Category Archives: Film

1
Oct

Streaming Picks: October 2018

FILMS Top Picks Mulholland Dr. – Prime and Hulu 10/1 22 July – Netflix 10/10 You Were Never Really Here – Prime 10/26 If it took you several tries to get through David Lynch’s failed pilot/fever dream, you’re not alone. … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 22 july, accidentally in love, adam sandler, alguien te mira, amazon, apostle, ask the doctor, bad samaritan, barbelle, beacon point, been so long, bees make honey, best worst weekend ever, beta test, big mouth, birth stories, birthday girl, black water, bleeding steel, bodyguard, boss baby, capture, castlevania, charlotte, chilling adventures of sabrina, christine mcconnell, cocaine godmother, creeped out, daddy's home 2, dancing queen, daredevil, degenerates, derren brown, dheepan, distrito salvaje, dot, dovlatov, el clon, el fantasma de elena, elite, empire games, errementari, extrano enemigo, fate extra, feminists, fightworld, game changers, girl from nowhere, gnome alone, go against the flow, goldie and bear, good enough, gospel according to andre, gotham, great news, growing pains, gun city, happily never after, hasan minhaj, haunted, haunting of hill house, hip hop evolution, how to get girls, hulu, illang, into the dark, it ain't pretty, jefe, joe rogan, kindergarten teacher, la diosa coronada, larva island, life of significant soil, light as a feather, little things, lore, lowlife, making a murderer, malevolent, man in the high castle, meateater, miles from tomorrowland, miracle season, mo amer, mr. robot, mulholland drive, my little pony, netflix, never goin back, night comes for us, night of the living deb, octonauts, pacto de sangue, paradox, prayer before dawn, private life, pushing daisies, pyewacket, quest of alaine ducasse, racer and the jailbird, ravenswood, rbg, remastered, rise of phoenixes, robozuna, romanoffs, ron white, salt fat acid heat, saving banksy, schitt's creek, scorned, september morning, seven deadly sins, shirkers, silent witness, slice, sofia the first, spaced, strangers, super monsters, tarzan and jane, terrace house, terrorism close calls, thick of it, truth or dare, tumble leaf, v, wanderlust, westwood, what we become, yellow birds, yg future office strategy, you were never really here | Comments Off

11
Sep

Things I Wrote: Summer 2018

I continue to be terrible about consistently posting about my published work. Here’s what I wrote this summer. REVIEWS Adrift (College Movie Review) Ocean’s 8 (College Movie Review) Tag (College Movie Review) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (College Movie Review) Sicario: … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Reviews | Tagged adrift, ant-man, equalizer, jurassic world, magic music, meg, mission impossible, ocean's 8, sicario, skyscraper, sorry to bother you, tag, whitney | Comments Off

4
Sep

Streaming Picks: September 2018

FILMS Top Picks Adaptation – Hulu 9/1 Chinatown – Prime 9/1 Hold the Dark – Netflix 9/28 The first two are great films that got nominated for quite a few Oscars in their day. The former contains the best performance Nicolas … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 3rd eye, adaptation, afterlife, alien invasion, amazon, american horror story, american vandal, asylum, atypical, bb king, beirut, black panther, blacklist, bleach, blue rose, boca juniors confidential, Bodysnatch, bojack horseman, boom for real, broker's man, cable girls, call the midwife, car masters, chef's table, chinatown, city of joy, crescent, Daniel sloss, Daphne and Velma, dl hughley, dragon pilot, dragon prince, el marginal, escape plan 2, field of blood, first, first and last, flower, forest of piano, forever, future world, gemini, golden, good behavior, good cop, grace jones, Hannah, high fantasy, higher power, hilda, hold the dark, hot summer nights, housemaid, hulu, hurricane heist, I love you America, ingobernable, inside the freemasons, iron fist, jack whitehall, jigsaw, Kevin bishop, king lear, la catedral del mar, land of steady habits, lessons from a school shooting, life, London Irish, lost hope, lost song, love after love, made in Mexico, maniac, miracle season, monkey twins, monochrome, most assassinated woman in the world, mr sunshine, my little pony, nappily ever after, natural vice, netflix, next gen, norm macdonald, norsemen, on chesil beach, on my skin, once upon a time, palace, parents, Pete the cat, Pistorius, plonger, prime, quantico, Quincy, reboot, rocket's island, sacrifice, sam's game, Sierra burgess is a loser, sisters, six dreams, skylanders academy, strangers, stretch armstrong, stronger, Suburbicon, super monsters super party, Taiwanese tale of two cities, Texas rising, this is home, trust, two catalonias, van helsing, walking dead, wentworth, westside, wild at heart, wishenpoof, women and sometimes men, world's most extraordinary homes, wrinkle in time | Comments Off

