Earlier this year we were given a film that attempted to subvert the typical expectations of the heist genre simply by wonder “what if it was heist movie, but with women?” That movie was Ocean’s 8, and it was…fine. At the time I remember thinking it was surprisingly […]
Folks. I have good news for you today. For basically the first time this season I have an episode to share with you that didn’t result in active dislike. It’s far from perfect, but this is an episode I can actually say I enjoyed. Which, I’ve got to […]
Over the course of their illustrious career, the Coen Brothers have gained the reputation of being creators that are hard to figure out what they’re going to do next. Their films have a general aesthetic to them, but within that aesthetic they’re able to tell stories […]
Hey, you know what type of Simpsons episode we haven’t had in a while? One where we focus on the love-life of a tertiary character that we really don’t have much investment in, and whose love-life has been proven to be narratively inert. So, you know what […]
2018 has been a really solid year for movies. We’ve been given some incredibly massive blockbusters that have destroyed records, we’ve gotten a slew of wonderful dramas, and a nice collection of weirder stuff that will probably be the most remembered in a few decades. But, in […]
In general I’m not one to get bent out of shape at the concept of remakes. Yeah, most remakes aren’t able to top the quality of the original film, but I’ve never understood the mentality of taking a remake as some sort of affront to the legacy […]
So far Season 30 has not really been the best season of the Simpsons. It’s actually been pretty rough, giving us some of the most inconsistent and generally weak episodes I’ve seen in quite a long time, really giving me a lot of worry regarding the future […]