This review contains spoilers for Iron Fist season two. Iron Fist is far from a struggle. There were signs of a better Danny Rand (Finn Jones) in last year’s The Defenders, but Iron Fist season …
The X-Files Turns 25: Revisiting the Pilot Episode
A man smoking a cigarette attempts to blend into the background, just another company guy enforcing the rules. He never says a word; in fact, he’s pretty forgettable. Until the closing shot, that is. …
BlacKkKlansman Movie Review: Spike Lee delivers a powerful film for our time
Little subtlety can be found in BlacKkKlansman as Spike Lee draws harrowing parallels between the past and the here and now. In the 1970s, an African American detective of the Colorado Springs police …
Hot Summer Nights Review: Timothée Chalamet (sort of) saves this over-stylized drug trip
Hot Summer Nights aspires to be little more than a flipbook through the 90s. Carnivals, diners, and drive-in movie theaters make up most of the backdrop, but nothing ever feels authentic as the motiva…
Sicario: Day of Soldado Movie Review: More action, less nuance
As a sequel, Sicario: Day of Soldado stands on its own from predecessor Sicario, but it lacks the nuance of the other film. While there’s certainly more action in this new installment, the story…
Hereditary Movie Review: Ari Aster Has Created Something Terrifyingly Dreadful and Magnificent
Full disclosure — when it comes to horror, you’ll typically find me hiding behind my hands, but nothing has shaken me more than Ari Aster’s Hereditary. At just over two hours, it’s a…
The Magicians: Quentin Coldwater’s a Hero Just Like Us
“My entire life, ever since I first read Fillory and Further, I’ve been waiting for some powerful being to come down and say ‘Quentin Coldwater, you are The One.’ Every book, every movie, it’s a…