I was always strangely adverse to Disney Channel movies and shows as a kid. Some false sense of superiority, I suppose. After all, I had moved on to sophisticated adult fare like Click and You Me and Dupree when High…
Fresh Eyes: Aliens
I’ve had a rather strange relationship with the Alien franchise. It’s taken me forever and a day to finally catch up on them (I watched the original only two years ago) and have essentially spent the last 21 years hearing…
Movie Review: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Guy Ritchie’s take on the King Arthur legend plays like a 180 million dollar book report written by the worst student in the class. While the madman behind Snatch may have glanced at the original Arthurian text at some point,…
Movie Review: The Boss Baby
Let’s face facts. Dreamworks Animation has evolved into the studio that makes memes come true. Films that began as genuine attempts to create a more sardonic cousin to the more earnest fare of Disney/Pixar have been retroactively reduced into a…
Movie Review: Get Out
Jordan Peele’s Get Out is essentially Dear White People for sadists; it’s a therapeutic horror comedy with a shotgun barrel aimed at the racial tension that’s echoing through America. Where Keegan-Michael Key mostly seems comfortable remaining in the goofy comedy/light drama…
TV Review: Legion “Chapter Two”
I was really worried that Legion’s pilot was a fluke. For as fascinating as spending time inside David Haller’s mind was, the ending hinted at things taking a turn into more standard superhero territory and I’m still not thrilled with…
TV Review: Legion Series Premiere – “Chapter 1”
The following review contains spoilers for the premiere episode of Legion. The X-Men franchise has, strangely enough, become the home for auteur storytelling in the superhero landscape. Last year, we got the unapologetically vulgar and cartoonish Deadpool and in March,…
