Matt Groening?s animated work sometimes takes time to find its legs. Although they have continued to connect with audiences, both?Futurama?and?The Simpsons?took a couple of seasons to find their voice. The same is true with Netflix?s?Disenchantment, the most recent addition to Groening?s growing legacy. Despite the fact that the series took a while to figure out…
Murder can be a funny thing. Produced by Will Arnett, Murderville introduces the world to Terry Seattle (Arnett), a hard-nosed homicide detective who is struggling to get his personal life together. However, even though his marriage is crumbling, he?s still the man you want on the job but he can?t do it alone. In each episode of…
In Jane Campion’s THE POWER OF THE DOG, Benedict Cumberbatch plays gruff cowboy, Phil Burbank. After his brother returns with a new wife and son, Phil does his best to put on a show of toxic masculinity and dominance, even as his conflicted soul suffers underneath. This week, Seeing & Believing‘s Kevin McLenithan and author…
Nostalgia can only last for so long? unless you can make it into something different. Originally airing on YouTube Red and eventually making the jump to Netflix, Cobra Kai caught everyone by surprise. The re-imagined and reinvented sequel series to the classic Karate Kid movies offered a refreshing new direction for characters long forgotten by pop culture while unabashedly…
Why do people (now a few thousand) climb Mt. Everest? George Mallory (who may or may not have been the first to reach the summit) famously answered the question by saying, ?Because it?s there.? But there has to be more to it than that. Mountaineering is a dangerous, often lethal, activity. In The Summit of…
Time is always ticking away? but how we make use of it determines our impact on the world. Set in 1990,?tick, tick? BOOM!?tells the story of Broadway legend Jonathan Larson (Andrew Garfield). Well before he created?Rent, Larson was doing his best to stay afloat financially by waiting tables at the Moondance Diner while he works…
?Why am I the one who always has to prove them wrong??? This question hovers ominously over Colin Kaepernick?s bold and beautiful biographical Netflix limited series, Colin in Black and White. Touching on Kaepernick?s journey as an adopted child, Black and White is ultimately about much more than the story of a young athlete. With Kaepernick himself as…
Everyone wants to catch the guilty but not everyone recognizes that same guilt within themselves. Directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), The Guilty takes place during the raging wildfires of Los Angeles. As his nightshift at the 911 desk winds down, frustrated and exhausted police officer Joe Bayler (Jake Gyllenhaal) gets a perilous phone call from a…
I?m a child of the 80?s. I grew up with Rainbow Brite and She-Ra and, of course, My Little Pony. I also really enjoy kids? movies in general, so I consider myself a pretty solid authority on the subject. So, when I say My Little Pony: The Next Generation (now available on Netflix) is top-notch,…
?As much love as you put in to them, they?re going to give that back to you.? My Heroes Were Cowboys, a short documentary (running time: 22 minutes) from Tyler Greco, is the story of what we have come to think of as a horse whisperer. He is a man who has the ability to…
