House of Cards: Season 4, Episodes 46-48

Dramatic irony: when the audience finally understands what’s going on in that another character might not know. Now this gets used all the time in plays and dramatic works, and often to deepen the sense of suspense the audience now…

House of Cards: Season 4, Episodes 43-45

For the most part, everyone, even those who have never seen House of Cards, knows it’s about politics and the power plays behind every action. But most of all, they know it’s about trust and the loss of trust: it…

House of Cards: Season 4, Episodes 40-42 Review

Man oh man. I mean, it still doesn’t live up to the “I killed a recurring character in the first episode” act that House of Cards pulled in season two, but it introduces the ever wonderful Ellen Burstyn as Claire’s…

A Breakdown of the House of Cards Trailer

We did it last year, and we’re pretty happy to say that we were pretty much right on a good half of those predictions. And hey, when you have an award winning Netflix show on your hands, you really wouldn’t…

A Cut by Cut Breakdown of the House of Cards Trailer

Wow. I mean, just wow. We’ve already been as hooked on this show as a test lab mouse is on Pepsi sugar. As if they just can’t toy with us enough, they show the final season of the award winning…

Performances in 2014 That Were Overlooked or Underrated

Okay, so obviously the Oscars aren’t the end-all-be-all of cinema. A movie can be great without being an Oscar movie; a movie can be nominated for Best Picture and can subjectively be considered shit. Sometimes the Academy gets it right,…

Ally’s Movie Review: The Congress

“Ultimately, everything makes sense. And everything is in our mind.” Robin Wright is a woman who has a decade of poor decisions weighing her down. Once a shining star and a fresh faced actress ready to take on stardom, she’s…