Fairport Convention: It All Comes 'Round Again (1987)

Court TV shows offer uncritical eyes on the systemic inequalities of the legal world.

Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.

A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.

Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.

The makings of a great midseason filler episode that would connect in many different directions. This is a police drama filler with a guest director.

A pampered dog who gets lost and has to learn to live on his own while being flexible with surroundings.