Warning: This review contains spoilers for Spider-man: No Way Home. You have been warned. Spider–Man: No Way Home is finally here. After the entirety of COVID and then some, one of the most awaited films in recent memory just hit…
For Your Consideration: Feud: Bette and Joan
This week’s edition of “For Your Consideration” features Ryan Murphy’s latest Emmy nomination powerhouse, Feud. Season one, subtitled Bette and Joan, follows the infamous drama surrounding the production of the 1962 film, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The film starred Hollywood…
The Film Canon: Spider-Man 2 (2004)
What a world of difference there is between the superhero blockbuster of today and the superhero blockbuster of 2004. What a vast, vast world of difference. Consider some of the best superhero films of recent memory – Logan, Guardians of…
Feud: Bette and Joan Review: “Hagsploitation”
There’s a thin tightrope between art and trash. Usually, what separates the two is how skillfully they can glean truth and realism in the defying act. Like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan, that balance…
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Review: “Pilot”
Often charitably, my friends tell me that I hold an encyclopedic knowledge on film. But I have to make a confession: I know very little about Joan Crawford and Bette Davis’ “legendary” behind-the-scenes rivalry during What Ever Happened to Baby…
TV Review: Show Me a Hero Finale
Show Me a Hero has been a powerful and incredibly timely piece of television. Running at only six episodes long there was a fear that it wouldn’t have the impact it could with a longer running time, but six hours…
TV Review: Show Me a Hero Premiere
To I’m sure what must be the horror of television fans everywhere, this is the first David Simon series I’ve ever seen. Generation Kill, about the fruitless nature of war, was never on my radar when it aired, Treme was little…