Things are coming down to the wire for the first season of Celebrity Big Brother. Conversations have shifted from getting to know each other to becoming chats about who they should be sitting next to at the finals. There is…
High Maintenance 2×06 Review: “Googie”
High Maintenance is not often interested in serialized storytelling, but they’re easing into it this season with this episode, “Googie.” It acts as a second part to last week’s “Scromple,” and parallels it in a few ways: The Guy is…
7 Guardians of the Tomb Movie Review: One redeeming moment can’t save this misfire
There is precisely one redeeming moment in Kimble Rendall’s 7 Guardians of the Tomb, a sci-fi horror blockbuster touting itself as the largest Chinese-Australian co-production in history. The scene comes about two-thirds of the way in after a group of…
Tehran Taboo Movie Review
Tehran Taboo opens with a man picking up a prostitute, Pari (Elmira Rafizadeh), and her son, Elias, in his car. While Pari is giving her client a blowjob (with Elias in the backseat), he crashes his car into the vehicle…
Loveless Movie Review: A Grim Take on Unhappiness
Leviathan director Andrey Zvyaginstev’s latest film, Loveless, will lead you into the dark abyss–one that feels empty and wholly unsatisfactory. More often than not, the film acts like a merry-go-round of misery; it traps the lead characters firmly in one place and never really…
Annihilation Movie Review: A terrifying and beautiful experience
Life, in Alex Garland’s Annihilation, his follow up to Ex Machina, is a ponderous, methodical, and unbalanced matter. Natalie Portman’s Lena, vacant and distant, states that the mystical “shimmer” isn’t destroying, but “creating something new”. The feverish world Garland has…
The Dungeon Folks Session 8: The Lady or The Tiger
In addition to our Twitch channel, you can also find the weekly installments of this campaign in video form on YouTube and Facebook video, and in audio form on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, and android’s Pocketcasts! Behind on the story, or…