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I have amassed a number of television pet peeves in my time working as a critic, but near the top of the list is episodes in a serialized show that exist solely to be a bridge to the major climax of a season. Now, I’m not talking about an episode that takes narrative strides to […]
Punch Club is a game from the Lithuanian developers Lazy Bear Games. They combine sports management and life simulation into a pop culture-laden packet. In Punch Club the player takes the role of an aspiring fighter whose father was killed when he was a child. He sets out to be the best fighter in the world and find […]
Pixar returns to Riley’s mind for another coming-of-age odyssey that features a wide array of emotions in a sequel to Inside Out. Riley (Kensington Tallman) is now 13 and set to start high school. She gets invited by Coach Roberts (Yvette Nicole Brown), the coach of the high school hockey team to attend a three-day training camp. […]
For a story that only has so many big moments – and one that already exists fully-formed in book form with all those moments laid out clearly – I honestly didn’t expect that the second season premiere of House of the Dragon would give us one of them right out of the gate. But that’s […]
We’ve come to the close of this season of Doctor Who, which means that it’s time for Russell T. Davies to dive into the lingering mysteries of the season, hopefully offering explanations that make sense (and resonate on a deeper, character-driven level of storytelling). With part one of the two-part season finale, we get the […]
If you’ve followed any of the social media posting around The Acolyte, you’ve probably heard that this week’s episode, “Destiny,” was going to “break Star Wars.” Well, we’ve all seen it now, and I think we can agree* that while the episode injected some interesting new mythology into the world of Star Wars, it definitely […]
The Boys are back in town and yes, season four of the Prime series contains everything you’ve loved about past seasons of this series – and many of the same issues that started to seep into the storytelling in season three. It’s been two years since we last saw our heroes and villains – the […]
Before I embarked on my television critic career, I was a lawyer. Which means I have a heck of a hard time watching legal shows without finding myself yelling at the screen as they butcher the practice of law in order to make it seem suspenseful or at all interesting (because, in reality, being a […]
The Watchers is a supernatural horror film based on a novel by A. M. Shine and serves as the feature film debut for Ishana Night Shyamalan, daughter of M. Night Shyamalan. Mina (Dakota Fanning) is an American woman working in a pet shop in Galway. She’s tasked to deliver a golden parrot to a zoo in […]
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for a fourth entry in the Bad Boys series. This time the buddy duo are forced to go on the run and clear their names. Mike Lowrey (Smith) has done something his friends never thought he would: settle down and marry a nice woman. But Mike is haunted by the death of […]