A supernatural thriller from renowned Norwegian director Joachim Trier, Thelma tells the story of the eponymous character (Eili Harboe) moving away from her conservative Christian family to attend university in Oslo. It is a bleakly atmospheric film throughout, and the audience is subjected to disjointed visions and revealing flashbacks scattered amongst the surrealist plot. Thelma […]
Fact: There is too much television for any sane human to watch. Fact: Netflix isn’t making it any easier by releasing new projects weekly (in some cases, daily). So, in the interest of helping people cut through the mess of new Netflix programs, I’m going to do a monthly check-in with what’s new (and worth […]
It’s the end of the holiday season which means it must be time for another dark and twisted trip into the world of Charlie Booker’s Black Mirror. Offering up its second season for Netflix (and its fourth overall), Black Mirror was, once again, a bit of a mixed bag with this most recent outing. However, […]
Star Wars – a series that is a license to print money and has one of the most devoted and hardest to please fanbases. Now the eighth film in the official series (excluding spin-offs) has to face the love and wrath of the fans. The Resistance is on its knees; only a few hundred fighters are left and […]
Due to a mix-up with screeners, I’ve spent the last 48 hours mainlining the second season of The Crown in an effort to complete my review prior to its December 8th premiere, and I have been successful. Having watched the full ten-episode season, I can happily report that the series remains just as successful on […]
Within comic book fan circles, superhero crossovers often get a bad rap. Annual DC Comics events like Doomsday Clock have become de rigueur, thereby robbing the crossover of its specialness. Thankfully, this hasn’t (yet) been a problem for the mini DC Universe set within a quartet of CW shows: Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, […]
Warner Bros’ long-awaited and troubled production of Justice League has finally been released in theaters and the reception has been mixed. It was also a troubled production with some speculating that it was the DCEU’s last chance and changed director during the middle of post-production. Yet this is nothing compared to what happened to Justice League: Mortal in 2008. […]
The DC Universe has not done itself any favors over the five feature-length films introduced since The Dark Knight trilogy. This brand has deservedly earned the reputation as less than quality productions and as the second best superhero series to its cousin, Marvel. Many of these issues lie within the dark influence and style of […]
This season of Supergirl hasn’t been successful when focusing on present events, so why not experience a blast from the past? At least that’s the theory at work in the flashback episode “Midvale,” named after the town where Kara and Alex grew up. The Danvers sisters revisit the old burg so that Alex can lick […]
For an episode that follows up the cliffhanger from the end of the excellent fifth season, “Fallout” struggled to explain why leaving its audience on edge was the right choice to make. Arrow is now in its sixth season and the need for a major shake up is an all time high. Now would have […]
