Remember this moment? Eight years later, the wish of YouTuber “greg blessing” (and likely the whole world) came true. Kind of, anyway. On Monday, director Allan Ungar gifted Uncharted players with a 15-minute “live-action fan film” about Naughty Dog and…
Firefly: 15 Years Later and Still Flying
The first time I watched “Serenity,” the pilot episode of Firefly, I didn’t get it. A space western where people flip-flopped between English and Chinese at rapid fire speeds, where a crew of thieves spent time smuggling things from planets…
Movie Review: Cars 3
In Pixar’s esteemed lineage, the Cars movies are curious oddities. Old-fashioned in its morals and perplexing in its automobiles-living-and-acting-as-humans mythology, the brainchild of Pixar’s head honcho/gearhead/Hawaiian shirt enthusiast John Lasseter is, comparatively, the animation company stuck in second gear. They’re…
TV Review: Rick and Morty 3×01 “The Rickshank Rickdemption”
That was unexpected. While it genuinely still feels like an April Fools prank, the first episode of Rick and Morty’s highly anticipated third season really was released on Adult Swim Saturday night with little warning. The very idea of it…
TV Review: The Big Bang Theory 8×15, “The Comic Book Store Regeneration”
It is a well-known fact that The Big Bang Theory knows how to make us a laugh. Week after week, we laugh at Penny’s sarcastic and witty humor as she nails each punch line, we giggle over Raj’s overly attached…
Ally’s Movie Review: Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
Trying to convince us that Aquaman can be taken seriously while introducing him drunk and talking to a lobster isn’t ever going to work in your favor. You can pretty him up, give him a tragic backstory and hide the…
Women in Film Wednesday: Waitress (2007)
I love it when a woman’s character’s first priority is herself, particularly in romantic comedies where we often see their love interests as their main source of happiness, their biggest obstacles and then their greatest awards. Waitress is so special and so…