain spoilers.
So many television shows use the penultimate episode of a season to produce the biggest shocks, but Severance episode 9 is all about building suspense for next week’s season 2 finale. With Mark’s (Adam Scott) completion of Cold Harbor imminent, our major players are coming together – or going apart, in some cases – as they seek to destroy or protect Lumon. Unlike so many of season 2’s installments, “The After Hours” moves along at a breakneck pace, so let’s get going on one of the show’s most densely packed offerings.
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The Movie State 