Posted on November 3, 2016

Best of Criterion’s New Releases, October 2016

Best of Criterion’s New Releases, October 2016


October’s slate of releases on The Criterion Collection is pretty great, but maybe don’t take that from me, because I am a Guillermo del Toro partisan: Take it from all of us at Paste Magazine’s Criterion round-up team. October isn’t just about del Toro, though it mostly is. It’s also about Kenji Mizoguchi, Luis García … Continue reading

TV Review: Luke Cage, Episodes 1.11, 1.12, & 1.13, “Now You’re Mine”/”Soliloquy of Chaos”/”You Know My Steez”

TV Review: Luke Cage, Episodes 1.11, 1.12, & 1.13, “Now You’re Mine”/”Soliloquy of Chaos”/”You Know My Steez”


Well: That’s it. Luke Cage‘s first season is over. It’s done. Finished. Complete.  It went out well. I struggled with episodes five through seven, and I wish that the show had bothered to bring in Diamondback sooner; to use Stokes’ knowledge of Luke’s real identity against him; to pit Luke’s ideal of Harlem against Stokes’ and … Continue reading