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“‘The Afterparty’ Review: Lord & Miller’s Apple TV+ Series Takes A Laid-Back Approach To Genre-Hopping”
How odd to watch a Miller & Lord thing and think: “Well, that was low-key.” Continue reading
Sundance 2022: Review Round-Up
Coming in just in time at (checks notes) a month and change since the festival wrapped. Continue reading
“The Most Dazzling Sci-Fi Movie Of 2021 Reveals A Dark Internet Truth”
Beauty, Beast, bad times on the interwebs. Continue reading
“George Clooney’s Sentimentality Can’t Prop Up ‘The Tender Bar'”
The tender blah. Continue reading
“‘Agnes’ Review: The Genre Subversion Of This Horror Nunspolitation Compels You”
Agnes / Beyond power of speech / When the one thing you want / Is the only thing out of your reach
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“Faith-Filled Kurt Warner Biopic ‘American Underdog’ Is Surprisingly Fine, If Not Good”
Yeah, I’m as surprised as you are. Continue reading
“‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ Reveals The Biggest Problem With ‘Game Of Thrones'”
How do you say “Denzel Washington is the coolest” in Shakespearean? Continue reading
“‘Station Eleven’ TV Review: HBO Max’s Post-Apocalyptic Drama Is Essential Discomfort Viewing”
But first, you have to watch stations 1 – 10 to understand it. Continue reading
“‘The Unforgivable’s Title Is Truth in Advertising”
I won’t ask your forgiveness for the delay posting this; I WILL ask for your thanks. Continue reading
“The Reason To See Apple’s Underrated ‘See’ Is A Badass Blind Swordsman”
A profile of a great actor playing a great character, but also a rare admission that I was wrong. Continue reading
“‘Being the Ricardos’ Sags Under the Sorkin of It All”
This could have been a good movie, but the writer-director couldn’t help Sorkin all the oxygen out of the room. Continue reading
“‘The Summit Of The Gods’ Review: In Patrick Imbert’s Breathtaking Animated Film, Everest Is The True Star”
Sorta like the nectar of the gods and manna from heaven, but with more near-death experiences. Continue reading
“‘The Hand of God,’ The Eyes of a Boy”
It’s a hand, but made into a fist, but with a single digit raised, and guess which one? Continue reading
’14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible’ Aims High But With Too Broad A Scope [Review]’
If nothing is impossible, then why wasn’t it possible to make a good movie out of this story? Continue reading
“‘The Feast’ Review: Lee Haven Jones Mixes Various Horror Tastes To Create A Delightfully Welsh Fright”
A feast for the soul…of Wales. This excerpt was the best I could do, I apologize. Continue reading
“5-LP Set ‘Highway Butterfly’ Gathers Friends to Honor Neal Casal’s Music and Life”
Maybe one of the biggest albums of 2021, in literal terms. And figurative. Continue reading
“Wendell B. Harris, Jr.’s Extraordinary ‘Chameleon Street’ Still Strikes A Nerve 30 Years Later”
A street that looks like every other street. Because…chameleon. Get it? Continue reading
“Courtney Barnett Slows Down and Finds Happiness in Little Things on ‘Things Take Time, Take Time'”
Records this good don’t just happen overnight, so musicians: Take all the time you need. Continue reading
“Adam Ethan Crow’s Haunted Airbnb Story ‘Lair’ Needs Stronger Layers”
Welcome to Adam Ethan Crow’s Airbnb LAIR. Continue reading