Vice – Humble Servant to Power
John Nance Garner (one of FDR?s Vice Presidents) observed that the Vice Presidency ?is not worth a bucket of warm spit.? But that was different when Dick Cheney became Vice President.
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Seal Team: Bringing Your Work Home
It didn’t take long for David Boreanaz to land a new role after?Bones?(and before it, the?Buffy/Angel series) ran out of steam. That’s good news for his new CBS show,?Seal Team, given that the previous outings ran for more than seven years each. Here, he’s leader of Bravo Team, a subcategory of?United States Naval Special Warfare…
Star Trek Discovery – Season One: The Original?
Creator Bryan Fuller has created?Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, Hannibal, American Gods, and worked on Star Trek: Voyager and Deep Space Nine, while his co-creator Alex Kurtzman has the J.J. Abrams’?Star Trek?remakes among his diverse action-packed cinematic resume. So, their collaboration made perfect sense for CBS All-Access’ first unique series,?Star Trek: Discovery, the prequel…
Bad Times at the El Royale
A the El Royale, a once high-class hotel on the border of California and Nevada, several strangers converge in 1969. The audience knows that ten years prior, a deceased man hid a treasure of some sort within the floorboards of one of the hotel’s rooms, but there is no early indication about what is in…
Halloween (2018): Michael is Back
Director David Gordon Green and his collaborator Danny McBride are not who you’d expect to be behind the sequel of John Carpenter’s?1978 slasher film?Halloween?thirty years later. But Jamie Lee Curtis is back as ex-babysitter Laurie Strode, who has no peace of mind at having seen Michael Meyers (James Jude Courtney) locked away in a mental…
Styx – The Ethics of Life and Death
This is a new telling of the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25ff.). Jesus spoke that parable in answer to the question ?Who is my neighbor (who the Law says I must love)??
The Magical Mystery of Musigny: Mysterious Community
Winner of the award for Best Story from the Los Angeles Animation Film Festival, The Magical Mystery of Musigny?is a short film that tells the story of John, a man whose life has been irrevocably altered by sipping a glass of Musigny wine. However, because his experience is so powerful, he struggles to communicate its…
Cold War – Smoldering Sorrow
?Love?s love and that?s that.? A pair of star-crossed lovers are the focus of Pawel Pawlikowski?s Cold War, Poland?s entry for Best Foreign Language Film consideration. Set in the years following the Second World War, it moves back and forth between the Communist and Democratic worlds, but it is not the geopolitical situation that is…
Mars S2E6: Christmas on Mars?
How would you raise a child on another planet with completely different holiday traditions from Earth? It’s an interesting question.
Stan & Ollie – True Friendship
Laurel and Hardy was one of the greatest comedy duos of all time. ?They bumbled their way into the hearts of audiences that have spanned generations.?Stan & Ollie, from director Jon S. Baird, is both an homage to brilliance of their comedy, and an examination of what friendship means.