Category: Reviews
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THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN WILL STOP YOU IN YOUR TRACKS:
When the teaser for Game of Thrones’ first season aired, I devoured the entire six book series within two months. When I heard the smoking Tom Hardy was going to star in Child 44, I bought the thriller on Kindle to read that very night. Paula Hawkins though, will need to forgive me. I did…
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THE CLASSIC, CUTESY FILMS OF HALLOWEEN
What is better than Octobear? Watching Halloween movies during Octobear! Some people are horror fanatics and some, not so much. The latter spend their time with what should be considered “Halloween classics.” For them, this is a reminder of the movies they love to watch and for the rest of you: this is a wake…
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BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
It’s not that often that we can point to a modern film as having invented an entire genre. 1999’s The Blair Witch Project is one such movie. It followed three Maryland film students who go to the Black Hills forest to make a documentary about the titular “Blair Witch.” Supposedly, the entire movie was compiled…
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BOJACK: A PICTURE OF SADNESS
For the first year and half of its existence, Bojack Horseman lingered around my Netflix like that homeless person you pass on the way home from work every day. It remained ignored because of Bojack’s generally ignorable appearance with his pot belly, drink in hand, and long face of chronic regret, (ha, horse jokes.) Watching…
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STRANGER THINGS
If you haven’t already garbled down Netflix’s new original Stranger Things, you should before school starts. Everyone in your classes will be talking about it. Created by the Duffer brothers, Stranger Things is set in 1983 in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana and follows the supernatural disappearance of a young boy. There’s also telekinesis,…
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BRAINDEAD: A TELEVISION ANOMALY
This summer Robert and Michelle King (creators of The Good Wife) helm a new CBS political thriller comedy about senatorial politics, government conspiracies, and zombie bugs: BrainDead. While unlikely, it is a tremendous accomplishment and, for its writers, cast, and for contemporary TV in general, BrainDead is truly an anomaly; one that I sincerely adore…
