TV Review: Once Upon a Time 4×15 “Enter the Dragon”

I’ve been waiting for an episode of Once Upon a Time to reel me back in since the second half of the season started three weeks ago. I wanted that feeling I got when I binge-watched it on Netflix. But…

TV Review: Once Upon a Time 4×13 “Darkness on the Edge of Town”

Once Upon a Time is back for the second half of season 4 and as a person who has binge-watched all the seasons in just a couple of months, I’m not sure how I feel about this one. For a…

Performances in 2014 That Were Overlooked or Underrated

Okay, so obviously the Oscars aren’t the end-all-be-all of cinema. A movie can be great without being an Oscar movie; a movie can be nominated for Best Picture and can subjectively be considered shit. Sometimes the Academy gets it right,…

Women in Film Wednesday: Belle (2014)

For a year so tediously bereft of meaty stories about women, it’s nice to find the rare story about a woman and directed by a woman as well. This week I’m talking about this year’s film, Belle, which did beautifully for…

Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Belle’ is aesthetically beautiful, but socially superficial

Looking back on history, it’s sometimes easy to overlook how hideous and heinous our human history is when there was so much aesthetically pleasing that came from it. Thinking back now, it hard to stomach the idea that people were…