Reviews from the big and small screen
10 Cloverfield Lane is streaming on Hulu and Amazon Prime. The Cloverfield Paradox is streaming on Netflix. You’ve only got two hours to watch something (let’s assume you’re a grown-up with stuff in the morning), so which is it gonna be? It’s time for a round of Stream This Not That Is the Cloverfield franchise really […]
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Read More The teaser for the final season of FX’s The Americans is here.“Love loves to love love,” or something like that. What is it about February 14th that brings out the grinch in me? The gender-normative stereotype reinforcing? The forced sappiness and craven branding of emotional expression? The sugar crash that inevitably awaits me after I eat an entire box of cheap chocolates at work that day? […]
Read More “Happy Valentine’s Day, no one!” Ten romantic-ish popculture recommendations for February.You can now count Tom Hardy among the many award-winning actors who have joined the ranks of the superhero universe. Hardy will be battling for Marvel in the upcoming Venom, the first teaser trailer for which was released this morning. Venom is a supervillian turned antihero from the Spiderman universe and Hardy seems like a perfect […]
Read More First Venom trailer teases Tom Hardy’s anithero transformationHey you with the remote in your hand. Why aren’t you watching Marjorie Prime? Why You Probably Aren’t: Ok, maybe I’ll let you off the hook here. I’m the person who usually keeps up with these things, and I have zero memory of this movie coming out in August of last year. I’m imagining it […]
Read More Why Aren’t You Watching: Marjorie Prime“Don’t you think it’s weird…that we only seem to hang out when the world’s about to end?” – Nancy, aka Nance The residents of Hawkins, Indiana have been through a lot. At least the ones we got to know back in Season 1 of Stranger Things: the Netflix show that unexpectedly became a meme-generating, merch- selling […]
Read More Who You Gonna Call? Stranger Things Season 2 Gets the Gang Back Together For the ApocalypseThe House of the Devil available to stream with Shudder (free 7 day trail available) on Amazon “During the the 1980s over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive Satanic Cults…the following is based on true unexplained events” So begins Ti West’s The House of the Devil – a 2009 horror film […]
Read More October Watch-a-thon, Day 7It (2017) in theaters now I knew I’d enjoy doing an October Watch-a-thon, but I didn’t know how much I’d love finding new ways to cheat. Unfortunately cheating is a must sometimes, especially on weekdays when I don’t have much time to write. For this one, I’m going cross-promotional. On the latest episode of Red […]
Read More October Watch-a-thon, Day 5It Follows, Available for streaming on Netflix Hi. Cheating again. It Follows came out in 2014, and since then I’ve been talking about it to whoever would listen. It has a brilliant, original concept and commits to its story and characters in a way that’s rare in horror. There are no cheap thrills in It Follows, […]
Read More October Watch-a-thon, Day 4The Witch, Available for streaming on Amazon Prime Alright friends, these are going to get shorter as the week wears on me. Luckily it’s easy to put my love for the 2015 horror film, The Witch, into a few appreciative sentences – the movie is visually precise, hauntingly acted and will send all those nightmares that […]
Read More October Watch-a-thon, Day 3
The Screen and I 