Andrew Scott is an acting god. With minimal effort–the shift of his eyes, the turn of his head–he somehow manages to get across more seemingly genuine emotion than some actors do with their entire bodies. And he’s at the top of his game in Smithereens, a cautionary tale of the addictive effects of technology. Unfortunately, […]
The current Fifth season of Black Mirror is likely the shortest thus far–lasting only three episodes–but you can’t necessarily judge the quality of a season by how many episodes it consists of. And besides, if a shorter season results in better quality writing and directing, who’s complaining? The first episode, Striking Vipers, is a particularly […]
Having seen 1982’s The Dark Crystal I initially wondered whom was resisting whom because if you’ve seen that movie you probably noticed that at the end that it tied up everything neatly. Looking at the trailer, it looks like Age of Resistance is a prequel and sets up and early chapter in the rebellion (?) […]
This is a great teaser though the problem is that it’s fairly common knowledge that Netflix has terminated their relationship with Marvel Television, so this is the last season of Jessica Jones, no matter where the narrative was taking her. I don’t know what’s behind the bad blood between Netflix and Marvel Television but I […]
I was looking for something new to watch on Netflix, when I noticed that there was a new movie, Malibu Rescue, on the streaming channel. I started to watch it, honestly not expecting too much, till I noticed in the opening credits that it was directed by SAVAGE STEVE HOLLAND! SAVAGE STEVE HOLLAND! This guy […]
Richard Shepard’s The Perfection is a damn good horror movie. As I mention in my review, it’s production designed to the nines. You can tell there’s some serious money being spend on this movie but it’s oddly not ostentatiously so in that it doesn’t feel like the producers a gathering a massive pile of greenbacks […]
I’ve always enjoyed British sci-fi. Reason being, it tends to be particularly dry and focus more on things like technology and hardware than it does on human emotions (they’re there but usually aren’t a priority). And sure, that can make for some particularly wooden television at times–check out the first season of Space: 1999. It’s […]
The first season of Netflix’s The Society dropped late last week and having watched all ten episodes…it’s okay. I wouldn’t call it a must see–it’s significantly weaker than 2015’s Between (also on Netflix) a series that covers similar territory thematically, but works much, much better. That’s not to say The Society is a bad show–it’s […]
This is a pretty good trailer. It plays up the horror elements (in fact one scene in particular plays like a homage to John Carpenter’s The Fog) and feels very atmospheric. Tone is important, and it’s something that DC–in movies as well as streaming, if Titans is any indicator–for whatever reason can’t seem to get […]
The Silence is thematically speaking vaguely similar to A Quiet Place and Bird Box in that they all revolve around antagonists that key into a particular sense. A Quiet Place revolved around creatures that hunted by sound–the same as those in The Silence–while Bird Box’s terrors were visually driven. And that similarity would be fine […]
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