Even if it has next to nothing to do with the original novel or movie from which it takes the title, the new streaming reboot of The Day of the Jackal is a very stylish and suspenseful modern thriller. The need to adapt it into TV series format, however, may have resulted in the story… Read More Everyone Lies, About Everything | The Day of the Jackal (2024) Peacock Series Premiere
The Killer is legendary action filmmaker John Woo’s masterpiece. To be clear, when I say that, I’m of course referring to Woo’s 1989 film called The Killer. His new 2024 movie also called The Killer, which is being promoted as a self-directed remake of his own work, is something different entirely. The new version of… Read More La Femme Redundant | The Killer (2024) on Peacock
Between The Last of Us on TV and The Super Mario Bros. Movie in theaters, 2023 may have finally broken the longstanding curse against video games being adapted to film or television. Both have been enormously popular in their respective mediums. Coincidentally (maybe?), fungus plays a major role in both stories. Are audiences finally ready… Read More Everybody Loves Mushrooms | The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
The Peacock original series Twisted Metal is pretty much exactly what you should expect from a new streaming TV show based on a 1990s video game about heavily-armed cars that blow the hell out of one another. It’s big, dumb, obnoxious, and sometimes mildly amusing. Depending on your perspective, and your mood at the time… Read More A Milkman’s Job Is Never Done | Twisted Metal Season 1 (2023) on Peacock
One of the biggest blockbuster hits of 1994, and a movie still well-remembered and well-liked by most viewers almost three decades later, True Lies is a sad case of a piece of popular art that has fallen victim to its creator’s indifference toward it. Now seventeen years into the Blu-ray era, True Lies remains absent… Read More It’s Not Like He’s Saving the World or Anything | True Lies (1994) HD Streaming Comparisons
Filmmaker Rian Johnson has had quite a journey from being the pariah of Star Wars fandom just a few years ago to a celebrated auteur and Oscar nominee. Hot on the heels of the successful Netflix run for his feature Glass Onion, Johnson’s new TV series Poker Face premiered on Peacock, garnering a lot of… Read More Thinking About the Angles | Poker Face (2023) Peacock Series Premiere
Stylish, sexy, and a little bit sleazy, the Carla Gugino-led crime series Leopard Skin almost feels off-brand for Peacock, the streaming home of many mild comedies and NBC reruns. It’s also a lot of fun and I’ll take it where I can get it, though I could certainly do without all the ad breaks. The… Read More We Seem to Have a Trust Problem | Leopard Skin Season 1 (2022) on Peacock
Hardly all that long ago, all TV series were photographed in a common, standardized aspect ratio designed to fill a television screen. The idea that anything intended for home viewing on a TV might – intentionally – not fit the screen seemed almost inconceivable. Nowadays, however, we’ve experienced an explosion of shows shosiret in widescreen… Read More List of TV Shows with Aspect Ratios Wider Than 16:9
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