Every time I discover a new show on PBS Masterpiece, I feel like a good friend has invited me over on a wintry evening to enjoy a cozy time chatting by the fireplace and drinking a cup of hot cocoa. Although a lot of attention these days is devoted to
Agatha Christie’s detective classic Death on the Nile was first published in 1937 – a date that’s now 85 years in the past, before the start of World War II, even. I’m sure you could find plenty of works from that same time period that now feel dated and have
I’ll never forget the first time I watched the finale of The Mandalorian season 2. Seeing Luke Skywalker show up to fight with his lightsaber was already a huge geek-out moment for me, but I just about fell off the sofa with geeky glee at the post-credits sequence, which featured
If I had a label for my relationship with Attack of the Clones, it would probably be “it’s complicated.” I adored this movie in high school, fell out of love with it in my 20s, and I now (kind of, maybe) love it again? I know what you’re thinking –
For a long time I thought I hated Westerns, until I learned that I’d just been watching the wrong ones. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly taught me that yes, there actually were Westerns for me – specifically, the subgenre of revisionist Westerns. As soon as I saw the
Whenever I log into Disney+ to search for something to watch, I always see the National Geographic documentaries pop up in my suggestions. Yet even though the preview image promises beautiful cinematography and an intriguing topic, I inevitably end up scrolling on by. Sometimes there’s an unfair perception that documentary
It’s a new year, and I’m ready for the first challenge I set for myself in 2022. (A quick recap in case you missed the original blog post: This year I made 10 entertainment goals to stretch myself as a blogger and podcaster, including watching a documentary and a foreign
Confession time: When it came to my media consumption last year, I got a little bit…well…lazy. What I mean by that is, I feel like I didn’t try very hard to watch a wide array of content. I tended to stick to genres I knew well (superhero flicks, cheesy Netflix
My entertainment year in review for 2020 was, unavoidably, rather underwhelming. Many of the movies I’d been looking forward to last year got postponed due to the pandemic, and I spent Christmas sick with COVID, watching Wonder Woman 1984 at home on the couch instead of the theater (hint: it
As the Doctor might say, there’s a lot of “wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey” shenanigans going on in Spider-Man: No Way Home. The plot is a complicated web (yes, I couldn’t resist, but at least I’m getting the inevitable spider puns out of the way early!) that weaves together the multiverse, magic, and
Steven Spielberg has long been one of my favorite film directors. Few in Hollywood have a resume matching his, which spans action-adventure classics like Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park, beloved family films like E.T., and Oscar-winning masterpieces like Schindler’s List. So I was very, very curious when I heard that
After I finished reading Frank Herbert’s Dune for the first time years ago, I put down the book, fairly certain I would not be returning to that fictional universe. Although it was a science fiction classic and I appreciated its importance to literature overall, it just wasn’t for me…or so
