Just when the I was worried I would get bored with this season, “Chapter 3” delivers a taste of a twist that may happen in the coming episodes. The beginning of the episode picks up where the last left off, the…
TV Review: American Horror Story: Roanoke 6×02 “Chapter 2”
“Chapter 2” of American Horror Story: Roanoke advances the mystery established in “Chapter 1,” while continuing with the show-within-a-show docu-series format. This week, viewers got to see Kathy Bates and Denis O’Hare in action, with quick glimpses of Wes Bently and Lady Gaga. One…
TV Review: ’American Horror Story: Hotel’ 5×02 “Chutes and Ladders”
We were promised more gore, more horror, more sex, more scares. This episode of American Horror Story: Hotel delivers on all of these but the scares. As a fan of the AHS anthology, despite some mistakes on Ryan Murphy and…
Movie Review: ‘We Are Your Friends’
As James Reed (Wes Bentley) proclaims to aspiring DJ Cole Carter (Zac Efron) early on in We Are Your Friends, “Imitation is suicide.” Even before the film reached its conclusion, I couldn’t help but find a good amount of self-reflexive irony…
‘We Are Your Friends’ Trailer Review
Hey, remember Magic Mike? The heartwarming tale of a young entrepreneur looking to make it in the world on his own terms…except he has to get out of the male stripper industry first? If you liked Magic Mike, then you’ll…
American Horror Story: Freak Show – What We Know So Far
Every year, American Horror Story show runner Ryan Murphy stays fairly tight-lipped about the details of the upcoming season. We get information in bits and pieces, never amounting to much but holding us over until the premiere in October. It’s…
The Film Canon: American Beauty (1999)
It begins with the voice over of a dead man. If you recall, Billy Wilder’s black comic masterpiece Sunset Blvd. also begins with narration courtesy of a corpse. Like William Holden and Gloria Swanson in American Beauty‘s cinematic ancestor, the…