Film & TV

For those worried that the first trailer to the Point Break reboot gave away all the best moments, consider your suspicions confirmed. It turns out, they didn’t even have enough material for a decent second trailer. Storywise, we get the slightest bit of insight, as new semi-European Bodhi and his semi-European gang are correlating robberies […]

[rating=7.00] “The Dog” One wouldn’t normally associate the word “subversive” with a standard zombie/survival drama, especially one that’s followed so closely in the footsteps of its parent series, but this week’s Fear The Walking Dead managed to do just that. It had followed all the necessary steps, and done them impressively well, but what was built […]

[rating=6.00] M. Night Shyamalan is in desperate need of a hit. Despite coming out of the gate strong with a trio of unforgettable films—The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs—the director has floundered in recent years with one lackluster film after another, becoming a pale imitation of himself and losing some ground in the process. He’s […]

Settle down, Nation. Stephen Colbert is finally back. The comedian made his debut as host of The Late Show last night, taking the coveted position from the now retired David Letterman. While Colbert seemed still in total awe of his latest gig, the results of his debut were a bit of a mixed bag, with […]

[rating=9.00] “eps1.9_zer0-day.avi“ It’s been an incredibly titillating and turbulent season for Mr. Robot, and holy shit was it worth the ride. In the beginning we had just one truth, Elliot has created us as an audience to deal with his everyday life. In just ten episodes, he’s taken us on a roller coaster that had no […]

[rating=5.00] “So Close, Yet So Far” So far the pace of Fear The Walking Dead seems to swiftly alternate between a loud, shout-filled panic and long, silent shots that leer over the subjects. We’re told the world is ending, but we only see it on the margins, though those margins are steadily moving inward, and […]

The horror community is in mourning today as it begins to process the loss of Wes Craven, a man whose name is now synonymous with terror. Over a 40 year career, the director helmed some of the scariest movies—and created some of horror’s most memorable characters—of all time. In honor of the director, who died […]

[rating=4.00] It was only a matter of time before someone attempted to make a grand cinematic statement about the wants and desires of millennials. Their ubiquity in pop culture and media makes them ripe for catering to—they are, after all, a significant and not-to-be overlooked demographic, and every generation needs that one defining film that […]

[rating=9.00] Despite its saccharine sounding name, Diary of a Teenage Girl is a film that will challenge audiences with its no holds barred depiction of teenage lust and infatuation. I imagine that reactions will be mixed pretty evenly into two camps: Those who are compelled by the unflinching look inside the mind of a fifteen […]

[rating=8.00] Writer-director Noah Baumbach has made his name on the backs of quirky characters and their foibles. Greenberg, The Squid and the Whale, and Frances Ha are all, at their hearts, character studies that explore the realities of the dreamers and wishers. It’s his wheelhouse, frankly, and he has become a modern master of zany […]

[rating=5.00] No Escape is the sort of mindless fodder that somehow works best in these late summer months. Perhaps it has something to do with the brain-frying effects of spending several months staring at screens witnessing round after round of city crumbling, earth shattering, mind numbing action that so entrenches itself in mid-year box offices. […]

[rating=5.00] “Pilot” Since plans for a spinoff of The Walking Dead started circulating earlier this year, there was a lot of questioning its necessity. The show itself nets maybe one or two good episodes per every season, and a handful of well-crafted scenes aside from that, meaning it’s genuinely entertaining only a little more than ⅛ […]

[rating=7.00] “There Will Be Consequences” The first finale of The Brink finally had something the rest of the season was missing. Humor! It exists! This isn’t to say it made up for the rest of the season, at all. This final episode should have been the end of the story. However, instead we got a cliffhanger […]

[rating=2.00] “Flamingos” Like a child dumping out all its toys just before bedtime, Ballers has found trapped in the corner of its bedroom just in time for the season finale. I’d elaborate further, but somehow the show was able to portray my exact feelings of this show within the opening minute. This is where the GIF […]

[rating=7.00] First the bad. American Ultra is, quite possibly, about as dumb a movie as you can see. It’s a genre mashup that offers nothing new for either of its genres, taking stock stoner characters and putting them into stock superspy situations. Nothing you see here is anything you haven’t seen before in a hundred […]

[rating=9.00] “eps1.8_m1rr0r1ng.qt” This week’s Mr. Robot left me with one, and only thought: Ok, that’s not totally true. Really, after almost a whole season of trying to figure out what the fuck is going on, Robot dropped the truth on us like it was going out of style. Rather than hold up any pretense, they chose […]

In a world where found footage has unabashedly cornered the horror market, one cannot help but weep for the children who will never experience a uniquely terrifying experience. Opting for “true stories” and cheap thrills, as a society we’ve become tremendous cowards when it comes to allowing ourselves to openly fear. Who is thinking of […]

[rating=3.00] “Head-On” Despite some hints of legitimacy halfway through the season, it’s becoming clear that Ballers is not only ill-conceived, it gives the impression that each individual scene was written by one committee, filmed by another, then edited together by a third. With no overall story arc, it’s simply a half-assed assembly of buzzword actors […]

[rating=5.00] “Just a Little Crazy Talk” The penultimate episode of The Brink led us to a few things: one, quite possibly the end of humanity as we know it, and two another vast disappoint that, at this point, comes at absolutely no surprise. Rather than lament all the time and effort we’ve put into the […]

[rating=5.00] The Man from U.N.C.L.E. had the potential to be a lot of things. Crime noir, a period piece, even a solidly cheesy remake of the television show the film was based on. Instead, U.N.C.L.E. reached for all and lost itself in the fold. An early Bond throwback, and spy thriller, this Guy Ritchie directed […]