Katey Stoetzel
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film/tv critic across the web. former podcaster. TV Editor for The Young Folks. member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC). find me @kateypretzel

Jake Horowitz on making an authentic ‘B’ sci-fi film with “The Vast of Night”

One of the best films from last year’s festival circuit just hit Amazon Prime today. The Vast of Night, directed by Andrew Patterson, takes you back to 1950s New Mexico at the dawn of the space race, where technology and…

Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet finds moments of levity and humor in “Quarantine”

Productions may have shut down a few months ago, but that hasn’t stopped show creators from producing new content. Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet debuted a special quarantine episode yesterday on Apple TV+, only three months after airing a fantastic first…

Mad Max: Fury Road Five Years Later: What We Can Learn About Surviving Together

“Who killed the world?”  This question is splattered across the walls, carved into the floors, etched in dirt, and spoken aloud multiple times throughout George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road. In the middle of a post-apocalyptic wasteland, ravaged by nuclear war and…

Spaceship Earth Review: Innovation Meets Controversy, but Only for a Short While

In 1991, eight scientists voluntarily entered isolation for two years inside Bioshpere 2, a microcosm of the world meant to determine how humans might survive in outer space. The idea for the biosphere sprouted from the worry of climate change…

Schitt’s Creek series finale skips the goodbye in favor of see you later

A few hours after watching the Schitt’s Creek finale, I’m thinking about Fleabag. That little wave Fleabag gives us, the look back from a distance further than we’ve ever been from her. For two seasons we were her confidants, but…

TV’s best bottle episodes for our bottle episode life

As Abed Nadir says, this is starting to feel like a bottle episode.  In this time of quarantine and social distancing, it might be beneficial to look back at the very best bottle episodes of television. As we all settle…

Supernatural 15×12 “Galaxy Brain” Review: Doing the dumb, right thing, especially with the world at stake

It feels weird to be writing this like it’s business as usual. Supernatural returned Monday night, I’m still two days late on the review like always, and Chuck has this weird obsession with the Winchesters that I’m seriously starting to…