It’s never a good sign when the most interesting thing about a film festival drama is its novelty as a feature directorial debut from the person who also stars in it. For every Citizen Kane and Wanda, we have just…
Movie Review – Blade Runner 2049
Warning: Spoilers for Blade Runner: 2049 below. Blade Runner 2049 is, above all, a film of images. Bold. Brash. Breathtaking. Harrowing. The original 1982 Ridley Scott film set itself in a dystopian, retrofitted Los Angeles that was equal parts cyberpunk and lurid…
TV Review: House of Cards Season 5, Episodes 7-13
There comes a certain point while watching a reality TV show that you start to wonder just how real the show is. Then comes the frightening opposite of it, when watching a dramatically licensed TV show based on daily life…
TV Review: House of Cards Season 5, Episodes 1-6
But is it really deja vu? Is it really that far off to believe somehow, the House of Cards universe suddenly finds itself feasible? Rather, are we so induced into whatever universe we find ourselves in that we find HOC plausible? There’s no other…
House of Cards Teaser Released
An hour and a half before Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, Netflix decided to play some politics and release a teaser of their hit original series, House of Cards. Watch it below. Well then. First…
House of Cards: Season 4, Episodes 49-52
The end is nigh—or so we think. In the final episodes of season four, we come to terms with what’s going on from the start: Claire and Frank never truly loved each other but rather are a political union made…