Game of Thrones Episode 4: The Spoils of War
“I had forgotten what a small and noisy people they are…I would bring them dragons, and they shout out for grapes.” “Grapes are real. A Continue Reading
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Game of Thrones Season 7: The Queen’s Justice
And now the rains weep over his hall, without a soul to hear. “Rains of Castamere” is best known as the Lannister anthem, but it’s Continue Reading
Game of Thrones Season 7: Stormborn
It’s been said by many characters, in many words, all the way back to Robert Baratheon in the second episode of Game of Thrones. “There’s a Continue Reading
Game of Thrones Season 7: Dragonstone
Fitting a show with the finish line in sight, the season premiere of Game of Thrones was pervaded with melancholy. From siblings remembering their dead Continue Reading
Escape from New York: They Call Him Mr. Plissken
The gaps in my pop-culture knowledge are well documented. I never saw all three Godfather movies until 2013 and didn’t see Tron until 2008. There’s too much media, and Continue Reading
The Circle: She Loved Big Brother
The Circle is the second movie I’ve seen this year with an abysmal Rotten Tomatoes score that I’ve enjoyed (The first being the much-maligned Fifty Shades Darker). While Continue Reading
Netflix, ratings, and Lars von Trier
I want to talk about Netflix’s new ratings system, in the context of Danish auteur Lars von Trier. To date, I have seen three von Trier Continue Reading
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 20 Years of Bite
Into every generation… I got into Buffy the Vampire Slayer around 2002. Back when I still owned a TV. Netflix was DVD-only (and it’d be a year Continue Reading
Twilight: 50 Shades of OG
Sparkley vampires. Mormon references. Team Edward or Team Jacob? Badly written fan fiction. With its hold on the cultural zeitgeist, it’s hard to believe that Twilight was Continue Reading
50 Shades of Prettier Woman
Double Toasted recently ripped Kevin Smith’s Yoga Hosers on a premise that very much speaks to how I feel about 50 Shades Darker. In the DT review, they lamented Continue Reading
Millennium: 12 Monkeys 0.5
I vaguely remember watching 1989’s Millennium once in my childhood. While mostly a forgettable film, the ending stuck with me, with its booming voice-over narration making grand sweeping Continue Reading
Zombeavers: And the jokes write themselves
In a bit of a meta-moment, about halfway through Zombeavers, one of the main characters says “quit with the beaver jokes.” It’d be nice if this Continue Reading
The Fall: Men Who Hate Women
The evolution of television means that concepts get revisited every few years, adapted, improved upon. Sometimes when TV returns to an idea it makes the Continue Reading
A Way Too Late Year in Review: 2016
Apparently, this was the year I wrote about zombies. Lots of zombies. Fast zombies, slow zombies. Zombies on the big screen, the small screen, and Continue Reading
Arrival: Who’s on First?
It’s the day after and I’m still processing the events of Arrival, the new film by Denis Villeneuve. Atmospheric and chilling, Arrival is one of those films that Continue Reading
V for Vendetta: the Once and Future 1984
In 1985, author Neil Postman released Amusing Ourselves to Death, a treaty on political discourse in the mass media age. Postman argued that George Orwell’s vision of Continue Reading
The Millennium Trilogy: Sex, Death, IKEA
In 2011, David Fincher released The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, based on the first novel in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy. Fincher’s follow-up to The Social Network boasted an A-list cast, Continue Reading
Final Girl: Boring Vengeance
There’s a trope in horror movies: the final girl. The one left alive. Who confronts (and maybe defeats) the killer. The one left to tell Continue Reading
Queen of the Damned; King of Bad Adaptations
Is Anne Rice still a rite of passage for fledgling goth kids? The first four novels in her Vampire Chronicles series were required reading when I was Continue Reading
Dead Set: Big Brother is Eating Your Brains
Fun fact: I’m stingy with my Netflix ratings. Few movies or TV shows get five stars; most get three or four. A quick review of Continue Reading
The Killing Joke: Just as toxic when animated
The Killing Joke: It’s taken me a few weeks to process this movie. I needed time to decompress, to find the words behind how bad Continue Reading