“The 20 Best Performances Of 2020”

Turns out that a bunch of actors did a lot of good acting in 2020, imagine that. Continue reading →

“The 25 Best Movie Performances of 2018”

For your consideration: A whole heapin’ helpin’ of real good performances in real good movies. My picks here: Brady Jandreau, Joaquin Phoenix, Kiki Layne & Stefan James, and Ben Foster & Thomasin McKenzie. Maybe the last two feel like cheats, and in a way they are. But in a totally different way they’re not, because … Continue reading →

Interview: Steven Yeun, Mayhem

I won’t lie to you, folks: I really enjoyed speaking to Steven Yeun, best known to most as Glenn on The Walking Dead, a show I gave up on a long, long time ago but bitterly missed because, among other things, Yeun is awesome. But fear not! He’s doing a-okay post-TWD, thanks to roles in movies … Continue reading →

TV Review: The Walking Dead, 2.8 & 2.9: Nebraska/Triggerfinger

  Two weeks ago, AMC’s The Walking Dead made its mid-season return to the air after a brief hiatus. I’m not at all worried about spoilers at this point– if you like the show, you saw what happened in the cliffhanger ending of 2.7, and if you haven’t watched the show then you shouldn’t be … Continue reading →

TV Review: The Walking Dead, 2.7: Pretty Much Dead Already

And so the first half of The Walking Dead‘s second season ends with a bang, and not some pathetic whimper. (Note: If you haven’t seen this episode, don’t bother reading past this point; the episode’s climax is central to this article.) If the writing staff puts their heads together and does nothing but produce episodes … Continue reading →

TV Review: The Walking Dead, 2.4 & 2.5: Cherokee Rose/Chupacabra

Full disclosure: I took a break from writing about The Walking Dead last week entirely due to Cherokee Rose being so utterly boring. When TV critics raise eyebrows at the progression of the series, it’s precisely due to the sloppy writing and pacing running rampant through 2.4; very literally, nothing happens throughout the entire forty minute block that … Continue reading →

TV Review: The Walking Dead, 2.3: Save the Last One

Save the Last One suffers from one major problem: telegraphing. I rather liked the episode overall, and feel that it keeps up the narrative push and character development which made Bloodletting so good, but 2.3 gives away a pretty shattering end-of-episode reveal in its opening scrawl. I don’t know that that particular misstep ruins the episode, but Phil Abraham’s … Continue reading →

TV Review: The Walking Dead, 2.1 & 2.2: What Lies Ahead/Bloodletting

Last year, AMC’s runaway success story The Walking Dead hit the ground running with a promising first half that petered out and turned into something muddled and disappointing yet still brimming with potential. I admit that for a show like this, I’m an easy sell; I’m a zombie connoisseur, an aficionado of all things shambling, groaning, … Continue reading →