The Best & Worst 2021 Super Bowl Ads
Okay, Let’s jump right in with the best and then pop down to the worst. The Best Amazon – “Alexa’s Body” It’s not right to judge people on looks alone, unless those looks happen to be attached to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lupin’s Greatest Trick is Transcending All of its Faults
Quick take: Lupin, a French series starring Omar Sy, is five episodes, ranging from 42 to 52 minutes long, which are inspired by the legend of Arsène Lupin, gentleman thief. While the show is a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Anatomy of a Play: Watch the sweetest assist you’ll ever see
Last night, the powerhouse that is the Florida Panthers — did I just write that? — defeated a rock solid Carolina Hurricanes team in overtime. The Canes have skill to burn so you knew the game was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nadiya Bakes and Changes Us All for the Better
There’s something special about Nadiya Hussain. She was the winner of The Great British Bake Off back in 2015 and is widely viewed as its greatest–or at least most exciting–champion ever. I remember...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Opening Scene of Layer Cake Is Amazing
“When I was born, the world was a far simpler place. It was all just cops and robbers.” BOOM. The opening of Layer Cake is a textbook way to lure people into a film. It’s a Daniel Craig monologue over...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is Beartown’s Peter Andersson the Anti-Ted Lasso?
You can often tell when a TV show is an adaptation of a book, because you can almost feel the spine in the story. Beartown on HBOMax certainly feels that way. Adapted from the popular book by Fredrik...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Watch an Into the Badlands Marathon for Free with AMC on Plex
Every once in a while, a friend or colleague will recommend a show and you’ll realize that it’s on a network that either isn’t part of your cable lineup, or — if you’re a cord cutter — on a network you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Is Stephen Merchant as Portal 2’s Wheatley the Funniest Voiceover Performance...
Portal 2 is one of those magical games that has intelligent, addictive game design and yet keeps hammering you over and over again with how evolved its sense of humor is. It follows in the beloved...
View ArticleClik here to view.
False Memories Can Be Imprinted and Reversed and Other Internet Rabbit Holes
Homeland actor David Harewood (who played the dour CIA apparatchik David Estes) will star in a BBC program about the History of Blackface. (Deadline) You’ve probably been pronouncing ‘Adidas’ wrong for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flying Cars by 2023 and other Internet Rabbit Holes
Despite being cancelled at Starz, Neil Gaiman insists that American Gods is “not dead.” (Slashfilm) “I just saw the first prosthetic test for the Clicker and it’s awesome.” — Clickers LIVE! Aaaagh! God...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flying Cars by 2023 and Other Internet Rabbit Holes
Despite being cancelled at Starz, Neil Gaiman insists that American Gods is “not dead.” (Slashfilm) “I just saw the first prosthetic test for the Clicker and it’s awesome.” — Clickers LIVE! Aaaagh! God...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MCU Design, James Bond, Kung Fu, and Other Internet Rabbit Holes
The next James Bond movie, No Time To Die, is coming out on October 8th, 2021. Here are all the Bond films, ranked for your pleasure. (Popcorn Cinema Show) Is Amy Adams crazy in The Woman in the Window...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Nevers Is Steampunk X(wo)-men and It’s Fun
The Nevers is good and you should watch it. The premise has always been fairly bite-sized: “an epic science fiction drama about a gang of Victorian women who find themselves with unusual abilities,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Who’s the Greatest Cinematographer of All Time?
I’ve spent many a night with friends debating this very question, though it’s tough to pick just one. Ultimately it comes down to the era (and region) you were born in, when the magic of movies took...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jeopardy, Sebastian Stan, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Lord of the Rings, and...
In amazing news, the entire series of The Knick, which is an amazing show, has moved out of its purgatory on Cinemax and is now available to stream in full on HBOMax! (Decider) I look at this image of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staged on Hulu is a Beautiful Unicorn of a Show
If there’s one lasting phenomenon that unifies the people of the developed world coming out of this pandemic it’s zoom fatigue. The nearly omnipresent set of Brady Bunch boxes in which so much of our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Mythic Quest Bonus Episode is Sublime
When Apple TV launched its television shingle, it bet on some pretty big properties. Names like Justin Timberlake in Palmer and Jason Momoa’s dystopian sight fantasy See. They banked on the space-based...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Be Amazed by the Best YouTube Comments Section Ever
No one knows the meaning of life for sure, but human beings have the ability to sense when they’re experiencing true, life-altering beauty. We know when there is the now and there is everything that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shadow and Bone Review ‖ Netflix’s Epic Y.A. Fantasy Prioritizes Style over...
I’ve been mulling over how to encapsulate Netflix’s Shadow and Bone into a bite size review where you know whether to binge it or ditch it, but in many ways it defies simple categorization. I think, in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
May’s Video Game Releases Feature at Least One Remaster of an All-Time Legend
As the world returns to some semblance of normalcy and we can actually peek out of our respective hidey-holes at society re-starting outside, I’m not sure how much of a draw video games will be this...
View Article
