Entertainment Unfiltered
“Beware the moon, lads.” It’s so hard to make a good werewolf movie. The mythology is so baroque, so rooted in the Old World, that it’s hard to tell how seriously you should take it. What do you keep? What do you ignore? Weirdly enough, one of the best werewolf stories in recent memory was […]
There’s a kangaroo in the Vatican now. I feel like you could take any one plot point from The Young Pope and use it to illustrate how crazy the show is. Here’s another one: a nun wears a t-shirt reading “I’m A Virgin But This Is An Old Shirt.” So, yes, The Young Pope is a […]
Star Trek: Discovery has been all over the place while still quite secretive. We are all excited for the possibilities with word that the main story is about an “incident” in Star Trek history that has been talked about before, but never fully explored. What that is, is still a mystery as Fuller has confirmed it’s […]
One of my favorite aspects of 11.22.63 is the idea of the past as a sentient being, and a protective, malevolent one at that. Someone or something that resents Jake’s intrusive presence, and fights back at him through whatever means it can find. It makes 11.22.63 wholly different from any other time travel narratives, where the protagonist is […]
As per the usual (if anything in the world of Ryan Murphy’s horror anthology series American Horror Story can be called “usual”) Halloween season is upon us and brings with it this first episode of the latest AHS iteration: Hotel. The premiere combs together a variety of influences in a bubbling cauldron of sex, blood […]
Margaux and I discuss the uneven but promising debut of Fear the Walking Dead. Trevor: First things first: there was a lot about “Pilot,” Fear the Walking Dead’s aptly titled debut, that I really liked. But there’s a huge problem which I think we need to address, not just with FTWD, but with prequel series in […]
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar is the next film in the long running Lion King series. The film is set to make its debut on The Disney Channel this November and is the lead-up to a new ongoing television series starting Simba’s offspring. The film is setting up the Lion Guard television series, which […]
Edgar Wright did not direct Ant-Man. Can we just get that out of the way? Ever since Wright’s very public departure from the film last year – a project he had been working on since the Bush administration – Ant-Man has had a cloud over it. Internet critics salivated over the prospect of ripping into a Marvel film; […]
Margaux and I cannot get enough of Halt and Catch Fire‘s nearly flawless second season. Trevor: If you’d asked me last year, I would have scoffed at the idea of Halt and Catch Fire being better than True Detective. But here we are. Margaux: That’s sort of an apples and oranges situation. Halt and Catch […]
I know it’s sort of a side note, but the intro really highlights how the gems have slowly been redesigned just a bit over the course of the show. Pearl got hers first, followed by Garnet in the season 1 finale. Now? It’s Amethyst’s turn. The episode starts with Steven taking an online survey to […]
It appears as though Bloodline is going to have these place-setting episodes every few hours. The Netflix original has been content to move along at its own leisurely, sun-baked pace, but up until “Part 5,” that’s worked in its favor. “Part 5″‘s glacial pace reduces the whole hour to something of a slog, even if […]
There are weeks in which the strain of reading comics sometimes becomes too much. I’m not saying that it’s a difficult activity, but rather it’s something that just weighs heavy on my shoulders. There are so many books, most of which are dark and intense, that require a serious investment to truly enjoy. Someday’s I […]
