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Lance Henriksen’s gentle, loyal “artificial person” Bishop in Aliens. (Fox)
With the first season of Noah Hawley’s franchise-extending Alien: Earth wrapping up, I ranked the many “artificial persons” of the Alien-iad according to how persuasively human they are. For Vulture.
Jacob Ming-Trent and the cast of Merry Wives at Shakespeare Theatre Company. (Teresa Castracane)
My Washington City Paper review of the STC revival of Jocelyn Bioh’s 2021 Merry Wives of Windsor update Merry Wives is here.
My Washington Post review is the new polygamy comedy from Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Martin, the cowriters/costars behind The Climb, is here.
Having done the dirty work of surveying all three Jaws sequels for the Paper of Record earlier this summer, it’s only right that three-fourths of the original PCHH cast had me back to talk about the titanic original. Which I’ve seen on the big screen twice this summer.
Jalisa Williams and Awa Sal Secka play reimagined versions of Viola and Olivia, respectively, in a riff on Twelfth Night set in the Cotton Club in 1930s Harlem. (Christopher Mueller)
I generally don’t care for jukebox musicals, but Twelfth Night is my favorite Shakespeare, and adding 22 Duke Ellington compositions don’t hurt it any. My Washington Post review of Signature Theatre’s Play On! is here.
Timothy Olyphant plays a synthetic named Kirsh in Alien: Earth. (FX)
That advanced degree in xenobiology I’ll be paying off for the rest of my life was an adolescence well spent. My Washington Post essay unpacking the lore of Noah Hawley’s FX spinoff series Alien: Earth is here.
Ne Zha is part boy, part demon, all movie star. (CMC/A24)
I’m well aware that many an enthusiastic plus-one has endured a similar cycle of befuddlement / intermittent exhilaration / ultimate exhaustion during a quarter-century where in the entire American industry has remade itself in the service of lore-dense, 2.5-hour-plus “Lord of the Rings” and “Harry Potter” and superhero sagas. No one who can easily tell Mr. Terrific from Mr. Fantastic should complain that a film that has brought so much delight to so many people is too confusing. And yet, I must confess I spent most of the very bright Ne Zha II in the figurative dark.
My Washington Post review of what is currently the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time is here.
The great Jeffrey Wright in Highest 2 Lowest. (Apple/A24)
My Washington City Paper review of Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee’s loose present-day adaptation of the 1959 Ed McBain novel King’s Ransom, which was previously the basis for Akira Kursoawa’s 1963 High and Low, is here.
