Last year, Chris Pratt showed up in The Tomorrow War. A bland-looking cookie-cutter sci-fi actioner from Amazon Prime. That bland visual look from Amazon is back along with Chris Pratt to deliver a rock’em sock ’em nauseating vengeance trip where the violent ends barely justify the means. This is the meat and potatoes, airport paperback…
Tag: Drama
Squid Game Spoiler Wrap-Up
With the plot and pacing of Squid Game taking its time to get to the second game, it hasn’t let up since. Episode 6 is the first time it felt like the show breathed and ended my night of bingeing. People wonder how they’d fare in these games. Red Light, Green Light is easy enough….
Think It’s Too Late To Get Into Squid Game? It Has Been Waiting For You.
Who would’ve thought 1 1/2 years into the pandemic we’d get another pandemic sized Netflix hit? Netflix sure hoped so. The most interesting thing so far about Squid Game is that it writes its premise from a character rather than plot approach. This alone lifts it above its predecessors and inspirations. Battle Royale chiefly among…
De Vil Wears Dior: Did Cruella Cure COVID Box-Office Blues?
By: William Hume After keeping its Dalmatians on a leash for over a year Disney finally let the dogs out with a $200 million fashion statement. A best in class crew came together to create an epic costume period piece. Early reactions are rapturous about the fashion and looking at the ensemble that put together…
‘Raised by Wolves’ Picks up Steam as Paradise is Lost
Praise Sol as the show penetrates the mainstream! Joined by Season Two renewal news and an energizing focus on Fall TV, the show is developing and merging its own fandom on Reddit. I came into this week’s episode of Raised By Wolves with the most energy and excitement yet. Episode 5’s flashback of Campion the creator…
Ridley Scott Crystalizes his best ideas in the TNT-bred HBO Max Drama ‘Raised By Wolves’
Upon first glance, I thought the show were a modern retelling of the fairytale The 3 Little Piggies… Not inaccurate, but oversimplified. The best ideas are. Raised by Wolves manages to gather all the ideas creator/ director Ridley Scott has developed through his entire career. Alien, Blade Runner, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Gladiator, American Gangster,…
‘Normal People’ is Millennial Soup
Emotions are messy. Are they enough to serve as the only compelling roadblock on a satisfying narrative path? Normal People thinks so. It’s a story that could not be told with the same sincerity even 12 years ago. Now it almost seems rote. Although Normal People based on the novel of the same name does…
With Chernobyl, the Co-Writer of Scary Movie 4 Brings a Completely Different Horror Disaster
I’m always a bit apprehensive when I get the idea to write a piece on another TV series. The website is called FilmGamer after all. After True Detective, The Night Of, The Leftovers, Game of Thrones, and Sharp Objects, this is my sixth HBO series and eighth tv show covered on this channel so I…
‘A Star Is Born’ Has All the Right Ingredients to Make It One of the Best Films of the Year
Directed By: Bradley Cooper/ Written By: Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters/ Based on the 1976 Screenplay by Frank Pierson, John Gregory Dunne & Joan Didion, based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart, based on a story by William Wellman and Robert Carson/ Starring Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliot, Dave Chapelle, and…
Opinion: ‘The Last of Us Part II’ should be rated ‘Adult’s Only’
Video Game audiences have matured, and developer ‘Naughty Dog’ shouldn’t pull punches when telling its story, but neither should the Entertainment Software Ratings Board. By: William Robertson Hume Editors note: updated for clarity. The following video contains: Intense Violence – Graphic and realistic-looking depictions of physical conflict. Extreme and realistic weapons and depictions of human…
Aaron Sorkin Turns ‘Molly’s Game’ into the Cinemax Version of His Work
On paper, a match between Molly Bloom and Aaron Sorkin and is perfect. They’re both slick operators who hail from the bottom of over achieving families, they are both seeming meticulous and simultaneously prone to getting suddenly sloppy, and they both seemingly suffer soundly from inferiority complexes. Of course it’s nothing new to report that Molly’s Game…
This Is Star Wars!
George Lucas once said that at its heart Star Wars is not a Space Opera, but a Family Soap Opera! Well it turns out another ambitious family soap opera has had the guts to compare itself to Star Wars and it sticks! Beth Pearson fights most of the battles behind the scenes that the rest…
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