Nicole Stawiarski

When I was making my way through The Second City’s improv and conservatory programs in Chicago, my instructors and directors kept telling us one thing to help improve our scenes—make a confession.

The Hindi film industry has been going through non-stop transitions ever since COVID. The pandemic halted production and theater attendance, and in the lull, the top tier talent all got married (to each other) and started having families.

If you loved the world of Dunder Mifflin, it’s time for you to meet Copito, a toilet paper company with as much disfunction as it has heart.

Netflix touts an impressive lineup of true crime documentaries and series, but for die-hard fans who have already exhausted the library, the wait for new titles can be agonizing.

It’s obvious that when you get Tina Fey, Will Forte, Steve Carell, and Colman Domingo to share a screen you are going to have a hit on your hands, and somehow we were lucky enough to get an entire mini-series…

Weak Hero Class 2 is a work of art.

Kotaro Lives Alone isn’t the first animated series with a child protagonist to address emotionally adult themes, but it definitely seems to go farther and hit harder than any of it’s predecessors.

Focus Features just dropped the new trailer for their upcoming film starring Aubrey Plaza and Margaret Qualley, Honey Don’t, and boy are we obsessed with the new avatars they are stepping into.

Long before Spotify could personalize our playlists or TikTok could make bedroom-producers blow up overnight, in the nascent days of the iPod, music supervisors like the legendary Alexandra Patsavas had the coolest jobs on the planet.

I’ve dabbled in anime, seen enough to identify landmarks in the genre, but not enough to become fluent in Japanese or start a cosplaying career.

Brooklyn-based duo Ray Bull is the brain-child of Tucker Elkins and Aaron Graham, former art school classmates who found success performing original songs and mash-ups on TikTok, but the second you hear them start to sing, their nostalgic sound transports…

As a die-hard John Wick fan and life-long lover of kick-ass women in lead action roles, there is nothing I’m more excited for than this summer’s Ballerina starring Ana de Armas.

Korean dramas have nailed the formula for romance.

Adolescence created an insane amount of buzz earlier this year with its story of a 13-year-old boy who brutally murders a female classmate, to the astonishment and confusion of the adults and systems which completely missed all the warning signs,…

Swedish drama, The Glass Dome, follows criminologist, Lejla, as she returns to her childhood home following the death of her adopted mother.

Weak Hero Class 2 is a work of art.

As Netflix continues to diversify their library, adding more and more international titles, there’s a new niche of Korean thrillers that is absolutely killing it. Don’t sleep on these can’t-miss titles!

Netflix struck TV series gold when Fight Club and Gone Girl director David Finch became the de facto showrunner for Mindhunter, the psychological crime thriller adapted from John E.