Newton Thomas Sigel is in my opinion a very talented cinematographer. He lent a unique look and creative eye to the otherwise by the numbers Bohemian Rhapsody, and staged some memorable images like the crane down newspaper shot in Superman Returns or Jean Grey parting the waters in X2: X-Men United. Yet he is not…
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Netflix’s “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” Is Here to Distract You From Your Fixation on the Coronavirus
It’s unbelievable, fascinating, suspect, and ripe for immediate consumption in the face of a pandemic and raises questions about public taste and convictions that yet have an answer. By: William Hume It is easy to see what makes Netflix’s new documentary series so compelling: during this pandemic we are currently suffering, the show offers an…
In Its Third Season, Ozark Threatens to Become a Good Show
Ozark, a show that started off as a poor man’s Breaking Bad with worse acting and a lot worse writing, has a lot of angles and plot pivots to play in Season Three. None get more mileage than the modern marital fears of Boomers/ Gen X. I include the label because I was surprised how many…
The December Edition
A lot of decent Netflix material here.
‘Stranger Things 3’ Is Your Summer TV Fling
I attempted writing reviews for Stranger Things earlier, for whatever reason I lost interest. It’s TV comfort food. Critically beyond reproach, it’s a bonus that it does so many things well. A brief for the unconverted, it is a throwback to the child adventure era of Steven Spielberg’s 1980 Amblin-produced films (E.T., The Goonies, Gremlins,…
Netflix Dishes out Another Boilerplate Romcom With ‘Always Be My Maybe’
What does Always Be My Maybe mean? To me it sounds like a side-chick or whatever the male equivalent is of somebody being the second choice in an otherwise solid relationship. For Sasha Tran (comedian Ali Wong) and Marcus Kim (Randall Park) there’s no maybe about it. After being raised as childhood friends they awkwardly…
‘The Perfect Date’ How to Half-Ass a Film in 2019
Possibly the greatest movie of all-time?
‘Triple Frontier’ Solidifies Netflix’s Quantity Over Quality Approach
Logline: A group of former Special Operations soldiers get more than they bargained for when they reunite for a heist job of a South American crime boss. Directed by J.C. Chandor / Written by J.C. Chandor and Mark Boal / Produced by Charles Roven / a Netflix Film / an Atlas Entertainment Production Starring: Ben…
Why The Oscars Got it Wrong
I was looking forward to hearing Toni Collette for Best Actress in Hereditary. It is man or woman to be the best performance of 2018. My brother loved the movie, my sister not so much. Most people, even some who didn’t like it can look at that performance as deserving of recognition. Collette is already an Oscar nominee….
Hey Guys! Netflix’s ‘You’ is ‘Dexter’ for the Me Too and Social Media Age
I groaned when I saw it in the Netflix queue: generic title? Check. Obvious social media commentary? Check. Impossibly good looking, likely otherwise broadly drawn characters? Check. I remember what convinced to me check it out, as the trendy trailer attached with the latest slowed down moody version of a hit song did it few…
Netflix’s ‘The Innocents’: Great Trailer, Appealing Premise, Fresh-Faces, That’s It
This Netflix show would have worked perfectly as a mini-series but like The End of the F**king World needlessly teases itself out for a second season. The high concept premise takes on an under-explored element of folklore: Shape-shifters, and applies it to the themes of adolescence, a shrewd creative/ business strategy that allows Netflix to…
REVIEW: ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ Doesn’t Know What Movie It’s In
Two Studios, Two Universes, 3 Editors, 2 Movies, All in-One ‘The Cloverfield Paradox‘ is a confusing movie. It has enough clout in front and behind the camera to become something of an event, it is big enough to advertise during the Superbowl but pulls a move out of the Sega Saturn playbook and releases the…
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