The title for The Americans’ sixth episode will leave a few cinephiles raising eyebrows. Rififi’s director, as mentioned in the episode, is the American expatriate Jules Dassin who fled his home country after the House of Un-American Activities commenced its witch…
Supernatural 13×21 Review: “Beat the Devil”
I love this episode. “Beat the Devil” is about reliving our past traumas when circumstances dictate it. With a rich history of trauma, Supernatural hasn’t always dealt with the emotional aftermath successfully. But that’s the ultimate beauty of the show’s longevity…
Bad Samaritan Movie Review: David Tennant Suffers In Dean Devlin’s Second Strikeout
Dean Devlin has cruised on a very solid and lucky career in Hollywood. Ever since he linked up with Roland Emmerich in the late 1980s, Devlin has racked up a formidable number of hit movies on his resume as a…
Ava Movie Review: An Empowering Entry to the Coming of Age Genre
“Your mind is already polluted,” says Ms. Dehkhoda, the school principal, to a class of young Iranian girls. All they can do is nod while being punished for a crime they didn’t even commit: having sex. Using a horror story…
The Royals 4×08 Review: “In the Dead Vast and Middle of the Night”
This week’s episode of The Royals deals with a familiar pre-wedding tradition in a not-so-traditional way: stag/hen parties, AKA bachelor/bachelorette parties. Who knew there could be so much surprise LSD and secret coups involved? The Hen Party Helena and a…
Survivor: Ghost Island 36×09 Review: “It’s Like the Perfect Crime”
“It’s Like the Perfect Crime” was the perfect example of how lying can destroy someone’s game. Well, “destroying” might be too light of a word. Desiree set off a cataclysmic apocalypse to her game this week on Survivor: Ghost Island.…