Standing alongside Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead, Halt and Catch Fire has become AMC’s little engine that could. Despite low ratings (and lower ratings the second season), Halt and Catch Fire is back for a third season,…
Were Suicide Squad’s Trailers Misleading?
With the dust settling from the release of the highly talked, box-office success Suicide Squad, the reactions to the films have been…interesting. Critically savaged, the box-office success has been record breaking although the fall within the three day week suggest…
Interview: Actor David Harbour Embraces ‘Stranger Things’
If 2016 is marketed as the summer of nostalgia, one of the biggest summer hits to play on that popularity didn’t arrive on the big screen…it was on Netflix. Stranger Things, the 8 part horror series, is the definition of a…
Review: Bad Moms
We’ve gotten used to seeing titles with Bad BLANK as a quick way of letting audiences know what they should be expecting from certain types of movies: edgy comedy, even if the premise seems cute. There have been a few…
Interview: Actress Tammy Blanchard on ‘Tallulah’
If you’ve seen the posters for the new Netflix original film Tallulah, you’ve noticed the shadowy image of a lusty woman with a cigarette in her hands and curlers in her hair. What you might not realize is that caricature…
Movie Review: The Childhood of a Leader
Brady Corbet is a familiar face on screen as an actor in independent in a number of films by today’s quintessential auteurs. He starred in the English language remake of Michael Haneke’s own Funny Games, Lars Von Trier somber beauty…
Back When I Wanted to Be a Ghostbuster
I have vague memories of watching Ghostbusters as a youngster. It came out when I had just about turned one, so I know this was not a theatrical event for me (nor did I see Ghostbusters II in a theater).…
