Blindspot is a fun, engaging episode of Love, Death + Robots. It’s not particularly deep but then again not every episode needs to be (I would go out of my gourd if every episode were a Zima Blue).
Looking at the latest trailer for John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum all I can see is just a lot of stylized violence. That’s not a bad thing in and of itself though that rings hollow after a time. Keanu Reeves is less than a terrible actor than a monochromatic one. There’re no shades to […]
When I first watched Zema Blue, the 14th episode of Love, Death + Robots, I assumed that it was pretty dull story-wise. Then I watched it a second time and realized how wrong I was and the episode is a pretty fascinating commentary on what it means be human. It’s pretty subtle, but it’s there.
As I’ve said before, I’m not a huge fan of CGI-animated movies (or paying to see them, at any rate). I recognize the work that goes into their creation, but for whatever reason they don’t move me. The trailer for Toy Story 4 dropped a day or two ago…so here it is. The trailer is […]
A few hours ago Netflix released the official trailer for Stranger Things 3, and I’m whelmed. Not under, but certainly not over, either because the producers efforts to evoke a particular time period have always rang a bit hollow to me. In other words, I think they’re trying too hard. That’s not to say I […]
Not a bad episode, though certainly not among the best. It’s brought down by an extended stay in the Uncanny Valley (some of the CGI of Samira Wiley’s face is just…not good) and a story that seems a bit contradictory at times. If you’re a fan of aerial combat (the warplanes in this episode, which […]
I’m not done yet with Love, Death + Robots but if Fish Night isn’t the best episode of the series I’ll be genuinely shocked. It’s by turns beautiful–with animation that looks rotoscoped and vaguely like that of Ralph Bakshi–and terrifying. It’s somewhat simplistic story-wise, but as I’ve said before, that’s not a criticism in and […]
Helping Hand is a bit of a joke, and I mean that in the best possible way. It’s a study in what can go wrong in a given situation, and when things go wrong, they GO WRONG. It’s also a story about survival, and about one person will do to stay alive under remarkable odds.
What a disappointing episode. The worse thing is not that the story is relatively simple–as I said with The Dump, there’s nothing wrong with a simple story as long as it’s well-told–it’s that the story demanded a more nuanced way of moving forward. Shape-Shifters revolves around the American military in some Middle Eastern country, fighting […]
The Dump is likelier among the simpler episodes of Love, Death + Robots, but simple isn’t in and of itself a criticism because the story is well-told, which in the end is all that matters. The art is gorgeous, and very reminiscent of Richard Corben’s work .
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