Trailer for A Series of Unfortunate Events

Netflix released the new trailer for its episodic interpretation of A Series of Unfortunate Events.  The show will air on January 13th of the upcoming year, joining Netflix’s impressive roster of original programming.  Unfortunate Events will join Stranger Things as…

TV Review: The Crown

The Crown is a Netflix exclusive drama series surrounding the early events of Queen Elizabeth II’s (Claire Foy) reign. After marrying Prince Philip (Matt Smith), Elizabeth learns that King George VI (Jared Harris) has only months left to live, due…

Movie Review: I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House

Creepy tales about ghosts and murder probably aren’t going anywhere in the foreseeable future, but it’s not like you haven’t heard it all before. A certain spirit refuses to leave the house, they were likely beaten in by a loved…

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: Black Mirror 3×05 “Men Against Fire”

To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. Men Against Fire proposes one of the most unique, non-literal interpretations of warfare within the last 5 years—it’s a shame the episode seems work better on paper than it does in execution. Black…

TV Review: Black Mirror 3×04 “San Junipero”

To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. Up until watching San Junipero I would have used words like “futuristic” and “modernistic” to describe Black Mirror, this time around the one word to describe it would probably be “retro”. In the nightclub scene of…

TV Review: Haters Back Off!

I honestly could never understand the whole “Annoying character = comedy” routine. But it appears to be a ripe place on YouTube for television creators to exploit, as we saw a few years ago with concoctions like the Annoying Orange…