Watching

  • Vampire Lestat. Interview with a Vampire’s Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) is now fronting glam-garage revival act. In place of the sweeping emotionality that defined Louis’ perspective comes Lestat’s tour diary that is part scuzzy rock doc, part druggy, neo-glam fantasy, and part supernatural thriller. Read more.

  • Office Romance. This breezy, J.Lo romance works because leading man Brett Goldstein, best known for his supporting role on Ted Lasso, has enough charisma to stand up to Lopez’s high-beam beauty. Read the review here.

  • Cape Fear. This series is so laden with symbolism and legacy, it almost collapses under their weight. Yet Javier Bardem’s is the rare lead performance powerful enough to carry a show. Read the review here.

  • Backrooms. This is a slow-burn horror that relies on the unsettling nature of that uncanny limbo to build atmospheric dread before ratcheting up to true cosmic horror. We break down the ending here.

Talking About

  • The second season of Your Friends and Neighbors has Coop, a hedge fund manager turned criminal, going through some serious turmoil. We spoke with show creator Jonathan Tropper and director Stephanie Laing about the finale here.

  • Slow-burn horror Backrooms was built from an anonymous 4chan creepypasta post. We explain how YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Kane Parsons turned that post into a film and the ending here.

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