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

Movie Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs wrote his book Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children around a set of vintage photos he had found at various flea markets. Each photo had children in them, but there was something, well peculiar about them — one girl floated inches above…

TV Review: Pitch Series Premiere

I was on board with Pitch all the way up until the end. Except for the parts where Ginny Baker’s father is unusually quiet while sitting in the stands of Ginny’s first Major League game, I was surprisingly enjoying Pitch. Then…

All That Matters Is What You Do: Heroism in Angel

Welcome to our newest bi-weekly column, Prime Time, where different writers pick some of their favorite past shows and talk about what made them standout from the crowd. To read past installments, go here.  There’s a moment in the pilot…

TV Review: Animal Kingdom Season 1 Finale “What Have You Done”

“What Have You Done” is an odd finale episode, but I rather enjoyed it for the way it wrapped up its main conflicts, especially J’s part of the story. J, who started the season off as timid, shy, and lost…

TV Review: Animal Kingdom (1×9) “Judas Kiss”

Animal Kingdom has had its fair number of decent episodes this first season, but none have felt so economically controlled as episode nine, “Judas Kiss.” Every scene had the right amount of momentum to move us seamlessly into the next scene,…

TV Movie Review: Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens

This is your annual reminder that another Sharknado film premiered on Syfy this week titled Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens. Get it? Like Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Haha. Yeah. Okay. Moving on. Every year for the past four years, we’ve gotten a Sharknado film and every…

TV Review: ‘Animal Kingdom’ (1×8) “Man In”

It’s all about fathers on Animal Kingdom’s eighth episode “Man In,” as we sort of knew going in from last week’s preview of J asking if Baz is his dad. We didn’t get an answer, for which I’m grateful. Like I said,…