Returning to one of the outstanding movies of your young adulthood is not without some risk. Is it as good as you remember? Have the glasses through you gaze upon it become so deeply and heavily rose-tinted that they filter out even the merest hint of middle-aged criticality? In Continue Reading
1984: A very weird year for Stranger Things
SNAPSHOT Stranger Things season 2 is set a year after Will’s return, and everything seems back to normal… but a darkness lurks just beneath the surface, threatening all of Hawkins. It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: S1, E3 “Context is for Kings” / E4 “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry” review
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FUNGUS WITH SOME WARP SPEED GRUNT … When most people reach rock bottom, the natural inclination is to immediately seize the first opportunity to get back up the slippery slope of life. But then most people are not Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), most recently seen Continue Reading