Michael Fairbanks
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When Michael Fairbanks first saw Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film back in 2002, everything changed. The experience began a lifelong passion for cinema that has gone undeterred since. In 2009 he began reviewing movies on Youtube, which ultimately sprang into a lifelong passion for film criticism and entertainment reporting. He is currently studying screenwriting at Chapman University. Aside from seeing movies, Michael enjoys making bad puns while playing video games, going on long late night drives, and socializing over large plates of food. For more of Fairbanks' movie reviews check out: https://fairbanksonfilm.wordpress.com

TV Review: Crazy Ex Girlfriend (2X11) “Josh is the Man of My Dreams, Right?”

After last week’s nuptial bombshell, there are wedding bells ringing inside Rebecca’s head on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. It’s all she can talk about at work, throwing that Garfinkel Ring in the face of anybody who will look. It seems as though…

Movie Review: Trespass Against Us

Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us is the Parenthood of crime movies. It’s a story about how to raise a family in a unit so unstable that one false move could tear it apart. This certainly isn’t unfamiliar territory, but when…

TV Review: Crazy Ex Girlfriend (2X10) “Will Scarsdale Like Josh’s Shayna Punim?”

“They say obsession biologically lasts four years at most but science doesn’t apply to us.” Rebecca Bunch isn’t just “crazy,” she’s caught in a disastrous cycle that stems mostly from her childhood.  That truth has largely been sidelined this season…

TV Review: Man Seeking Woman (3X02) “Ranch”

One of the most consistently hilarious characters on Man Seeking Woman has been Josh’s overbearing mother Patti (Robin Duke). This lady commits so heavily to every manic line she’s given that I suspect she’s given her own kids the electric…

TV Review: Crazy Ex Girlfriend’s Back To Back Comeback

Crazy Ex Girlfriend has returned with two episodes that seem hell bent on whipping the show back into shape. Ever since Greg finally escaped Rebecca’s clutches for a healthier life in Atlanta (we hope), things have been a little wobbly.…

TV Review: Man Seeking Woman (3X01) “Futon”

In the first episode of its third season, Man Seeking Woman could be starting to reveal the true nature of its seemingly random structure. Season one was a series of independent vignettes that put the trials of 21st-century dating into…

Movie Review: Fences

Denzel Washington has been out of the awards game for quite some time, and it’s hard to blame him. After two Oscar wins, the man is more than entitled to have some fun. That’s exactly what he’s done for over…