The board is set, and the pieces are moving. After an hour-long prologue in the season premiere, True Detective seems to be picking up a touch of speed. “Night Finds You” is where our four lead characters start to realize…
TV Review: Orange Is the New Black (3×13) “Trust No Bitch”
As you’d naturally expect from a season finale, there’s a lot going on in this episode. It picks up exactly where the last episode left off, in the middle of movie night. The structure of this episode is the same as…
TV Review: Humans (1×01) “Episode 1”
Humans premiered tonight on AMC, and it’s a promising start. While there is certainly room to grow and some of the ideas are roughly sketched, its science fiction and drama has enough intrigue to keep me interested. It is, to…
Movie Review: ‘Citizenfour’
Edward Snowden is quite a polarizing figure–some view him as a hero for revealing the extent of the state’s surveillance on private citizens, while others see him as a traitor for exposing state secrets–and I suppose there are a great many…
Movie Review: ‘Runoff’
When you take away a man’s dignity / He can’t work his fields and cows there’ll be Blood on the scarecrow / Blood on the plow – “Rain on the Scarecrow,” John Cougar Mellencamp Usually when movie characters turn to a life of crime,…
TV Review: Orange Is the New Black (3×12) “Don’t Make Me Come Back There”
In this episode, Daya finally goes into labor. While this happens, Daya wants her mother far away from her. Aleida is naturally sad that her own daughter doesn’t want to be near her, but she’s the one who pushed her…
TV Review: Hannibal (3×04) – “Aperitivo”
Scars of all types have been a recurring theme of exploration for this early run of Hannibal season three. While “Primavera” took a scalpel (figuratively speaking) to Will’s head space as he dealt with the mental trauma of losing Abigail…