Entertainment Unfiltered
Biopics, particularly of musicians, have become so cliché at this point that it can sometimes be a wonder any filmmakers even bother anymore. As a genre they can often play as straightforwardly unironic and blush inducing as any romantic picture. With Jimi: All Is By My Side writer and first-time director John Ridley has crafted a movie […]
Scandal can be one of the most frustrating shows on TV right now; it has a bag of tricks that it reaches into every episode, without fail, and your enjoyment of it really depends on your tolerance for Shonda Rhimes speechifying and unnecessary camera tricks. That said, it’s entertaining as hell, and if you looked […]
Even when The Bridge moves at a faster clip, like it does in “Quetzalcoatl,” it somehow, paradoxically, maintains its leisurely pace. It’s the kind of show that not only allows you to luxuriate in this world it’s created, but practically insists that you do so. This would be a colossal misstep if the world of […]
The Knick gets better every week, and Margaux and I cannot get enough of it. Trevor: Are you fucking kidding me with this show? Every scene of The Knick is so masterfully acted, shot, directed, written, and scored. The level of confidence on display is frankly stunning. Margaux: I don’t even know where to start […]
For more than seven decades now Ayn Rand’s work has served as a pseudo-intellectual cover for unbridled selfishness and market-worship. Particularly in the last five years Rand, who died in 1982, has seen a heightened interest in her apocalyptic writings. To some,they are eerily reflected in the world we live in now of bailouts, bigger government, and global […]
“Eidolon” was a much more restrained, and therefore better, episode of The Bridge than was last week’s “Rakshasa.” This show is at its best when it strikes a more contemplative tone, especially in this second season, which is so much darker than the first, both visually and thematically (I maintain that Eleanor Nacht is one […]
Margaux and I don’t know how to make new friends, so we decided to take a look at Steven Soderbergh’s medical drama The Knick. Trevor: I loved the opening shot of “Method and Madness.” I wrote in my notes that it looked like something out of a Nicolas Winding Refn film, then it turns out […]
“B.J. and the A.C.” – no, I don’t know what that title refers to either, so if you do please enlighten me – was probably the most narratively straightforward episode of The Leftovers so far. After last week’s stellar bottle episode, it was necessary to check in with some characters besides Matt Jamison (who appeared […]
So, Hannibal is the best show on TV, can we just agree on that? There’s no other show right now – not Game of Thrones, not Mad Men, not even Fargo – that is as daring or confident. In a just world, Hannibal would air on Sundays at 9, and enjoy the same rabid following […]
First person adventures have always been a tricky minefield to wade through. Forcing the player to slow down to focus on puzzle aspects tends to ruin an experience, but Qbeh-1 never forces the player to slow down and conform to it vision, rather it clearly begins as a slower paced adventure. There are no demons […]
Damn – that’s how you do a season finale, Arrow. “Unthinkable” hit the ground running and didn’t let up once; the breakneck pace saw the return of multiple characters (some presumed dead, because Arrow), the death of one, the departure of a few more, and revelation after revelation. Everything is still going to shit in […]
Chef is a great experience. While it’s not without its faults, it’s clearly a passion project for Jon Favreau (who wrote, directed, and stars), and that passion permeates every frame of the film. The food is shot so gorgeously that every hackneyed blog on the Internet has called Chef “food porn,” the dialogue and performances […]
