Fred Schruers

There was a time when spotting the resemblance of “Industry’”s corruption-adjacent characters to their real-life counterparts was more of a challenge. But with the current eight episodes of Season 4 fully unveiled, there’s now full overlap as global decay grows on both fronts. The Trump family business—er,

Perfect is the enemy of good.  It’s a common enough cliché, right? A phrase that has over time excused plenty of mediocre work, but also brought a welcome productivity to various ventures.  Notably in cinema, where even the legends among directors often judge their days by how many pages

Thanks to the IndieWire folks and Christian Blauvelt in particular for the assignment to memorialize the great, now departed Robert Duvall. A Manhattan afternoonI spent dining and strolling with him as he was releasing his doc "Angelo My Love" revealed just how companionable and witty he could be.

The monster’s power to sustain fear is incumbent upon its ability to reincarnate itself as an allegory of real anxieties. The Monster in Theatre History, Michael Chemers Yep--this isn’t one of those “feel-good” posts. The actual thesis that keeps pushing to the fore is more like this: who

Dear Readers, Thanks for the kind words on social regarding the "Pluribus" post, which ran double the usual post length thanks to added historical elements unveiling shared history with show creator Vince Gilligan. (Check it out for telling moments re his "Breaking Bad," "Better Call