“‘Foundation’ Brings Isaac Asimov’s Unfilmable Vision To Apple TV+ With Overwhelming Purpose”

A show so jam-packed with show, I could hardly absorb it all at once. Continue reading →

The 20 Best “Mad Men” Episodes

I don’t need to explain this one, do I? Mad Men turned 10 years old yesterday. The TV writing staff at Paste Magazine wrote about its best episodes; I specifically wrote about Pete Campbell getting knocked the fuck out by Lane Pryce, and also about the time Sterling Cooper became Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Nothing complicated, … Continue reading →

Review: The Ward, 2011, dir. John Carpenter

More than fear, the great takeaway of The Ward is disbelief. How could the man responsible for 1982’s masterwork The Thing have it in him to churn out something so horrid as this? It’s hard to see anything of the John Carpenter of twenty-nine years ago in his latest offering, the first cinematic effort he’s made in a … Continue reading →