Well, here we are at the final seven-episode stretch of Supernatural. It’s been quite a journey and, after a brief COVID-19-related hiatus, the beginning of the end started with a bottle episode. “Last Holiday” makes the timeline a bit confusing…
‘Enola Holmes’ review: Netflix’s charming addition to a new Sherlock Holmes canon
Enola Holmes is the joy we needed from 2020. Watching the trailer, it seemed like we were getting a lighthearted version of a Sherlock Holmes detective story; instead the film lands in charming waters but manages to provide some deep…
The Boys 2×05 Review: Celebrity, the Media, and Reality Converge in “We Gotta Go Now”
After dropping the first three episodes of season two at once a couple of weeks ago, The Boys is on a weekly schedule at Amazon Prime, a format that has some folks of the fandom up in arms. For me,…
The Boys 2×04 Review: “Nothing Like It in the World” shows the importance of our similarities
“Nothing Like It in the World,” The Boys’ fourth episode of season two, takes time for some small human connections that are a welcome reprieve from the action of the past few episodes. A quick sing-a-long to “We Didn’t Start…
The Rental Movie Review: Dave Franco delivers a decent enough horror thriller
The Rental, Dave Franco’s directorial debut, offers some entertaining horror value in certain respects, but suffers from a lack of meaningful and interesting characters to round out the horror scenario. It’s cast is pretty great: Charlie (Dan Stevens) and Michelle…
The Umbrella Academy Season 2 Embraces Forgiveness and the Past
There’s a strange lack of concern for the end of the world in The Umbrella Academy season one. The seven Hargreeves siblings spend so much time fighting and their inability to recognize each other’s trauma as well as their own…
Archive Movie Review: A Slick Character-Driven Sci-Fi Film
Archive, written and directed by Gavin Rothery, takes on the moral quandrys of how far we’re willing to go for loved ones, even after they’ve passed on. In the year 2038, robots are a fixture in society, serving in households…
