Entrenched in a rural Pentecostal community of Appalachian snake handlers who risk their lives in order to test their devotion to God (led by a reliably skeezy Walton Goggins), a pastor’s daughter (Al…
Tomb Raider Movie Review: Alicia Vikander carries it as far as she can
In adapting Square Enix’s revisionist take on the iconic video game character Lara Croft, director Roar Uthaug finds himself in a strange position. He carries an obvious love for the material, painsta…
Movie Review: ‘Diablo’
I’ll give Lawrence Roeck credit, at least he didn’t reveal the twist to his new film Diablo in its last few minutes. Usually when a major twist is saved until the very end of a film, it comes across a…
Movie Review: ‘The Hateful Eight’
Quentin Tarantino, the only contemporary director of a blaxploitation film, a samurai movie and a Nazi revenge fantasy, baptizes his audiences in blood, rebirthing them through vengeance. But what’s m…
TV Review: Justified 6×01 – “Fate’s Right Hand”
I have been both looking forward to and dreading this final season of the wildly entertaining FX TV show Justified. Though I just recently began watching the show, which chronicles the life of a US Ma…
This Just In! Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino’s newest movie, Django Unchained, is coming out on Christmas, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Christolph Waltz and Kerry Washington. Set 2 years before the…