The past is something we tend to cling to like a security blanket. When we discuss something awful, we hold it up as a clear mark, a blemish, a black spot on the soul of humanity – something that we won’t do ever again. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it […]
Tag: Jean Smart
Watchmen – If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own Review
This week’s rather straightforward episode of Watchmen (if any episode of Watchmen can ever truly be classified as “straightforward”) opened with a mixed homage to another superhero of the DC universe: Superman. The Clark family, childless Oklahoma farmers, are given a child right before something crashes down from the sky and lands in their cornfield. […]
Watchmen – She Was Killed By Space Junk Review
So remember how I said in my review of the premiere episode of Watchmen that I wasn’t going to delve too much into the past iterations of the source material? It only took three episodes for me to have to break that promise. After an episode as steeped in the history of masked heroes like […]
A Simple Favor Review
Based on a novel by Darcey Bell A Simple Favor is the latest film to capitalise on the rise of psychological thrillers as another small American town suffers another missing persons case. Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick) is a single mum and a vlogger, a nerd who wears clothing with cats on them, overly eager to volunteer for […]