Weekend Roundtable: 2018 TV Catch-Up
In this era of so-called Peak TV, there’s simply way too much television content on the air, on cable, satellite, and on streaming to keep up with everything of interest. As a corollary to last week’s...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Russian Doll
The premise of Groundhog Day has been imitated so often* that it’s practically a genre to itself. Amazingly, Netflix’s dark comedy series Russian Doll manages to bring some exciting new twists to the...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Velvet Buzzsaw
My adoration for Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler is immense. The thought him collaborating again with Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo on a new movie that skewers the pretentions of the art world gave me hope...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Kingdom Season 1
If you’re feeling (as many are) that The Walking Dead has just about played out anything interesting about zombie horror, Netflix’s recent South Korean acquisition Kingdom attempts to breathe some...
View ArticleNow Streaming: The Umbrella Academy Season 1
Its contract with Marvel may be ending, but Netflix isn’t out of the comic book superhero business by any stretch. The Umbrella Academy is the streaming provider’s new attempt to fill the void left by...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Sex Education Season 1
As much as I love the concept of Gillian Anderson playing a kooky sex therapist, Netflix’s new(-ish) comedy series Sex Education takes a few episodes to figure out what kind of show it wants to be. For...
View ArticleTriple Frontier Review: Zero Delight
I knew little going into Triple Frontier save for the obvious. The film is being released theatrically for a short window before hitting Netflix, it’s directed by J.C Chandor (whose Margin Call, All Is...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Love, Death + Robots
Suffering the most juvenile and sexist aspects of Heavy Metal (the movie and illustrated magazine) and 1990s anime, Netflix’s new animated sci-fi anthology series Love, Death + Robots has a handful of...
View ArticleNow Streaming: The Dirt
Musical bio-pics are always welcome to ascend above the production value of Lifetime movies and VH1’s Behind the Music, but not all accept the invitation for the elevation. Netflix’s The Dirt runs,...
View ArticleNow Streaming: The Highwaymen
Thanks to Arthur Penn in 1967, Bonnie and Clyde will always have a place in cinema’s hall of legends. It’s understandable that others would want to take on the outlaws’ story and put their own twist on...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Turn Up Charlie
You may find it difficult to picture someone as physically endowed and dreamily handsome as Idris Elba playing a has-been loser (albeit a charming one), but Netflix’s recent comedy series Turn Up...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: Haunting on Fraternity Row
After so many sorority house massacres, maybe you’re thinking it’s long past time for something like Haunting on Fraternity Row to help even the Greek playing field. Sure, there are a whole bunch of...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Mercy Black
Sometimes horror relies on the element of surprise to get our attention, but that rarely refers to the release date of a new movie. This past Sunday, Netflix quietly dropped the latest Blumhouse...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Thriller
Netflix’s Thriller takes the typical teen slasher and puts it in Compton. Unfortunately, moving the location to one rarely shown in genre film is not enough to save the movie from itself. It begins...
View ArticleNow Streaming: The Wandering Earth
Move aside, Serenity. A new movie on Netflix is coming for your title of best worst film of 2019, and this one is in space. The Wandering Earth was a blockbuster motion picture in China, but was...
View ArticleNow Streaming – Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Can documentaries that lie tell deeper truths? What happens when a film ostensibly presented as non-fiction has actors, famous or otherwise, completely bullshitting stories about one of the most famous...
View ArticleNow Streaming: I Am Mother
With, for much of its running time, just one human character trapped in an isolated compound with a seemingly-friendly robot whose intentions eventually come into question, the Netflix sci-fi thriller...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Anima
The latest buzzy release on Netflix is far from the usual Adam Sandler comedy or true crime documentary. This weekend’s autoplay title is instead a 15-minute collaboration between director Paul Thomas...
View ArticleNow Streaming: Another Life
Former Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff returns to duty in space for Netflix’s new sci-fi drama Another Life. I wish she could have brought some of that prior show’s good writing with her. The...
View ArticleOne Man’s Trash: Alien Warfare
Never has a film been more aptly titled than Alien Warfare. At least, once Chris (David B. Meadows) gets off the phone, I’m pretty sure some aliens are going to start wreaking havoc. Okay, once Chris...
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