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Swiped is now available to stream on Hulu in the United States. As an installment in her filmography, Swiped represents a major leap forward for director Rachel Lee Goldenberg. Coming up from direct-to-video entries for The Asylum and made-for-TV Lifetime movies, Goldenberg launched two more prominent features in 2020 with Valley Girl and Unpregnant, only for their rollouts to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Five years later, she now has Disney money to spend (although under the 20th Century Studios name) with Swiped, certainly her most high profile project yet, garnering a Toronto Film Festival premiere before launching on Hulu and Disney+ worldwide. However, the end result is a decent film that could have been stronger if it were willing to take as many risks as its subject. Swiped tells the story of Whitney Wolfe (she took the name Herd after marrying Michael Herd in 2017), famous for her integral role in Tinder’s rise and also for being the founder and CEO of Bumble. A...

Full spoilers follow for Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 5 - “Back to the Suture.” We open this week’s episode with another Rick Flag Jr. flashback, albeit one where he’s dead and Jennifer Holland’s Harcourt is attending his wake. It’s a pretty sad affair by the looks of it, and not just because Rick Jr. (Joel Kinnaman) has passed; the place is full of empty chairs and, as Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) says to Harcourt, the people who are in attendance are “assholes who Ricky couldn’t fucking stand.” There but for the grace of God… But the scene is really about Rick Sr. and Harcourt, and the connection that formed between them in the wake of a mutual loved one’s death. There’s a real William Adama/Starbuck thing going on with these two, but while a strong bond and sense of loyalty were the result of the tragedy those two suffered, in the case of Harcourt and Rick Sr., things are a little less clear-cut. It sure seems as though, by the end of the flashback, Harcourt trusts Rick Sr....