10 Years Later: Still No Country for Old Men

It’s been ten years since the release of what some might refer to as Joel and Ethan Coen’s masterpiece. Released in 2007 amidst numerous politically-minded, morally serious parables about U.S.’s intervention in the Middle East, No Country for Old Men…

Movie Review: Goodbye Christopher Robin

The intense emotion that Goodbye Christopher Robin evokes is hard to capture in words. There is sentimentality within the material, nostalgia for the immensely recognizable Winnie the Pooh and his friends from the 100-acre woods. But Goodbye Christopher Robin is…

TV Review: Black Mirror 3×06 “Hated in the Nation”

To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. Hated in the Nation places its deterministic death grip on the internet mob mentality—a “real world” issue that deserves at least some discussion. The final episode of Black Mirror, a police procedural, is an investigation…

TV Review: Boardwalk Empire 5×04 – “Cuanto”

Al Capone has always been one of the key figures in the evolving saga of Boardwalk Empire, but he was never always the Al Capone of legend. He started out as a small fish in a big pond, maneuvered his…

TV Review: Boardwalk Empire 5×03 – “What Jesus Said”

What would you do for love? The question is directed at the younger Nucky Thompson, but it could also be asked of many of the characters on Boardwalk Empire (or at least the ones featured in this episode, “What Jesus…

Women in Film Wednesday: Brave (2012)

Merida: Some say our destiny is tied to the land, as much a part of us as we are of it. Others say fate is woven together like a cloth, so that one’s destiny intertwines with many others. It’s the…