The second season of Netflix’s Altered Carbon dropped Friday of last week and had quite a hurdle to clear. First, it had to make the replacement of Joel Kinneman seem natural (which is hard to do when you take into account that his replacement is Anthony Mackie, an African-American) then they had to make the […]
When I started watching Netflix’s I Am Not Okay With This I hadn’t read anything about it prior, so it was a pleasant surprise. If I’m going to watch a comedy I tend to prefer extremes in that it’s either insanely stupid, like The Three Stooges, or bizarre, like Top Secret. Though combine horror with […]
I must admit to not particularly caring about HBO’s Westworld, especially since from the start it seemed to be moving away–perhaps by necessity–from the relatively simple story of the 1973 original. Besides, the times that we’re living in things like AI (artificial intelligence) are common discussion points among people and there’s little chance the series […]
Netflix’s Locke & Key started life as an Amazon series, but when development was abandoned it was picked up by Netflix, who went on to raze what was built prior, and rebuilt from the ground up. And it’s pretty good, though I haven’t read the graphic novels written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Gabriel […]
2019’s Uncut Gems was for me a pleasant surprise–though the movie, due to it’s particularly dark subject matter–was not ‘pleasant’ in the typical sense of the word. That’s not to say that it isn’t worth seeing, but it’s very much adult in terms of its language, themes and sensibilities. The movie is a treatise on […]
Trick has put me in a awkward place because it’s not only a not very good movie, it has very little to redeem it (it stars Omar Epps and the great Tom Atkins–The Fog, Escape From New York, Night of the Creeps, etc–though they’re mostly wasted) In fact, what’s worse is that the central concept […]
I’m watching October Faction on Netflix, and it’s just not resonating with me. It’s been so hard to focus on it that I’ve been jumping between playing Tune Blast, watching Rolling Stone’s Useful Idiots AND an interview with Chris DiStefano on Tigerbelly (the latter I stopped because no matter how handsome he is, few things […]
Netflix’s The October Faction is based on a graphic novel–which I haven’t read–though I think it’s really interesting that they haven’t surrendered the comics space to Disney+ and DC Universe. Which reminds me, if Netflix is looking to adapt a property, why not consider Dark Horse’s Comics Greatest World franchise? Sure, it was canceled but […]
Moon Knight is one of my favorite comic characters–that’s my bust on the left–and while I’m glad to hear that the character is getting a bit of love from Marvel, I have to ask if Disney+ is the right place for the character. Moon Knight, like most characters, has gone through various incarnations though interestingly […]
Netflix’s Sex Education impressed me it’s first season, which pessimistically speaking, had me wondering when the show was going to begin to decline. Because there’s some good shows–or at least were good shows–that went on way too long; cough, cough, Supernatural so while it’s only the second season of Sex Education, I wouldn’t be too […]
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