Time melts away while watching Damien Chazelle’s latest, La La Land about the nature of being an artist, dating a fellow performer and how dreams and expectations are hard won and that perspective too is a difficultly earned gift in growing older. How…
TV Review: The Flash 3×08 “Invasion”
Welcome back to my weekly recaps of The Flash. To read previous coverage, go here. Now that is what I would call a good crossover event episode. Firstly, to get the me of the matter over with, I apologize for…
TV Review: Supergirl 2×08 “Medusa”
Thanks for reading my weekly recaps of Supergirl. To read about past episodes, click here. It’s hard to believe that we’ve already come to the winter finale of season two of Supergirl and yet here we are and the show doesn’t let us…
Movie Review: Always Shine
Sophia Takal has a direct vision and it’s one that initially put me off when I left the theater. In your face and vibrant with mean spirited characters, the film doesn’t offer much in the way of emotional connection or…
Movie Review: Lion
The first hour of Garth Davis’s Lion (based on the true story of Saroo Bierley) is one of the finest explorations of the human experience this year. We follow a young Saroo after he is devastatingly separated from his mother…
5 Directors for the live action Mulan
With it recently being released that Disney’s live action Mulan is getting a 2018 release date with a worldwide search taking place for a Chinese actress to tackle the leading role of the titular heroine, it’s time to try to (or try not…
Movie Review: Loving
Jeff Nichols directs films with the steadiness and dexterity of a great novelist. Feeling little pressure to rely on expository dialogue or to drive the action forward without cause, Nichols creates his immersive worlds through his ability to craft organic…
