A bloody, beaten-up man in nothing but a jacket and towel, holding a briefcase, blinks out of existence in the middle of a city bus. This is how episode four, “Man on the Moon,” of Netflix’s The Umbre…
Shazam! Movie Review: A delightful superhero romp about the importance of family
Shazam! is hard to hate. Not that there’s much to dislike as one of the most fun films you’ll see at the theater this year. Which is why breaking the film down to its faults (and there are…
Supernatural 14×14-16 Review: Plot’s out, character-driven journeys in
It’s now impossible to talk about Supernatural without also talking about the end. For a show that seemed like it was going to last well beyond our years, last Friday’s announcement from s…
Triple Frontier Movie Review: Brotherly bonds can’t save this dull action thriller
Triple Frontier is an action thriller, bro, a real edge-of-your-seat heist film, bro, and also really sticks it to the man when it dares to mention how much veterans are left behind in society, bro. B…
Mapplethorpe Movie Review: Semi-successful reel of the legendary photographer
Robert Mapplethorpe wanted to live after death, and he did, in a way, since his photographs were the lasting mark he left on the world. But to anyone outside the art landscape, Mapplethorpe, or t…
The Vast of Night Review: A small-scale alien abduction tale worthy of ‘The Twilight Zone’
Alien invasion stories are nothing knew to the film canon with plenty of history to contend with when attempting to bring new life to the genre. What The Vast of Night, directed by Andrew Patterson, d…
Happy Death Day 2U Review: Multiverse theories join time loops for a dinner party with slasher thrillers
During Happy Death Day, as Tree (Jessica Rothe) kept dying and starting her day over, I couldn’t get past the total lack of clarity of why this was happening to this particular character. There&…