Before her popular supporting role in the American Pie movies, before the messy public battles with drug addiction that nearly killed her, and long before her career turnaround in Orange Is the New Black, Russian Doll, and Poker Face (officially renewed for a second season on Peacock!), a young actress named Natasha Lyonne made her… Read More We’re Not Regular Poor – Slums of Beverly Hills (1998)
Absent nearly four years since the first season debuted, the return of Amazon Prime’s Carnival Row feels more like the fulfillment of a contractual obligation than a property the streamer is committed to supporting. The second season is already confirmed to be the last. As so many other outlets have tripped over themselves canceling in-development… Read More Just Standard Doom, Gloom and Inner Torment – Carnival Row Season 2 Premiere (2023)
Star Trek: Picard begins its third and final season haunted by the fact that (how to put this delicately?) the show’s first two seasons basically sucked. I’m honestly at a loss to decide which of the two was worse, but at the moment am inclined to say the second. Planned as a big reunion and… Read More The Past Matters – Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Premiere (2023)
Renowned, Oscar-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley tears across the screen with such ferocity in Sexy Beast that viewers would be forgiven for remembering little else about the film beyond his performance. That was certainly the case for me. The movie is a fairly entertaining little crime thriller, but I’d forgotten almost everything about the story… Read More Do the Job – Sexy Beast (2000)
As a young film student in 1993, I walked out of the theater ecstatic about Tony Scott’s True Romance. I went back to see it a couple more times, but couldn’t convince any of my friends to go with me. From the title, they all assumed it must be a sappy rom-com that would hold… Read More If I’m With You, Then I’m With You – True Romance (1993) 4K Ultra HD
Released in the highly-competitive 1999 fall movie season against dozens of good-to-great films from other major artists, Steven Soderbergh’s modest crime thriller The Limey slipped through the cracks and drew little attention. Although kindly received by critics, it made no money and, even a couple decades later, remains one of the director’s least-seen works. Yet… Read More You Tell ‘im I’m Coming – The Limey (1999) 4K Ultra HD
I feel like I should be enjoying HBO’s latest prestige series The Last of Us a lot more than I actually am. I want to like this show, and don’t get me wrong, I don’t actively dislike it. As expected of the network, the program has excellent production values. It also has well-drawn, appealing characters… Read More HBO’s The Last of Us Doesn’t Make Any Damn Sense
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