Caroline Siede's posts

I can’t buy a watermelon without thinking of Dirty Dancing. In one of the film’s funniest scenes, resort guest…

On first watch, My Super Ex-Girlfriend seems like it’s building to a subtle visual punchline. Each time…

“You’re a newspaperman.” 

From choreographing Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off to helming Newsies, Hocus Pocus, High School Musical, …

Note: The writer of this review watched The Broken Hearts Gallery from home on a digital screener. Before making…

The 1970s are a hallowed time in film history. As the classic studio system gave way to the rebellious innovations…

It only took three years for Edward Norton to solidify his entire Hollywood persona. After his explosive debut in Pri…

Just about everyone agrees that 1999 was a great year for movies. We here at The A.V. Club do not beg to differ: We…

Stargirl’s impressive debut season has had two big things going for it: A sense of surprise and a welcome commitment…

The best episodes of The Umbrella Academy tend to feature the Hargreeves saying “yes and” rather than “no but.” It’s…

Though “743” is the penultimate episode of the season, in many ways it feels like the climax. It seems to wrap up…

A lot of my praise for this season of The Umbrella Academy has come with the caveat that I just have to have faith…

The Umbrella Academy isn’t particularly great at plot. For instance, “Öga For Öga” is a pointless runaround story…

Two episodes in a row where The Umbrella Academy’s characters actually sit down and have a full conversation? Be…

“Hell yeah, family meeting!” You took the words right out of my mouth, Diego. Halfway through season two someone…

After an early test screening of The Little Mermaid, Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg had one big…

More so than any other live action superhero series I’ve ever seen, the opening of “Stars & S.T.R.I.P.E. Part One”…

“That’s the thing about the Commission, isn’t it? Some things just don’t make sense, until they do.”

“The Swedish Job” takes on a tall order. It wants to move the show’s central apocalypse story forward, deliver some…

The Commission has never been my favorite element of The Umbrella Academy. Though Cha-Cha and especially Hazel had…