“‘See’ Season 2: Jason Momoa’s AppleTV+ Series Still Feels Like A ‘Games Of Thrones’ Knockoff”

Have you seen “See”? Do you see what I “See”? See what I mean about “See”? Continue reading →

“‘Sweet Girl’: Jason Momoa Takes On The Pharma Industry & Loses… Badly”

Momoa, more problems. Continue reading →

Review: Aquaman, 2018, dir. James Wan

Preamble: Man, the DCEU movies are fucking bad. (Excepting Wonder Woman, which is good until it’s bad.) …okay, got that out of the way. Aquaman kinda rocks. Like Wonder Woman, Aquaman cradles its share of flaws and bad creative decisions, most of them involving the totally great Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who deserves to be a big huge movie star and … Continue reading →

Review Round-Up: A Bad Batch Of Small Crimes In Little Boxes

(What do any of these movies have in common with each other? Little and less, but maybe you can draw some links from one to the other to the third, especially between the first and the last in the round-up. Or maybe not. There’s not much that gooey indie dramedies, harsh crime stories, and acid-trip … Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, 2.9 & 2.10: Blackwater/Valar Morghulis

Game of Thrones’ second season came to a close last week. This week, I finally get around to talking about it. How did season two measure up to one? Where is it taking us? What did it do well, and what could have been done better? Also: the folly of kings. Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, episodes 9 & 10

Well, I’ll say this for the marketing team behind Game of Thrones— they can’t be accused of false advertising. Baelor and Fire and Blood wrap up the first season of the series, and what a pair of episodes they are. I don’t think I need to warn anyone reading this of imminent spoilers, so with … Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, episodes 6-8

In this exciting installment, we discuss A Golden Crown, You Win or You Die, and The Pointy End. With episodes six, seven, and eight of Game of Thrones, Benioff and Weiss have brought out the proverbial fan, ostensibly so that the shit introduced in the above trifecta of episodes has something to hit. And hit … Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, Episodes 4-5

(In which I talk of Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things and The Wolf and the Lion.) Well, things are picking up quite nicely in the enthralling political and social dramas unfolding in Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea, aren’t they? As I said in the last installment, Game of Thrones‘ first few episodes … Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, Episodes 1-3

“Quality” and “HBO original series” tend to go hand in hand, and for good reason. The Home Box Office has a well-established track record of excellence in its programming, from the iconic and hugely successful Sopranoes, to more short-lived but no less excellent shows such as Deadwood and Carnivale. So the idea of HBO offering … Continue reading →