
Winning Time | Episode 6 – Recap & Review
Episode 6 of Winning Time, HBO’s new foray into high-concept appointment television, takes the series to new heights. Continue reading Winning Time | Episode 6 – Recap & Review
Episode 6 of Winning Time, HBO’s new foray into high-concept appointment television, takes the series to new heights. Continue reading Winning Time | Episode 6 – Recap & Review
Winning Time | Episode 2 – Recap & Review Continue reading Winning Time | Episode 2 – Recap & Review
Based on Showtime, a book by Jeff Pearlman, the show chronicles the moves that turned The Los Angeles Lakers from lovable also-rans to the sport’s preeminent franchise. Continue reading Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty | Episode 1 Review
Black History Month is over, but that doesn’t mean that Black-led films should take a backseat. Continue reading 6 Movies You Should Watch After Black History Month
Oscar bait. What do you think of when you hear the term? Serious, historical dramas marked by powerful performances? Movies created to appeal to the dramatic conceit of The Academy? Every year as awards season looms one movie slots effortlessly … Continue reading Belfast | Review
A few years ago, we all saw a lot of high-horsing by members of the critical film establishment when it came to the Netflix’s movie Cuties. The general tenor of the commentary (incredibly enough, not laced by the humility of an industry … Continue reading Revisiting Netflix’s Cuties: An Acute Controversy
Once again film legend Martin Scorsese is making the outrage rounds. A year after the Goodfellas director took pains to clarify off-hand comments about superhero movies being theme park rides instead of “real” cinema, he is amidst a swirling conversation … Continue reading Il Maestro and the Scorsese Controversy
***Spoiler Warning*** Destiny, meaning, love, and lingering loss are the essential elements of drama. Known to us since Sophocles and Shakespeare, we judge literature, art, and cinema by these metrics. Sound of Metal- an Amazon original directed by Darius Marder, starring … Continue reading Sound of Metal: Horror and Salvation
Conventional wisdom is boring. In every election year it is always gravely intoned that elections boil down to turnout, and if that obvious fact is true it is equally so that casting can make-or-break films. Facts are stubbornly resistant to … Continue reading Freaky – Review: Body-Swap Slasher with a Message
Christopher Nolan is obsessed with time, with humanity’s attempts to master it, and how simple shifts in perspective can subvert the very fabric of reality. In Tenet, Nolan attempts to achieve the near-impossible – create a smart, stylish spy film … Continue reading Tenet – Review: A Return to the Spectacular