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Now that? That was more like it. Was it a bit overstuffed in terms of trying to get every character – and several supporting characters – their moment in the sun? Sure. Could I have done without the influx of romantic subplots (outside of the continual great partnership between Pike and Batel)? Yeah. But, you […]
Eddington is Ari Aster’s fourth feature film. This time, he satires politics during the COVID pandemic. Joe Cross (Joaquin Phoenix) is the sheriff of Eddington in New Mexico. He has political differences regarding the mayor’s, Ted Garcia (Pedro Pascal), COVID policy. Joe also has personal issues with Ted due to Ted’s previous relationship with Joe’s […]
Welcome to the year of the romcom! Much has been made of the genre’s disappearance from the theatrical experience. True, they still flood streaming services, with Netflix distributing the best of recent years in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man. But with the exception of Anyone But You, few have made any noise either at the box […]
As someone who firmly believes that BoJack Horseman is one of the greatest television shows of the 21st century (and probably of all time), I was beyond excited to hear that BoJack’s creator and showrunner Raphael Bob-Waksberg was back at Netflix with a new series. Sure, there aren’t any anthropomorphized characters in this one – […]
I’ll admit that I didn’t even remember that Upload, the intriguing if uneven, Prime Video comedy series had been granted a four-episode final season to wrap up the pretty intense cliffhanger we were left with at the end of season three. After all, it’s been nearly two years since season three dropped on the streamer. […]
Alien is an enduring franchise and gets its first TV spin-off with Alien: Earth, with Noah Hawley, the showrunner of Fargo and Legion, taking on the challenge. In 2120, five corporations control Earth, and there is a race to gain immortality through technology. On an island controlled by the Prodigy Corporation, five terminally ill children […]
The risk you take, from a showrunning perspective, in setting up a standalone episode from the point of view of a recurring guest star who has only tangentially touched the story up until this point in the season is that whatever emotional pivot the episode requires from him will only work if we know him […]
Bob Odenkirk returns to his action role as Hutch Mansell. This time, Hutch and his family experience an eventful vacation. Hutch has returned to government service to pay back his debt after burning the Russian Mafia’s cash. However, Hutch has grown bored with killing people, and the job keeps him away from his family. Hutch […]
Mike Flanagan adapts a Stephen King story for the third time with The Life of Chuck. He steps out of his horror comfort zone. The Life of Chuck is a film split into three acts. “Thanks, Chuck” shows an ex-married couple, Marty Anderson (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Felicia Gordon (Karen Gillan), just as the world suffers […]
After a couple of fake trailers for amusingly dumb horror flicks, it was a genuine surprise that the opening of the film was shot from Jimmy’s (writer/director Joe Begos) perspective. We’re along for the ride in real-time as Jimmy putters and mutters about his apartment, doing coke and smoking grass and downing whiskey and watching […]