‘Widow’s Bay’ Review: Matthew Rhys Anchors Apple’s Intriguingly Creepy, Oddly Cozy, Unevenly Effective Horror-Comedy

‘Widow’s Bay’ Review: Matthew Rhys Anchors Apple’s Intriguingly Creepy, Oddly Cozy, Unevenly Effective Horror-Comedy

At the end of a very strange dinner punctuated by flickering lights and ominous warnings, a travel writer (Bashir Salahuddin) scouting an island village diagnoses what he sees as the problem with its marketing pitch. “I see what’s going on here. You don’t want to be Nantucket. You want to be Salem,” he says. Leaning…

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Matthew Rhys-Narrated ‘The Wall,’ Exploring Borders and Divisions, Returning as 3 Celtic-Language Broadcasters’ Co-Pro

Matthew Rhys-Narrated ‘The Wall,’ Exploring Borders and Divisions, Returning as 3 Celtic-Language Broadcasters’ Co-Pro

A second season of the 2018 landmark documentary series The Wall, exploring “the human impact of borders and divisions around the world” and narrated by Matthew Rhys in its international version, was unveiled on Thursday, marking “the first tri-nation co-production between the three Celtic-language broadcasters.” The four episodes, each an hour long, are a joint…

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‘The Beast in Me’ Review: Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys Try Hard, but Netflix’s Cat-and-Mouse Thriller Is an Exercise in Prestige TV Monotony

‘The Beast in Me’ Review: Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys Try Hard, but Netflix’s Cat-and-Mouse Thriller Is an Exercise in Prestige TV Monotony

If the past 30 years of TV had a face, one could argue that it belongs to Claire Danes and that it is almost certainly crying. Claire Danes Crying Face, crumpled creases of concern atop a quivery chin, has been deployed in the service of romantic desolation, professional desperation and several permutations of grief, loneliness…

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#‘Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai’ Review: Max’s Animated Origin Story Captures the Spirit of the Films

#‘Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai’ Review: Max’s Animated Origin Story Captures the Spirit of the Films

Joe Dante’s Gremlins came out on the eve of my seventh birthday, and I was instantly smitten. I saw the movie multiple times, read various adaptations and wore out the grooves on the series of tie-in records that were distributed through Hardee’s. Gizmo, the seemingly innocent mogwai who, through modern humanity’s inability to follow three…

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