The Sisters Brothers Movie Review: An uneven but often engaging take on deconstructing the Western

In the same scheme in which Jacques Audiard’s Palm d’Or-winning migrant drama Dheepan metamorphizes into a hazy and violent stupor in it’s the final moments, his first foray into the western genre does something similar but this time in reverse.…

Big Brother 20 Finale Review: History Repeats Itself with a Polarizing Vote

In the battle for the Big Brother 20 crown, a strong social game has won out yet again. Professional football player Kaycee defeated lifeguard Tyler in a close 5-4 jury vote. Meanwhile, JC the dancer came in third. Kaycee snatched…

The Purge 1X04 Review: The Future Doesn’t Look Bright in “Release the Beast”

After three episodes that are jam-packed with action, “Release the Beast” falls flat. Not sure if it’s the show or just the gruesome concept, but it’s quite a snooze fest since no one exciting gets murdered. For a show that…

Album Review: Pale Waves – My Mind Makes Noises

The conversation around Pale Waves is all centered around the same dilemma. There is an undeniable charm to the Manchester indie quartet’s output of light, breezy 80s-tinged electro-pop, but nearly all of their catalog is profoundly derivative of their influences,…

Iron Fist Review: Season 2 Delivers One Hell of a Punch

This review contains spoilers for Iron Fist season two. Iron Fist is far from a struggle. There were signs of a better Danny Rand (Finn Jones) in last year’s The Defenders, but Iron Fist season two completely switches things up…

The Purge 1×02 Review: It’s the Survival of the Fittest

After an intriguing premiere that showed various aspects of The Purge, “Take What’s Yours” fell flat and left us with more questions than answers. However, since this is a 10-episode series, that could be the point. The Purge is slowly…

‘Beautiful Boy’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Astonishes in Painful, Messy and True Story About Addiction | TIFF 2018

Early in Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, based on the best selling novels by David and Nic Sheff, David (Steve Carrell) is told that relapse is to be expected in addiction recovery – even thought of as one of the…