It’s nearly impossible to discuss Olivia Wilde’s directorial feature debut Booksmart without slipping into hyperbole. Bursting with confidence and personality, it avoids nearly all of the pitfalls of a first film, as it cultivates a living, breathing ecosystem that manages…
Movie Review: The Boss Baby
Let’s face facts. Dreamworks Animation has evolved into the studio that makes memes come true. Films that began as genuine attempts to create a more sardonic cousin to the more earnest fare of Disney/Pixar have been retroactively reduced into a…
New Trailer Out for ‘The Boss Baby’
Alec Baldwin, wearing a power suit, yelling out maniacal things at people beneath him. No, this isn’t another skit of Baldwin playing Trump on SNL, but rather, a movie featuring Baldwin as a genius baby trying to get the better…
TV Review: BoJack Horseman Has a New Outlook on Life in Season 2 of the Netflix Comedy
Few of the great TV protagonists have been extravagantly rich. It’s hard for an audience to empathize with characters that openly and gleefully flaunt their wealth. TV writers and executives know this, and that’s a big part of why, at…
Tom Hanks’ Electric City
Unlike the several celebrity made web series (like Will Ferrell’s Funny Or Die or that thing Lisa Kudrow made), Electric City actually is a dramatic take on life and its consequences. Set in a post-apocalyptic time where electricity is limited,…