Snowfall 1×06 Review: “A Long Time Coming”

I guess you could say it’s been “A Long Time Coming” since a Snowfall episode has been able to remain engaging the entire hour. While not much action happened during the sixth episode, many characters’ storylines began overlapping, making one…

Snowfall 1×03 Review: “Slow Hand”

The trailer for Snowfall’s “Slow Hand” portrayed the episode as one that would be filled with action and retribution. However, there was barely any of either. Instead, “Slow Hand” felt like a filler episode that sets up for future action…

Movie Review: Lady Macbeth

The period drama is best identified by it swoon-inducing romantic subplots and heavy melodrama. If the characters in Lady Macbeth stumbled upon the figures from a Jane Austen novel, a fistfight would probably ensue. William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth undoes all…

Snowfall 1×02 Review: “Make Them Birds Fly”

Worlds start to collide in Snowfall’s second episode, “Make Them Birds Fly.” During the premiere, we were introduced to three main storylines. However, the second episode focused mainly on Franklin and his journey from slinging weed for his uncle to…

TV Rewind: Prison Break Season Four

Racing out of the gates during season one and season two Prison Break faltered in season three and nearly collapsed in season four. In Season four we see Michael (Wentworth Miller) seeking revenge for the death of Sarah, Lincoln (Dominic…

Movie Review: Silence

Like a good deal of Martin Scorsese’s films, Silence handles the subject of faith in a complex and humanistic way; the legendary American filmmaker transmutes the torment, humiliation and suffering of two young, idealistic Jesuit priests, by the fiendish censors of Feudal Japan,…

TV Review: Emerald City Series Premiere – “The Beast Forever” + “Prison of the Abject”

After many long years of rewrites and push-backs due to “creative differences,” Emerald City has finally reached network television. Although the show possesses strong and ambitious elements, it is evident that Emerald City has been put through the primetime wringer…