Friday March 13th: Hollywood’s last stand before pulling most major releases from the schedule. One of the last movies released was a mid-range Blumhouse film, The Hunt. It made a few bucks, shuffled quickly onto premium Video On Demand and despite its pedigree, wasn’t very good. Friday November 13th, Universal released a Blumhouse movie: ‘Freaky‘….
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Westworld Should Accept Its Stupidity
“After Season 2, I too wish Westworld was a completely different show.” – Twitter Season One of Westworld was intriguing, fun, and mysterious. Going in with only a scant blueprint of the original 70’s Michael Crichton movie on which it was based, it had several advantages. Anthony Hopkins’ great performance, mixed with a great character…
Why is HBO’s ‘The Outsider’ such a big hit?
Murder mystery is so hot right now. Seriously, it’s the one sustainable resource on television. Netflix is filled with an endless assortment of documentaries and shows on it, and British television has made a cottage industry out of it. With that in mind, it should be no shock that the HBO adaptation of the recent…
The December Edition
A lot of decent Netflix material here.
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…
‘Game of Thrones’ Turns Around Dire Critical Prospects for a Fitting, Surprisingly Sappy & Bittersweet Series Finale
Unrelated: Is it odd that Arya Stark & Tyrion Lannister/ Night King Killer & King’s Hand/ The Anti & Rejected Royalty never meet? “The Bells” may have been the worst episode of the series in the worst season, but “The Iron Throne” or “A Time of Spring” as it should be called was as good of…
One Episode to Go: Can ‘Game of Thrones’ Stick the Landing?
Fans faith of the most popular show on earth was shaken as quality wise the writing quality on Game of Thrones has dipped significantly as its endgame comes into focus. The source of the problem according to fans and reviews seems to rest entirely on the writer/ creators David Benioff & D.B. Weiss. Game of…
“The Bells” Was the Worst Episode of ‘Game of Thrones’. Ever.
That was historical. A Game 7 buzzer beater the likes of which nobody has seen before. It’s the law of conservation of energy that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it can only be transferred from one form to another. I am of course talking about the NBA playoff game between The Philidelphia…
“The Long [And Dark] Night” Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 3: SPOILER REVIEW
What is most surprising about this week’s episode of Game of Thrones is that after giving us such classic outstanding episodes of the series such as The Winds of Winter, Hardhome & The Battle of the Bastards for which he won an Emmy Award, director Miguel Sapochink gives us something so adequate it’s arguably less…
“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” Review: ‘Hell of a Night’
This was an unquestionably good episode of Game of Thrones, the best in years (qualified praise since there’s only been a handful of episodes), and this is what TV from a cultural standpoint is all about. Well received, good non-clunky fan service and payoffs. When a show can just film people talking in a dimly…
“Once More Unto The Throne” ‘Game of Thrones’ Final Season (8) Premiere, Review: Winterfell
Plot: A bunch of Medieval folks fight against ancient snow zombies and each other in the most expensive TV Show of all time [R-RATED]. Preamble: 6 episodes, over $100 million dollars to spend on TV. That’s gotta be some sort of record. You gotta wonder if AT&T‘s acquisition of Warner Bros. last June afforded the…
Sharp Objects Ends on a Typically Dour Note
Where to end? A lot of TV shows conclude in ways that don’t wrap up every element of plot. Gone Girl doesn’t finish at the end of Dunne’s story, but concludes at the most interesting chapter. Having given you enough words about each of the characters that you can convincingly draw your own conclusions. Great Murder…
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