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Green Book feels a bit familiar
We seem to be living in a time when relationships between people of different races has deteriorated to a pre-Civil Rights era and movies like Selma and The Birth of a Nation make valiant, if flawed, attempts to remind us ...
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I am Paul Walker tries to fit a life and a tragedy into one movie
I believe the first time I ever saw Paul Walker in a movie was the 1998 movie Pleasantville as the well-meaning captain of the basketball team stereotype (intentional) and I mainly recall just him as fitting into the world. He ...
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TV by the Decade :: December 2•8
The TV season is really getting into the dead of winter with the first full week of December with no new programs premiering in the decades between 1958 and 1998. But with the rise of cable TV networks looking for ...
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The Favourite is a delightfully dark comedy that lets its stars shine
There was this movie a few years ago called The Lobster with such luminaries as Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, and Olivia Colman, and boy, was it a weird movie. I thought it was alright, but it had a very shaggy ...
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The Possession of Hannah Grace :: What happens after an exorcism is boring
When everyone is broke from Black Friday shopping and still getting over pounds of turkey they stuffed their face with, movies like The Possession of Hannah Grace get released. The weekend after the Thanksgiving holiday is a horrible time to ...
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Meow Wolf: Origin Story is a story of a world you never realized was there
I am no art nerd. I know a lot of the references, but not enough to pass a pop quiz on them. I know even less about the more avant garde or 'post-modern' styles, but one thing I am is ...
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Castlevania continues to be the best video game adaptation
One of the most lurid video game adaptations to ever be released appeared on Netflix last year. The four-episode first season was one of the best video game adaptations I have seen. It did an immaculate job at following its ...
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Becoming Astrid sweetly tells the tale of the origin of an author you’ve forgotten
Pippi Longstocking was an odd book, but I did enjoy reading it as a kid. There were only three books, but I did read them, long, long ago. Those were the only books I ever read by Swedish author Astrid ...
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Ralph Breaks the Internet is jam packed and works most of the time
Back in 2012, I decreed Wreck-It Ralph as a modern almost-classic, and I stand by that. It delved into some real existential themes, had a wondrous set of voice performances, and was unafraid to give a complicated ending, having Ralph ...
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Disney’s The Little Mermaid enchants at Toby’s Dinner Theatre
In 1989, Disney experienced an animation Renaissance (of the classic, hand-drawn style) with the release of The Little Mermaid, the studio's spin on the classic fairy tale. In 1991, Disney ventured to Broadway with the opening of a stage version ...
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Carole King and friends make some Beautiful music at the National Theatre
'Will You Love Me Tomorrow?', 'Take Good Care of My Baby', 'The Loco-Motion', 'One Fine Day', 'Up On the Roof', '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman'. Some of the biggest hits of the 1960s by some of the ...
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Forget everything you know about the heroic outlaw Robin Hood
Errol Flynn. Kevin Costner. Russell Crowe. Sean Connery. Cary Elwes. These are all actors who have graced the big screen as the heroic outlaw Robin Hood. Taron Egerton, who previously starred in both Kingsman movies, joins the ranks of classic ...
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