Racing out of the gates during season one and season two Prison Break faltered in season three and nearly collapsed in season four. In Season four we see Michael (Wentworth Miller) seeking revenge for…
Movie Review: Silence
Like a good deal of Martin Scorsese’s films, Silence handles the subject of faith in a complex and humanistic way; the legendary American filmmaker transmutes the torment, humiliation and suffering of…
TV Review: Emerald City Series Premiere – “The Beast Forever” + “Prison of the Abject”
After many long years of rewrites and push-backs due to “creative differences,” Emerald City has finally reached network television. Although the show possesses strong and ambitious elements, it is ev…
Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga Make History in ‘Loving’ Trailer
After impressing critics with his science fiction road trip, Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols is back with an even more tender story. Loving tells the true story of an interracial couple, Richard and …
Movie Review: ‘Embrace of the Serpent’
There’s a scene early in Embrace of the Serpent where a German ethnographer, Theo (Jan Bijvoet), has his compass stolen from him by a Amazonian tribe he has befriended, after learning about the object…
Movie Review: ‘A Brighter Summer Day’
A Brighter Summer Day is a cinematic soul search, a hulking beast of a film that can only meagerly be described as epic. With a four hour run-time, this masterpiece from Taiwan is almost indescribable…
Heroes Reborn Review: 11:53 to Odessa
“Thinking back on my one-room shack,” this recent episode of Heroes Reborn was blah. This show has reached its limits in ridiculousness and boringness, and this episode comes without anything contextu…