After impressing critics with his science fiction road trip, Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols is back with an even more tender story. Loving tells the true story of an interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) and…
Movie Review: ‘Embrace of the Serpent’
There’s a scene early in Embrace of the Serpent where a German ethnographer, Theo (Jan Bijvoet), has his compass stolen from him by a Amazonian tribe he has befriended, after learning about the object’s navigational powers. It’s an intelligently written…
Movie Review: ‘A Brighter Summer Day’
A Brighter Summer Day is a cinematic soul search, a hulking beast of a film that can only meagerly be described as epic. With a four hour run-time, this masterpiece from Taiwan is almost indescribable in what it accomplishes. Rejected by…
Heroes Reborn Review: 11:53 to Odessa
“Thinking back on my one-room shack,” this recent episode of Heroes Reborn was blah. This show has reached its limits in ridiculousness and boringness, and this episode comes without anything contextual. In a way this episode felt like a complete…
Heroes Reborn Review: Sundae, Bloody Sundae
Heroes Reborn has reached a new level of boredom; a surprising level of boredom, as I sat back continuing to not give a damn about anything of relevance in the show. This episode serves as an introduction to what happens…
TV Review: Fargo (2×03) “The Myth of Sisyphus”
In my review of Fargo‘s second season premiere, I criticized the season overall for lacking the wide array of quirky characters that was the first season’s most significant claim to fame. I was disappointed that unlike Season 1, Season 2 does…
Movie Review: ‘Suffragette’
Suffragette, like last year’s Selma, benefits from the fact that its release is coinciding with several social justice movements. The release of Selma seemed perfectly timed, highlighting the similarities between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter. But the…