‘Asura’ Is a First-Class Home Drama

‘Asura’ Is a First-Class Home Drama

“Asura,” a seven-episode Japanese drama on Netflix (in Japanese, with subtitles, or dubbed), is the complete bundle: an in depth, human-scale home drama with a lot to say, fascinating characters to say it and the stylishness to make it sing. The draw back is that different reveals really feel paltry and skinny compared. The upside … Read more

Three Nice Documentaries to Stream

Three Nice Documentaries to Stream

The proliferation of documentaries on streaming companies makes it tough to decide on what to look at. Every month, we’ll choose three nonfiction movies — classics, ignored current docs and extra — that may reward your time. ‘From the Journals of Jean Seberg’ (1995) Hire it on Kanopy, Ovid and Vimeo. Concurrently a biography, a … Read more

7 New Books We Advocate This Week

7 New Books We Advocate This Week

Time and area break freed from their standard constraints in a few of this week’s really helpful books: Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Every thing” dives deep into the fathomless world of black holes and the physicists who examine them, whereas the primary two entries in Solvej Balle’s seven-part novel “On the Calculation of Quantity” … Read more