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While it might not seem like it on the face of it, pulling off a successful heist series is about as complex as pulling off that heist in real life. You have to have compelling characters on each side of the story – we have to want to watch the criminal masterminds work and we […]
Well, that was a wholly satisfying – if not particularly earth-shattering – finale for a pretty great MCU series in VisionQuest. While this will likely remain my least favorite of the three pieces of the WandaVision trilogy, it was still a fun ride with some interesting emotional beats and a set-up for future appearances from Billy, Tommy, […]
Okay, so I wasn’t correct as to who the Client ended up being. But I was right that Vision’s real journey this season wasn’t about solving a problem or escaping some villain – it was about recognizing (much like the Tin Man) that he had that heart he was searching for (or, in his case, […]
I wasn’t a big fan of Stick, AppleTV’s Owen Wilson-led golf comedy, in its first season. While Wilson was solid, if not spectacular, playing a typical Owen Wilson character in Pryce “Stick” Cahill, the show’s paint by numbers writing and lack of any real emotional depth or stakes didn’t keep my interest. And I wasn’t planning […]
Lately, I’ve found myself complaining that new TV shows aren’t offering original storytelling – case in point, my recent review of the very derivative Nocturne. Well, I’m happy to report that Phony, the new mystery comedy from Hulu, actually has a pretty original story to tell. Okay, it’s not wholly original, but it manages to take […]
We’ve reached the final climb to the climax of VisionQuest – the Client (whose identity I think the show tipped with their dialogue this week – more on that in a minute) has decided not to kill Vision, should he come to them, Jocasta and Ultron have created their own unholy union* and unleashed the first […]
While watching the screeners for Nocturne, the upcoming psychological thriller series from AppleTV, I kept waiting to see when it would present the twist that would set it apart from every other story about a serial killer playing a cat and mouse game with a grizzled investigator. Unfortunately, that twist never materialized, and the series […]
There’s nothing all that suspenseful about the action within Elsinore. That’s the way of things when you’re watching a biopic that turns on a singular event: actor Ian Charleson (Andrew Scott) is determined to portray Hamlet on the stage of the National Theatre before he dies of AIDS. It really happened, it was – by all […]
The Liberation is a frustrating film. It had a series of truly spectacular performances to anchor the complex themes of the story – a story that is based on writer-director Guy Nattiv’s own grandmother’s life story. But it also has an incredibly unsatisfying ending – not unsatisfying in what happens in the film’s final fifteen […]
Oh Vision. Manipulated into giving up the controls to Ultron with a simple appeal to your burgeoning emotional attachment to Thomas. I expected more of you. And yet, that might just be the surest sign that White Vision is slowly but surely morphing into something much closer to The Vision – helped along with malicious […]