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: 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
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
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
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
Mockingjay Part 2: Hush Little Baby
Let’s do the math. If Mockingjay: Part 1 and Mockingjay Part: 2 were one film, it’d have a running time of 260 minutes, nearly four-and-a-half hours of material. If you’re Continue Reading
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Silliness
Blame bad timing. Stuck in development hell for five years, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was released a week before fellow dev. hell project Deadpool. While the latter movie has Continue Reading
Catwoman In Name Only
Catwoman has been in my Netflix queue for a while now, but I knew I wasn’t going to get through it without copious amounts of alcohol. Continue Reading
Not Binging Jessica Jones: Episode 13, Finale
Warning: Spoiler-y Spoilers As I’m writing my final thoughts on Season One of Jessica Jones, it’s the end of January and the show has just been Continue Reading
Not Binging Jessica Jones: Episode 12
The last few episodes of Jessica Jones have featured a series of tough choices. While Jessica was prepared to capture Kilgrave, with the death of Hope she Continue Reading
The Last Unicorn: Early Eighties Animated Magic
There’s something about the animation style of The Last Unicorn that is all-or-nothing for most people. The detailed backgrounds and ethereal depictions of humans will either impress Continue Reading
Not Binging Jessica Jones: Episode 11
For all the intensity Jessica Jones puts out, there are episodes that feature more stillness than most. Chances where the story gets the chance to breathe and Continue Reading
Not Binging Jessica Jones: Episode 10
I know I’ve been harping on the intensity of the last several Jessica Jones episodes, but with good reason, I feel. From episode 7 on Jessica’s attempts Continue Reading
Not Binging Jessica Jones: Episode 9
Once the gloves come off, they stay off, at least in Jessica Jones’ world. Episode 9 “AKA Sin Bin” takes the intensity of the last Continue Reading
Not Binging Jessica Jones: Episode 8
It finally happened. Eight episodes in and Jessica Jones finally calls the trauma she suffered at Kilgrave’s hands what it was: rape. Only Kilgrave doesn’t see it Continue Reading
Not Binging Jessica Jones: Episode 7
This episode changes everything. Jessica Jones episode 7 “AKA Top Shelf Perverts” is the proverbial point of no return. This episode isn’t for the squeamish. It contains Continue Reading
Constantine: Hell is LA and other Cliches
Financially successful if creatively flawed, 2005’s Constantine is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it’s chock-full of Hollywood stereotypes and seems like it was developed by Continue Reading
Not Binging Jessica Jones: Episode 6
I must admit, I took a break from watching Jessica Jones. While it’s some of the best television currently out there, it’s too dark for the holiday Continue Reading
Not Binging Jessica Jones: Episode 5
It must be the timing, or lack thereof, that gives Marvel its villain problem. With the exception of Loki, all of Marvel’s movie villains have Continue Reading
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