Smart Characters Doing Interesting Things
If season 6 of Game of Thrones had followed the pattern set by its predecessors, “Home” would have been the premiere and “The Red Woman”...
An Audience Divided
HBO’s Game of Thrones has been putting audiences in uncomfortable positions for five complete seasons, and the sixth is poised to...
Nazi Punks Fuck Off
Early on in Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room, the main characters, members of the touring punk band The Ain’t Rights, are given the...
Field Report: That's Right! EP Release Party at Arlene's Grocery
The crowd had filled the slightly subterranean performance space at Arlene’s Grocery while the first two bands of the night played on...
Punishing Devils and Raven-Haired Gumshoes
It is difficult in 2016 to express just how limp both Marvel and DC’s cinematic offerings have become. Our entire culture has been...
House of Trumps
Much like Homeland, House of Cards taps into current events for both its plot and relevancy. But, while the War on Terror is never...
Technically, Crybaby Squat
Despite barely being on speaking terms three episodes into the season, Jimmy McGill and Mike Ehrmantraut have taken many similar, or...
Unsympathetic Magic
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is my favorite movie of all time. It is, to me, perfection, a movie where every disparate piece of the...
Saul Is The Guy You Should Probably Get On The Phone
When Vince Gilligan announced, near the end of Breaking Bad’s lauded run, that he would produce a spinoff show starring Bob Odenkirk’s...
Hail, February!
January through March is commonly referred to by film critics as The Dumping Ground, the time of year when Hollywood’s stock of quality...