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Best films and television (May 9th to 11th)

Clockwise from above: Poker facePresent Conan O'Brien has to goPresent Rupaul's drag Race All StarsAnd Forever.
Photo illustration: vulture; Photos: Ralph Bavaro/Peacock, Elizabeth Morris/Netflix, MTV, Max

On the Mother's Day weekend there is nothing new in the cinemas. I can't say whether this is a light or just a way for Hollywood to spend time with their mothers. Maybe you and yours can stay and watch simply Poker face. You will love to point to a guest star and to say: “Isn't that the green lady out Evil? “

Natasha Lyonne continues to use her lieever alenters to solve crimes in the second season Columbo-Sque series, which is absolutely full of top-class guest stars. There is not enough space to list them all, so I will only spit out a few names: Cynthia Erivo, Awkwafina, John Cho, Melanie Lynskey and Richard Art (obviously). – Jen Chaney

Clowns have been spent in a few years, and other times they are the hottest, which is the hottest in horror. It is a little early to see whether this new Slasher from Shudder can drive Scare Wave, but it tries for sure. As the namesake suggests, Clown in a corn field Includes a clown called Frendo who terrorized some children in a small city.

“[Michael Cooper Jr. and Lovie Simone] are that what that gives Forever The juice that gives a television creation of sexual exploration of teenagers with amazement and disappointment and open mechanical uncertainty. “
((Streaming on Netflix; Read the full evaluation of Vanarendonk Here.))

Conan O'Brien was in a glowing strip: he recently organized the Oscars and won the Mark Twain Prize for the American humor. Now he returns to Max for another season of his delightful idiotic travel show. At the premiere on Thursday he drives to New Zealand, where he will meet Kiwi filmmaker Taika Waititi. The silliness must arise. – Tolly Wright

This film seems to be striving for it John Wick Action meets Snakes on the plane Absurdity, an inspired choice for an aircraft thriller. Josh Hartnett plays as a shamed American agent to track down and protect an asset on a long -haul flight. Oh, and there are also a few exaggerated assassins on board to kill exactly this person. Did I mention that stubborn hair? –TW

Welcome back, Lydia Loch Kollins, Ginger Minj, Denali, beloved Isabelle Brooks and much more. This season has an even bigger line -up (a total of 18 queens), since the All stars in teams and competing tournament styles for who know how long. And to round off the whole thing, we finally get Chappell Roan as a guest judge !!

“The innovation in Bandersnatch Most of it seems to be technological, a way that has more to do with the underlying streaming engine than with a new genre of storytelling. (Accordingly diversityNetflix 'app had to be revised Bandersnatch is how well it proves that technology and narrative are connected. ” –Kathryn Vanarendonk

In 2018 our critic Kathryn Vanarendonk wrote about the possibility of Bandersnatch To be the “dawn of interactive television”. Seven years later, Netflix has not done much with this technology since then. Now it licks Bandersnatch and the other special special of streamer Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy against The Reverend, From the platform. Well.

Streaming (but only until May 12th) on Netflix

This is really not your Disney fairy tale. If at all, it takes the history of the Brothers Grimm “Cinderella”, in which the steps sisters go to violent lengths to get the prince. Here the oldest step -sister, Elvira (Lea Myren), learns a cruel tactic to make yourself beautiful in order to advertise the prince (ISAC Calmroth) from her beautiful orphaned stepsister Agnes (Thea Sofie Loch Næss).

In the third episode of Poker faceThe new season, there are many moles, rats and snakes – the undercover variety. When the phrases remind them of it The deceased, Then it may be time to read the original 2002 thriller Martin Scorsese on his Oscar winner,, Hellish affairs. The Hong Kong-Kino-Titan Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Andy Lau as a police cadet for the hiring of a criminal organization and a gang member who was commissioned to become a police jaunda. –TW

Do you want more? Read our recommendations from the Weekend of May 2nd.

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