To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. Hated in the Nation places its deterministic death grip on the internet mob mentality—a “real world” issue that deserves at least some discussion. The final episode of Black Mirror, a police procedural, is an investigation…
TV Review: Black Mirror 3×05 “Men Against Fire”
To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. Men Against Fire proposes one of the most unique, non-literal interpretations of warfare within the last 5 years—it’s a shame the episode seems work better on paper than it does in execution. Black…
TV Review: Black Mirror 3×04 “San Junipero”
To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. Up until watching San Junipero I would have used words like “futuristic” and “modernistic” to describe Black Mirror, this time around the one word to describe it would probably be “retro”. In the nightclub scene of…
TV Review: Black Mirror 3×03 “Shut Up and Dance”
To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. There’s an outrageousness to Shut Up and Dance that makes it both easier and more difficult to enjoy. It’s the most suspense-driven and conventional of the third season, but it’s also the most…
Movie Review: It’s Only the End of the World
Louis, suffering from an unspecified terminal illness, constantly checks his watch, only realizing for the first time in his life how precious time really is. Xavier Dolan adapted It’s Only the End of the World from the stage play Juste…
TV Review: Black Mirror 3×02 “Playtest”
To catch other reviews to Black Mirror episodes, click here. Black Mirror’s second episode Playtest brings to mind the type of virtual reality stories (think The Matrix, Existenz and Sword Art Online) that made ‘video games’ alone a popular subgenre in mainstream science fiction. Wyatt Russell (who you…
Movie Review: Long Way North
There’s such a simple grace to the animation in Long Way North that deserved a simpler, more graceful story. This vibrant little animation, coming out of France and Denmark, bears a seemingly straightforward story but every potential for expressive beauty…
