TV Review: Black Mirror 3×01 “Nosedive”

To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. With its premier episode airing so close to Halloween, a day where our fears of the unknown become their most pronounced, Black Mirror steadily reminds us that the things that should scare us…

Movie Review: ‘Misconduct’

The best scene in Shintaro Shimosawa’s Misconduct comes about one-third of the way in. Hotshot lawyer Ben (Josh Duhamel) has been handed the keys to a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit against a corrupt pharmaceutical company which tampered with recent…

Movie Review: ‘Dirty Weekend’

I spent the majority of Neil LaBute’s Dirty Weekend with my glasses pushed up to my forehead and my thumb and forefinger crammed into my eye sockets. Recently cringe comedy has dominated large swaths of American media: Steve Carell’s antics…