Category: Film & TV Reviews
‘True Detective’ Season 2 Review [SPOILERS, DUH]
Well folks, that sure was a bumpy ride; I didn’t know if we’d make it. Season 2 of True Detective brought forth from the blogosphere ire, contrarian praise, and mass confusion alike, in just eight too-short episodes. While there’s an awful lot to parse through – and like the few survivors of the festering wound of corruption that…
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Set in 1981, Wet Hot American Summer (2001) is the story of Camp Firewood and the raunchy counselors who strive to make their last day of camp one they’ll never forget. Directed by David Wain, WHAS is comprised of a hilarious cast starring Paul Rudd as Andy, the bad boy who has a way with…
Austin to Boston
The thrill of a concert comes with the experience to hear and (more importantly) feel your favorite music live and to see your favorite artist in the flesh. Still, there’s the barrier that separates an audience member and the artist from individual, face-to-face interaction. Although we can relate to an artist on a personal…
‘Bloodline’ Season 1: Review [SPOILERS]
Netflix has tried its creative hand yet again with the first season of Bloodline, a star-packed drama about the true cost of family. The site’s answer to True Detective follows the Rayburns, a Florida Keys family who essentially own their small town. Patriarch Robert (Sam Shepard) and wife Sally (Sissy Spacek) have had an idyllic beachfront inn for…
REVIEW: ‘Project Almanac’
Since the early 2000s, filmmakers everywhere have become overly obsessed with documentary-style filming, where the movie seems to be more of a home video rather than a full-blown Hollywood film. This is called retroscripting, a technique in which has been used professionally in movies like Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity. After many years and…
A Review of Inside Llewyn Davis with as few spoilers as possible…basically none.
If it’s true that no man is an island, then the Coen brothers have at the very least created a small, compact archipelago in their latest character, Llewyn Davis. The most recent Coen brothers venture, Inside Llewyn Davis, finds them tackling the pre-Bob Dylan, Greenwich Village folk scene circa 1961. Thanks in large to breathtaking…
A Proper Goodbye: Breaking Bad series finale ‘Felina’
It’s over. Finished. No more Heisenberg. No more Jesse. No more science…bitch. Before we start, just be warned that I’m going to be using the words “genius” and “perfect” a lot in this article. Breaking Bad has earned its place at the very top of the list of my (and millions of others’) favorite shows…
Yeah Dexter, We Remember the Monsters — Do You?
When we invest 96 Sundays into a series that should have ended four stale seasons ago, we don’t want a fairytale ending — we want shit to go down. Dexter could have left with dignity. It could have spun full circle with poetic justice, blindsiding viewers by what we claimed to want but suddenly regret. …
REVIEW: Blue Jasmine – Intoxicated by the Anti-Heroine
Watching an elegantly primped, expensively dressed Cate Blanchett in Woody Allen’s newest film, Blue Jasmine feels less like a night of Cristal and tiny hors d’oeuvres and more like a bender of room temperature vodka and plastic orange Xanax bottles. Before you’re completely intoxicated, it’s a bitter mouthful to swallow. Jasmine (Blanchett) is introduced to…
Shut Up and Replay the Hits
How do you determine the size of a bang? Do you judge it by its initial strike? By its immediate attention? The size of a bang isn’t decided by the bang itself. It is decided by its echo. LCD Soundsystem has created one of the biggest echoes in worthwhile, cult-followed contemporary music. As if mirroring…