Month: May 2021
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The Criterion Cut: The Bad Sleep Well
In this Criterion Cut, Douglas introduces us to an unsung classic film in director Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well. Hot takes on Shakespeare abound! If you’re still quarantined, or at least staying home a lot more and looking to fill your time, then perhaps watching some underrated yet classic movies will do the trick.…
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Promising Young Woman (Blu ray Review)
As Promising Young Woman arrives on home video, Dan Nicholls takes a look at the movie, commentary, and special features on the blu ray release. This past year didn’t do many favors for the world but it did work wonders for Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut Promising Young Woman. Had it been released in late spring…
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Ted Lasso: A Modern Hero of Noble Behaviour
With Season 2 just around the corner, KK praises season 1 of the feel-good AppleTV series. Finally! I finally found the show and the character I’ve been looking for. The one that existed vaguely in my busy, confused mind as I’ve been navigating the covid world for the last few months. To wit, I nearly…
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The Defiant Ones
KK examines a slick HBO documentary series explaining how the music world changed forever when rap and rock got into bed together. Defiant (dɪˈfaɪ.ənt) – proudly refusing to obey authority. Watching Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre get together for a collaboration seems as weird to me as Alice Cooper and Kenny Rogers recording a duet…
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Army of the Dead
No doubt the real army of the undead will be Snyder fanboys calling this unabashed genius, but it’s mostly an exercise mediocrity and confusing nonsense. With Army of the Dead, director Zack Snyder finally steps away from the DC Comics world and heads back to Zombietown. Love or hate Snyder, his debut feature Dawn of…
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Resident Evil Village
Jeff reviews Resident Evil Village and takes a stroll down memory lane thinking about games he’s set down the controller on before he’s finished them. I don’t really quit games very often, at least not as often as I likely should. I’ve gotten better recently, just out of sheer necessity when I’m reminded of my…
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The Mass Effect Trilogy
In advance of the release of the new Mass Effect remaster later this week, Blake Morrow plays through the original versions to get himself primed. Growing up completely enthralled by the Star Wars universe, I’ve always had a deep love for science-fiction fantasy and the high concept ideas it can come with. When BioWare, the…
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Jazz in China
Robert Barry Francos takes a look at professor, pianist, and now filmmaker Eugene Marlow’s documentary about jazz music in China called, well, Jazz in China. Jazz is an oxymoron, such as is playing the sitar: there are relatively strict rules dependent on subgenre, but within those rules there is also a freedom of form and…
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The Very End and Sad Reality of Shameless
It’s cheap bar grub, so the food isn’t awesome – but the Franks and Lips are pretty damn good. Pull up a drinking stool. We gotta talk. I don’t blame you if you haven’t kept up with Shameless (2011) over its ten year run. That’s a long time to pay attention to something on tv.…
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Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before
A harsh lampooning of Morrissey has KK wondering if it’s still acceptable to love The Smiths. The April 18 episode of The Simpsons (1989) was a searing parody of Morrissey, and the Moz has lashed back. In just a matter of hours after airing, headlines began to appear atop stories that all gasp and murmur in furious…