John Mulaney is the kind of comedian I want to see crack open. I say that as a fan. I’m not alone here. I think often about his 2014 appearance on “WTF with Marc Maron” because you can hear Maron’s frustration at Mulaney’s composure build while he prattles charmingly on. “Just, you know, who’s in […]

“Beau Is Afraid,” a mommy-obsessed magnum opus from elevated-horror auteur Ari Aster (“Hereditary,” “Midsommar”), opens with a therapy session, conducted virtually in real time, in which the title character – played by a balding, bleary-eyed Joaquin Phoenix – shares his anxieties with a sympathetic clinician (Stephen McKinley Henderson). Beau is scheduled to leave the next […]

Does anyone remember Afghanistan? Guy Ritchie is here to remind you. It was only in August 2021 – less than two years ago – that the United States pulled its last troops from the country in which we had been fighting for two decades, but it seems like a lifetime ago. So much so that […]

For readers of a certain demographic – say, 46-year-old white women – there were three sacred texts of pre-adolescence. First were the “Babysitters Club” books, through which we came to envy girls with private phone lines and learn about diabetes. Second was the “Sweet Valley High” series, through which we came to envy the Wakefield […]

Give yourself plenty of time to stroll ‘The Painted State’ at Greenhut and into the magical woods at Cove Street.