The crew learned many things in Despite Yourself, the half-season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery. Not only is the unknown destination they found themselves in last episode a parallel universe, but there’s an enemy to meet, and it is them.…
Movie Review: The Post
Steven Spielberg’s latest offering The Post is certainly a Very Relevant Movie, and it takes a few too many pains to inform audiences just how relevant. It’s easy to see why, as many of its themes, such as, say, a…
Movie Review: Mudbound
It’s the rare film that is able to combine love, optimism, and realism so well. Mudbound is very aware of how transformative friendship can be. It can overcome obstacles both within and without, and help us understand each other even in…
Amazon Acquires TV Rights To ‘Lord of the Rings’
Yet another chapter in the history of unnecessary remakes has begun. And this one may be even more unnecessary than most. This time it comes courtesy of Amazon, who has just announced that it’s bought the television rights to The…
Star Trek: Discovery 1×06 Review: “Lethe”
Once again, Captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) is proving to be a hard man to keep rooting for. Last episode, he left a man behind to be tortured and killed in a Klingon prison. Granted, we all know he’s an…
Star Trek: Discovery 1×05 Review: “Choose Your Pain”
It took a little while for Star Trek: Discovery to have a bad episode, but it is here, and it is just so terrible, not even a fun performance by the reliably great Rainn Wilson can save it, hampered as…
