Gerald Morris

There is a moment early in Marty, Life Is Short where Martin Short's alter ego, the oafish celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick, scoffs at the very idea of a documentary being made about Martin Short. "They're making a documentary on literally everyone," Glick grumbles — and he's not entirely wrong. The celebrity documentary has become its own genre at this point, with Netflix leading the charge on what feels like a new one every few weeks. Short is self-aware enough to lampoon the format from...

APEX is a new Netflix original, a cat-and-mouse survival thriller starring Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton. The premise has genuine potential — isolation, survival instinct, a compelling antagonist — and on paper, the cast alone is reason enough to show up. Kormakur has made this kind of high-stakes physical cinema before, so there was no obvious reason to walk in expecting disaster. And yet... GENERAL THOUGHTS APEX is the kind of film that relies almost entirely on its action to carry the...

Before most American audiences had even heard of I Swear, the film had already been pulled into one of the uglier moments in recent awards history. At the 2026 BAFTA Film Awards, Tourette syndrome activist John Davidson — the real man on whose life the film is based — was seated in the audience while Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo (Sinners) took the stage to present an award. During that moment, Davidson involuntarily shouted a racial slur, a direct result of his coprolalia, a symptom of...