About midway through Bong Joon-ho’s 2013’s apocalyptic class-warfare fable Snowpiercer, we get to the scene with the…
About midway through Bong Joon-ho’s 2013’s apocalyptic class-warfare fable Snowpiercer, we get to the scene with the…
Episode 1: The SWAT Team tries to serve a warrant on a suspect who failed to appear in court on a simple marijuana possession charge. After knocking out a wall with their armored assault vehicle Hondo shoots all the family pets. It is later determined that the suspect hasn’t lived there in 8 months.
Lady Bird is something truly special: a coming-of-age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most…
I’m a sucker for a good time loop story. “Magic To Make The Sanest Man Go Mad” is an okay one. The premise—Harry…
DuckTales has an appealing, eclectic cast of characters, but it struggles to focus them through a strong, viable…
The first two episodes of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s third season managed to tie together all the individual plot threads…
People keep on comparing it to TNG, personally, i find it more VGR the worst of the Treks and the Orville at its best still amounts to bad VGR.
Congrats to the Orville writing staff for doing a 45 minute adaption of that “SMART PHONES...DUMB PEOPLE!” image macro that everyone’s great uncle keeps posting on Facebook. Just as thought-provoking, too.
Sigh. Me afraid me have to agree. And me loved Zack’s reviews of earlier Trek series — they one of favorite things AVC ever did. But me very frustrated with Star Trek fans who not willing to let new show be new show and not retread of everything that came before.
In a lot of ways, you aren’t wrong, and I am a fan of simplistic, episodic cartoons. DuckTales is kind of billing itself as something more complex so I still want to lean on exploring depth and development when I can. Beaks is supposed to be a long-term villain, so I was indeed looking for something more than…
One of the great, blood-freezing moments in all of horror is Leatherface’s first appearance in the original Texas…
You’re all alone. You haven’t even been on the police force for that long, but here you are, disarmed and cut off…
Great review - and I know it’s a small thing, but I really appreciate the detail on injuries and graphic parts. I’ve been having a lot of problems lately with panic attacks in the cinema (never used to be this bad) and now I know that if I’d like to avoid that I can just rent the movie and fast forward as needed.…
The first thing we see and can never unsee in The Killing Of A Sacred Deer is a gaping chest cavity: flesh and bone…
Talk about déjà vu. Like an ornery weatherman stuck living the same day over and over again, ticket-buyers trudged…
Just about every movie by Noah Baumbach (Kicking And Screaming, Frances Ha) is a study of prickly personalities. But…
Dear god, my friend, it’s not hubris. If I had half a say I’d give you back community grades a week ago. This was the move to Kinja; I fucking swear we’re doing our best to improve it with each passing week (and WOW has it gotten better since the initial change), but every suggestion is legit something we try to push…
A new Adam Sandler movie arrives on Netflix this week. This is not a notable event; even the comedian’s aged base of…
“There are worse horror stories, too; people are reporting fights breaking out, lines blocking traffic...” people driving for 40 minutes and then spending an hour in line...
It looks like a purple popsicle melting in the sun: a three-story motel, decked out with pastel towers and spires,…