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Brie Larson wishes Tom Holland a happy birthday with adorable BTS pic

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Celebrating the Spider-Man actor’s 26th birthday, Brie Larson has shared a photo of her with Tom Holland on the set of Avengers: Endgame. Recommended Videos With the birthday of Holland, many co-stars are sharing images of them with the birthday boy, and Larson has gone into the archives of Avengers: Endgame to wish her fellow hero many happy returns. The photo is from the filming of the final battle, with the duo having one interaction in the film as Peter Parker hands off the Nano Gauntlet to Carol Danvers. Read More...

Brimstone Review

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Women never have a particularly great time in Westerns. Aside from the odd outlier, the genre generally features them as either helpless victims or sex workers, though both endure intense violence at the hands of men. Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone takes this to new extremes; spending most of its 140 punishing minutes inflicting humiliation, misery and trauma upon its female characters. Recommended Videos By the time the credits roll, you’ll have seen women intimidated, leered at, strangled, punched, whipped, beaten, gagged, having their tongues cut out, sexually menaced by their fathers, repeatedly raped and eventually executed. Read More...

Captive Season 1 Review

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Two episodes were provided prior to broadcast. Recommended Videos A few years ago, not many people would have pegged Netflix as a safe haven for documentary storytelling; but that all changed with Virunga, a stunning look into the battle against mountain gorilla poaching, which landed the streaming service its first headline-grabbing Oscar nomination. The film, a riveting exploration of a little-known controversy, turned out to be just the beginning – Netflix’s Making a Murderer was soon to ignite a binge-viewing phenomenon, flooring viewers with its horrifically compelling tale of how one man may have been railroaded by the American criminal justice system for a crime he may not have committed. Read More...

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