Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast #24: The Future of James Bond

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Review

It’s a far trickier thing than one might assume to adapt a stage play to film. After all, a play is written to be performed in the intimate medium of the theatre, with an audience sitting mere feet from the performers and the actors feeding off the energy through the immediate feedback provided by their […]

Britflix: Split Second

The stereotype of British cinema is usually prestigious period dramas and hilarious comedies. 1992’s Split Second offered something different: B-movie schlock. In the far-off year of 2008 Global Warming has flooded London. This has turned London into a rain-soaked, crime-ridden, rat-infected hellhole, so how London has always been. Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer) is a police detective […]

Widows Review

Widows is a remake of a British TV series, made by director Steve McQueen, giving the celebrated director a chance to add his social conscious into a mainstream film. Veronica Rawlings (Viola Davis) is the widow of Harry (Liam Neeson), a thief who was killed along with his whole crew when a job goes wrong. Harry […]