Category: Reviews
REVIEW: The Addams Family (2019)
This Halloween season has brought us another iteration of The Addams Family, a series of characters created by Charles Addams for his cartoon strips and immortalized by the 1960’s sitcom. People often deride remakes, re-boots, and all kinds of re-interpretations in blanket statements, but it depen...
Read MoreREVIEW: Abominable (2019)
DreamWorks Animation is one studio that’s always interested me, but not always for the better. They’ve made some of my favorite movies, namely The Prince of Egypt and the How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda franchises. However, triumphs like these are vastly outnumbered by their stinkers ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Gemini Man (2019)
I was really looking forward to Gemini Man. I thought the trailers were pretty strong, aside from the odd usage of a slowed-down “Forever Young.” I love Will Smith as an actor when he picks his roles well, the cast overall was great, and Ang Lee was behind the camera. I thought there was no &hel...
Read MoreREVIEW: El Camino (2019)
El Camino, Vince Gilligan’s follow-up to his remarkable TV series Breaking Bad, arrived on Netflix this Friday. While it was easy to get excited at the promise of seeing some of Gilligan’s wonderful characters again, El Camino came with at least a hint of trepidation as well. Unlike seemingly ev...
Read MoreREVIEW: American Horror Story – Season 9, Episode 4, “True Killers”
*SPOILERS* “True Killers” opens with Montana instructing an all-male aerobics class to “Rebel Yell” by Billy Idol with the time card “then.” Richard Ramirez walks in and says that Billy Idol is the truth. After class, Montana finds the corpse of one of the men in the locker room, and Ric...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Flash – Season 6, Episode 1 “Into the Void”
This week, The Flash ushered in its sixth season with “Into the Void,” a low-key (despite what is technically a major threat) episode that shifts between a light-hearted and somber tone in the wake of last year’s tragedy. It also establishes what is likely the season’s central theme, introdu...
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