GENIUS
“Real Housewives” is deceptively difficult to satirize well. Leave it the bonkers genius of Julio Torres’ “Fantasmas” to cast Emma Stone and Rosie Perez in the best one yet.
Coleman Spilde is a Brooklyn-based entertainment critic for The Daily Beast covering pop culture high and low, from celebrity news to the latest in film, television, and music. He studied Media with a concentration in Analysis and Criticism at Hunter College where he learned to dissect subjects to the minutiae while finding the humor in everything. His work has appeared in Taste, WhatCulture, and his newsletter Top Shelf, Low Brow, among others.
FINAL GIRL
After the one-two punch of “X” and “Pearl,” “MaXXXine” is a thrilling conclusion to an outstanding slasher trilogy.
BEAUTIFULLY BIZARRE
This movie may sound a little too much like “The Idea of You,” but trust us—it’s so much more fun.
SEE//SKIP
A guide to the week’s best and worst TV shows and movies from The Daily Beast’s Obsessed critics.
ON BEAT
Gladstone gives a second masterful turn in as many months in this quietly beautiful family story.
TWIST OF FATE
The new movie “Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person” is one of the most original takes on the vampire subgenre. (The film’s title alone!)
GO CRY ABOUT IT
Frankel’s foray into television movies, “Danger in the Dorm,” is about as good as you’d expect it to be. But the reality TV alum holds it together with plenty of maternal heart.
SEE/SKIP
A guide to the week’s best and worst TV shows and movies from The Daily Beast’s Obsessed critics.
YIELD
Dolly Parton, Liza Minnelli, and Bette Midler all know Jackie is a star. So where have you been?
FLIGHTY
Death takes the form of a mutant macaw in this uneven film, co-starring a stellar Louis-Dreyfus.