Having earned twenty-one Emmy nominations for its second season, Westworld returned to the world of the hosts and the humans with a passion, an unholy Maeve and Dolores fury. Driven by these electronic hosts who have now found their consciousness, the show propels them forward on a path of self-discovery that challenges the audience’s understanding of justice… [Read More]
The Nun: Fighting an Old Evil
The Nun is the fifth film in The Conjuring series, and a prequel to the action in James Wan’s first films. Here, a grizzled old priest and a young novitiate nun travel to Cârța Monastery in Romania in the middle of the twentieth century under Corin Hardy’s direction. After the success of his indie horror film The Hallow, Hardy was… [Read More]
Mission Impossible – Fallout: The World Needs Ethan Hunt
The sixth installment of the Mission Impossible films, and the second directed and written by Christopher McQuarrie (Rogue Nation), arrived this weekend with a fat 98% Rotten Tomatoes ratings, the Justice League-impacting Henry Cavill mustache, and the promise of more death-defying stunts by the ageless Tom Cruise. But haven’t we seen it all, already? Blame Lorne Balfe’s score,… [Read More]
Blindspotting: Walk in His Shoes
We tend to judge what we don’t know, as complicated as another culture or as simple as the neighbor across the street who we don’t know. But in the film Blindspotting, we have a startling look into the world of two lifelong friends, one black and one white, who have much to teach us about… [Read More]
Crazy Rich Asians: A Cinderella Story
In Crazy Rich Asians, the Warner Bros.’ film based on Kevin Kwan’s bestselling book, Constance Wu plays Rachel, a highly intelligent economics professor at New York University who accompanies her boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), to his friend’s high society wedding in Singapore. While they’re there, Rachel discovers that Nick’s family is actually a huge financial… [Read More]
Mile 22 – Who Will You Believe?
James Silva (Mark Wahlberg) has seen it all as a U.S. Marine and a member of a black ops team known as Overwatch. As the film opens, the team takes down a Russian safehouse stateside and executes the inhabitants. Fastforwarding a year and a half later, the team ends up grinding at desk jobs until… [Read More]
Throne of Atlantis – Commemorative Edition: One Rises from the Sea
Based on Geoff Johns’ Aquaman run in The New 52, DC’s Throne of Atlantis is a feature-length animated film that finds the Justice League facing off against threats from the deep that they have never seen before, only to be joined by the heir of the Earth and the Sea, Aquaman! Now, three years since it debuted, the film… [Read More]
Elementary – The Sixth Season: That Time Sherlock Was Concussed
In the sixth season of CBS’ hit show about the famed British detective, Elementary takes the audience on a wild ride inside and outside of Sherlock Holmes’ (Jonny Lee Miller) brain. It’s a bumpy ride this season because Holmes is suffering from post-concussion symptoms, and his life with Watson (Lucy Liu) is complicated. Over six discs and… [Read More]
Scorpion – The Complete Series: The Nerds are Here!
Scorpion, for its four-season run on CBS, showed what it would be like if the nerds and geeks of The Big Bang Theory put their minds to work to save the world from unique, dangerous situations… over and over and over again. While the show is based on the life of genius Walter O’Brien (played here by… [Read More]
Pixar Short Films Collection 3 – Beautiful, Small Moments
In the third collection of PIXAR’s short films, following the 2007 and 2012 editions, a delightful menagerie of thirteen short films is available for audiences to watch at their leisure. Some of them are stellar packages of morals and vision; others are more for simple entertainment. Here are my five favorites: “Piper” may be my… [Read More]
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