Mindhunter is one of those shows whose issues are all the more glaring because it obviously thinks it’s moved past them, mostly by barely addressing them in the first place. It’s an old mistake that Hollywood often makes, wherein mentioning…
Star Trek: Discovery 1×04 Review: The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry
The Star Trek: Discovery episode The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry certainly crams quite a bit into its 50 minute runtime, but it mostly works. Burnham is beginning to find her place on the U.S.S. Discovery, and…
Movie Review: The Florida Project
Some directors are virtuosos not just for their skill, but for how well they pull off the difficult subjects they choose to focus on, such as the lives of the impoverished. Often films about those with too few options are…
Star Trek: Discovery 1×03 Review: “Context is for Kings”
Star Trek: Discovery may have hit it out of the park on its previous two episodes, but it also burned the park down. So the stakes are no less high in the episode Context is for Kings, where the series…
Star Trek: Discovery Series Premiere Review
In a time where nearly all of our favorite properties are going gritty, Star Trek: Discovery does it better than most. In a time of war, with an enemy that embraces a logic completely foreign to us, the latest entry…
Movie Review: The Glass Castle
The moment I heard an old man in voiceover speak to just how good old-fashioned clean country livin’ was compared to big city life, I felt a great surge of anxiety. However, The Glass Castle isn’t nearly as cringeworthy as…
Movie Review: Person to Person
It’s rather hard to be cavalier about someone else’s problems when they take them so seriously and so personally. Oh wait, no it isn’t. Especially when they’re the types of problems found in Person to Person, which might as well…
