House of Cards‘ generally excellent fourth season was nevertheless a bit unfocused and oddly paced, as if Beau Willimon was throwing all his remaining ideas at us before departing as showrunner. His first concept was a Frank vs. Claire civil war, which plays out the first four episodes, only to be interrupted by a shocking presidential assassination.…
Marvel’s Daredevil is essentially an excellent 13-hour crime drama that happens to be set in a world of superheroes and mind control. It’s similar to The Dark Knight in that way; remove the Marvel logo and the references to The Avengers and it could function on its own as a compelling series about a crime boss expanding…
The first episode of Fuller House represents everything wrong with reboot culture, this new era in which Hollywood feels the need to resurrect dead franchises for seemingly no reason other than that the cast never found anything better to do.
When the inventive and frightening V/H/S was released in 2012, it breathed life into both the found footage and the anthology subgenres. The film was among the best of its kind, a collection of five loosely-connected spooky stories, and it had tremendous sequel potential. Most franchises die because the writers run out of ways to keep the…
The new horror anthology Southbound is weird, messy, and highly entertaining, living up to the legacy of the original V/H/S. I recorded some quick thoughts on the film directly after watching it. A full review will be posted soon!
The Witch does not feel like a movie that was made by a human being. It’s as if the film reel itself is the physical manifestation of evil and should be handed over to the proper authorities rather than screened in theaters.
Comedy Central’s semi-reality series Nathan For You, which returns for its third season tonight at 10pm EST, is a brilliant expose of capitalism taken to its logical conclusion. It’s also a show in which people eat poo flavored yogurt. In the half-hour series, Fielder visits struggling small businesses and offers to help them attract new customers. These establishments,…
The Gallows is like a feature length argument for why found footage needs to die, chock full of absolutely everything that’s wrong with the first-person formula. It isn’t completely without merit, and there’s some great stuff in here, but given how cool the idea is, the movie itself is a massive disappointment. This thing never should have made it to theaters.
Rick and Morty is a show that completely transcends its genre to become one of the most brilliant pieces of television I’ve ever seen. That brilliance has never been more clear than in the show’s eighth episode, “Rixty Minutes,” among the best half hours of a comedy series in the past decade.
After putting it on pause for a bit, we’re back to the Jake and Amy relationship. In this episode, the two are paired together to work on a case, and right from the beginning we can pretty much see exactly what’s going to happen here. Jake still likes Amy. He wants to ask her out.…
BY BRENDAN MORROW 