TV TV Reviews

Elle Review

Since its premiere 25 years ago, Legally Blonde has managed to stay in the pop culture discourse, spawning a sequel, a Broadway musical, an MTV series about casting the replacement Elle Woods for the Broadway musical, and now, a prequel TV series about just what happened to Elle when she was forced to move from […]

TV TV Reviews

The Bear Season Five Post Mortem

This review contains spoilers for the final, fifth season of Hulu’s The Bear. Over the years, The Bear has struggled with cohesion. Its highs have been truly spectacular, providing episodes of television that will hold up for decades as examples of just what you can do with a single character or a single, unbroken shot. […]

Film Film Reviews

Leviticus Review

Although Jennifer Kent’s debut film, The Babadook, brought international attention to the Australian horror scene, little would come of it until nearly a decade later. Talk to Me kicked off the wave we’re currently riding, for better or for worse (mostly better). That’s fortunate for writer/director Adrian Chiarella, for while the involvement of Mia Wasikowska […]

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The Furious Review

Hong Kong was once at the forefront of action cinema the world over. While the ’80s were a time of maximalist, muscular blockbusters flooding out of the United States, the East Asian city (then a British colony) punched well above its weight. Following the work done by Bruce Lee and the Shaw Brothers to soften […]