TV Review: Fargo 3×02 “The Principle of Restricted Choice”

The second episode, a marginal improvement over the first, has the benefit of playing with what the first episode strenuously lays out. It’s looser, more unpredictable and explores character in-depth. The title (“The Principle of Restricted Choice”), a reference to…

TV Review: Fargo 3×01 “The Law of Vacant Places”

Noah Hawley’s Fargo once again opens under the dubious guise of being a “true story,” a subheading, perhaps the most abused in modern entertainment, which seems only to redefine the “truth” than embrace it. Yet, the episode “The Law of…

Movie Review: ‘T2 Trainspotting’

“Choose life…..we thought it was amusing at the time.” There’s a screaming sense of sadness in the air when this line is said, because it once stood out as a cry of rebellion. The emphatic repurposing of “Choose life” was…

Top 5 Best and Worst Actors/Actresses Turned Directors

This past weekend actor Ewan McGregor made his directorial debut with his new film American Pastoral. As of the initial critical reception, this film isn’t doing as well as most films do on their opening weekend. In the past we’ve all…

Movie Review: American Pastoral

Taking the entire social and political revolution of the 1960s and stuffing into the life of one man is a tough challenge, so the praise that Philip Roth gets for pulling it off with his 1997 novel American Pastoral is…

T2: Trainspotting 2 Teaser Turns Up

Nothing is ever truly safe from getting a sequel or a reboot nowadays. Considering the fact that Ghostbusters received a recent Hollywood reboot, anything can be fair game at this point. And it’s not like Hollywood has to be the only…

Movie Review: Jane Got a Gun

Well, Jane does certainly possess a gun throughout this movie. Sometimes she’ll be seen carrying one, other times she’ll have it holstered away. If you get really lucky, she just might shoot once or twice at a bad guy. For a flick…