Why do television dramas insist on portraying Chicago, my hometown, as a city full of violence and decay? Like any major city in America, the metropolitan area has crime, drugs, and police corruption problems. Yet, its sense of community and…
Movie Review: Sweet Virginia
It’s easy to see why the dark and shadowy world of film noir remains an attractive avenue for filmmaking. Exploring a world filled with sex, sin and the possibility of redemption shows us at our best and our worst. Based…
Mindhunter: Netflix Series Review
Mindhunter is one of those shows whose issues are all the more glaring because it obviously thinks it’s moved past them, mostly by barely addressing them in the first place. It’s an old mistake that Hollywood often makes, wherein mentioning…
Movie Review: Dog Eat Dog
The title is a lot more intriguing than this movie ended up being. A solid cast of names at the top, lead by Willem Dafoe and Nicolas Cage doesn’t overcome the lack of substance in the plot. A group crazed…
Allyson’s Movie Review: Welcome to the Punch (2013)
In a London that’s sleek, doused in grays and hues of blue and encompassed by streets that are perpetually empty, Max Lewinsky, a police officer with a hot headed temperament, chases after criminal Jacob Sternwood in one of the most…