The “What year is it?” energy is intense this year as film after film claims or functions like they’re throwbacks. Off the top of one’s head, a great one is The Djinn, the claustrophobic horror …
Movie Review: Last Flag Flying
Directed and co-written by Richard Linklater, who’s known best for Boyhood and the Before Sunrise trilogy, Last Flag Flying comes right in time for Veteran’s Day. Rather than focusing on t…
Movie Review: John Wick Chapter 2
I think it’s safe to say that John Wick has been quite the surprise. What many believed to just be a little brainless flick popping up out of nowhere, would go on to be one of 2014’s best …
TV Review: The Muppets Premiere – “Pig Girls Don’t Cry”
There are very few things that had more of an impact on me as a child than The Muppets. I’m fairly certain I watched my VHS of The Muppet Movie so many times that it started to wear out and I had a Ke…
TV Review: Hannibal (3×05) – “Contorno”
Around the midway point of “Contorno,” Chiyoh compares her state of being to taxidermy; she still looks like herself but feels like something was taken from her, as if her soul was hollowed out. She m…
TV Review: “Hannibal” (3×02) – “Primavera”
Abigail Hobbs’ relationship with the sociopathic Dr. Hannibal Lecter is not all too dissimilar from what I suspect many viewers have with the show also named Hannibal. Last year’s season finale was pa…
TV Review: Hannibal Season 3 Premiere – “Antipasto”
“You no longer have ethical concerns, Hannibal, you have aesthetic ones.” Bedelia Du Maurier (Gillian Anderson) says this to Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), the man/killer/master chef, but she might…