Do you know what Strange New Worlds season 2, Marvel’s Secret Invasion miniseries, the new Haunted Mansion movie, and the historical biopic Chevalier have to do with each other? Well truthfully, not much. However, I recently watched all four of these and wanted to talk about them. One surprised me,
This has been a very strange summer at the box office. Disney, normally a box office juggernaut that makes other studios tremble in fear and shift their own release dates, stumbled uncharacteristically this summer movie season, with a run of underperforming blockbusters. Then, #Barbenheimer took the world by storm, and
I didn’t originally plan to see the Barbie movie, even though that trailer spoofing the opening scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey did make me chuckle. The film looked like a strange parody of the Barbie brand with a dash of The Lego Movie and the admittedly very funny Barbie
If you’re looking for a feel-good summer popcorn flick, then Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is not that movie. What it is, however, is a stunning, morally complicated biopic about the man behind the creation of the atomic bomb, which forever changed our world and the way we look at war. Christopher
I broke a lot of my own preferred viewing rules to watch season 3 of Picard. I had not watched season 1 or 2 of this show. While I was familiar with The Next Generation characters and had seen a handful of episodes, I knew far less about TNG than
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One has a lot working against it. It’s the seventh(!) movie in a franchise, a number when many other franchises have long since started to overstay their welcome. It’s a long movie too, clocking in at almost three hours. And it isn’t even disguising
We’re now more than halfway through summer movie season, and by this point, I’ve watched a lot of films. I feel like I’ve made a trip to the theater at least once a week, and blockbuster seasons feels — at least on the surface — the most normal it’s been
Doctor Who: Rosa (1 episode, s11e03, 2018) A powerful historical story. Montgomery, Alabama – 1943: A seamstress named Rosa Parks boards a bus on her way home from work. She pays the fee and heads to the back where “colored people” are forced to sit. The driver tells her that
Doctor Who: The Ghost Monument (1 episode, s11e02, 2018) A new family looking for an old friend. Floating in the vacuum of deep space, the terror sets in as Ryan loses consciousness. A spacecraft arrives and the next thing that he knows is waking up in a pod with Graham
To say that there is drama surrounding The Flash would be something of an understatement — and this applies both on-screen and off. There’s plenty of drama within the film itself, as superhero speedster the Flash (a.k.a. Barry Allen figures out how to run fast enough to travel back in
Doctor Who: The Woman Who Fell to Earth (1 episode, s11e01, 2018) These new teeth are definitely weird. Ryan Sinclair records a YouTube video and decides to talk about the greatest woman he ever met. He recounts trying to ride a bicycle with his grandmother Grace and her husband Graham
Doctor Who Series Ten and Twelfth Doctor Summary Peter Capaldi’s final run was nearly on par with his last set. This group of stories kept up with Series Nine‘s continuing mission to analyze the human condition in the science fiction tradition. Series Ten focused less on vengeance but kept a
