The CW is not shy about reimagining past series. Their series ‘No Tomorrow’ was based on a 12 episode Brazilian series’How to enjoy the end of the world’, Their series ‘Containment’ was based on the Belgian series ‘Cordon’, and nobody will be able to convince me their 2017 series ‘Frequency’had nothing to do with the…

I’ve watched a lot of Korean television recently. Its apparent from watching another culture’s media that being a nice person is a universal trait, being a fool is a universal trait, being compassionate is a universal trait, and being an unctuous douchebag is a universal trait. And being sadly mentally unbalanced is…

There’s that ‘Community’ gag line “Six seasons and a film” but how often do one-off films based on TV shows succeed, either artistically or commercially? The X-files film was a full 20 years ago. The film ‘Firefly’ was 15 years ago. Fans still speak bitterly about that ‘Sex and the City 2' film.

I’ve been trying to work out what’s been bothering me about this season (and half of the previous). The problem is the longer the series goes the SHALLOWER all of the characters become. There’s no humanity to them. They’re an assemblage of character traits being operated as joke factories. This is what you’d expect in…

The best you could say about the lighting and cinematography is it was ‘workmanlike’. The best you could say about the dialog and acting is it was ‘workmanlike’. The best you could say about the storyline and plotting is it was ‘workmanlike’. The best you could say about the music is it was ‘workmanlike’.

In 2010 Walking Dad could have been viewed as a metaphor for combat-related PTSD. A decade later its become a parable about the pitfalls of combining amoral governance with personal incompetence.

Some films have all the hallmarks of money laundering enterprises.

Attempting to blackmail a federal prosecutor will probably land them in prison for even more years than Trump himself!

There are few films that have experienced the reversal of opinion that Gladiator has. Originally highly lauded, it’s as though people only later began to recognize how unremittingly bleak, humorless and despairing the film was.

Many movies these days see theater release as a ‘loss-leader’, a part of the promotion of their film before they go on to make the REAL money on Netflicks or Redbox.

I interpreted Wells’ career as an object lesson in the perils of believing your own press. Young Wells was lauded as a genius, and perhaps he was. But the praise had a corrosive effect on him. With each successive project he seemed that much more desperate to justify his ‘genius’ status to the world. Each project…

I must say I also much preferred Blue (no disrespect for the others). That’s the film that stuck with me the longest. I managed to hunt it down and rewatch it just recently

I did not expect Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ to be #13. It features a bravura performance by a young Peter Lorre, back before he escaped the Nazis for Hollywood. I don’t think I’ve seen that film for more that 40 years.

I’m reminded of his mother-in-law Caitlyn saying she wanted to be president Ted Cruz’s trans ambassador. Do these people have the least clue about the pernicious social agenda their candidates are pushing?

A reminder, mr. bipolar’s name is no longer ‘Kayne West’. His name is Ye... or maybe its Yi. Or something like that. You no longer have a reason to ever use the name ‘Kayne West’ ever again.

Flash-forward episodes showed Bart grown up to be a sad loser with a drugs problem. That’s what did it for me. All of the family travail, all of the ‘learning-and-growing’ life lessons at the end of each episode were all for nothing. No-account bum Bart for me was like the last episode of LOST. It retrospectively cast…

Hallyuwood today reminds me of Hollywood in the late 70s when we were treated to auteur film makers like Mike Nichols, Robert Altman, and the pre-disgrace Polanski and Allen. Often the script writer is as much a celebrity as the director. Fans follow the careers of popular script writers the way one might an author.…

I came here any hyped the computer game company I work for. In a way that could be classed a ‘life support’.

I read recently that Halloween is slowly spreading through South Korea, mostly due to people who had gone to college in the US. But the zeitgeist is different. In Buddhist culture when you talk ‘ghosts’ you’re talking our own revered ancestors who you offer food to in family ceremonies. American culture, by contrast,…

It was AT&T that deliberately murdered the Asian TV streaming site Drama Fever last week. So ‘curse you, AT&T’ indeed. Rumor is they’re planning  to kill HBO next. All to give you no option but to use THEIR streaming service.