15
Aug

Too Early for This: Oscar Picks – 15 Aug 2018

Normally, I don’t do intros for these, but on August 8, the Academy announced they’re making some changes to shorten the length of the broadcast. Unfortunately, that shortchanges the brief time in the spotlight for the craftspeople who really make … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Film, Oscars, Previews | Tagged at eternity's gate, backseat, beautiful boy, black klansman, can you ever forgive me, don't worry he won't get far on foot, favourite, first man, front runner, grinch, if beale street could talk, incredibles 2, into the spider-verse, isle of dogs, mary queen of scots, on the basis of sex, ralph breaks the internet, roma, sorry to bother you, spiderman, widows | Comments Off

1
Aug

Streaming Picks: August 2018

FILMS Top Picks The Informant! – Netflix 8/1 mother! – Amazon and Hulu 8/26 This exclamation point-heavy selection includes two of the most underrated movies of the last decade. The former includes Matt Damon’s best performance (you heard me) as … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 100, afflicted, agatha christie, all about the washingtons, all at once, ask the storybots, bert kreischer, borg vs mcenroe, brij mohan amar rahe, cage fighter, china hustle, cocaine coast, comedy lineup, crime and punishment, dating my mother, deadwind, demetri martin, desolation, dinotrux, disenchantment, disobedience, en otra piel, escape of prisoner 614, eva la trailera, flavors of youth, follow this, ghoul, good place, great news, gringo, guernsey literary and potato peel pie society, hostiles, i am a killer, informant, innocents, insatiable, inside the criminal mind, investigator, ismael's ghost, jack ryan, la casa de las flores, laws of thermodynamics, like father, marching orders, marrowbone, me too, million pound menu, minding the gap, monkey king, mother, motive, mr sunshine, on children, originals, ozark, package, paradise pd, pasion prohibida, perdida, perfect bid, perro amor, pinky malinky, ponysitters club, powerpuff girls, rosa diamante, sharp edges, spirit, splash and bubbles, stan against evil, stay here, stinky and dirty, switched, terminal, tim and eric, to all the boys i've loved before, to the moon and back, trolls, ultimate beastmaster, ultraviolet, undercover law, voltron, woman walks ahead, wraith, young and hungry, zion | Comments Off

1
Jul

Streaming Picks: July 2018

FILMS Top Picks The Brothers Bloom – Amazon and Hulu 7/1 Go – Hulu 7/1 Her – Netflix 7/29 You might have heard Rian Johnson’s name in the last six months. As the director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 20 weeks, along with the gods, amazing interiors, americans, anne with an e, ballet now, before we vanish, better things, black cop, bleeding edge, blue bloods, bonusfamiljen, borg vs mcenroe, brothers bloom, burn notice, captain underpants, castle rock, casual, closer, closing gambit, comedians in cars getting coffee, comedy lineup, cover versions, cupcake and dino, damages, dark tourist, deep undercover, drag lords, duck duck goose, el chapo, extinction, father of the year, first team, forgiven, fosters, free rein, glass castle, go, good witch, hawaii five-o, heart of nuba, her, home, how it ends, how to talk to girls at parties, iliza shlesinger, inconvenient sequel, inside the world's toughest prisons, jim jefferies, jimmy, joel mchale, last chance u, last ship, le ride, leaning into the wind, legacy of a whitetail deer hunter, librarians, lost wife of robert durst, luna petunia, madam secretary, ncis, nypd blue, orange is the new black, oscar pistorius, queens of comedy, rica famosa latina, roman empire, sacred games, samantha, shameless, sharp edges, sinner, skin of the wolf, sofia the first, somebody feed phil, status update, sugar rush, terrace house, tumble leaf, unreal, very secret service, wanderland, warning, welcome to the family, white fang, winter out west, worst witch, you're the worst, zombie spring breakers | Comments Off

1
Jun

Things I Wrote: April and May 2018

Thinking it will be easier if I make this a bi-monthly post. Maybe then I’ll remember. Here are my published works for the last two months. REVIEWS (for College Movie Review) Final Portrait Rampage Super Troopers 2 I Feel Pretty … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Reviews | Tagged blindspotting, breaking in, final portrait, hearts beat loud, i feel pretty, life of the party, rampage, super troopers, won't you be my neighbor, you were never really here | Comments Off

1
Jun

Streaming Picks: June 2018

FILMS Top Picks The Age of Innocence – Amazon 6/1 Blue Like Jazz – Amazon and Hulu 6/1 Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Netflix 6/26 Three for you this month, one on each of the major services. The first … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 10 by 10, age of innocence, agents of shield, alex strangelove, ali's wedding, all or nothing, allure, babylon 5, blue like jazz, boots on the ground, brain on fire, braven, busted, churchill's secret agents, club de cuervos, cooking on high, derren brown, eurotrump, fate extra, gintama, glow, goliath, grey's anatomy, hannah gadsby, harvey street kids, heavy rescue, hollow, hotel transylvania, house october built, huntsville, hyori's bed and breakfast, if you give a mouse a cookie, la foret, lady bird, lost in oz, luke cage, lust stories, maktub, marcella, marlon, max, michelle wolf, nailed it, night shift, nostalgia, november 13, other guy, paquita salas, portlandia, precious, ranch, recovery boys, rescue me, rick and morty, secret city, sense8, set it up, staircase, star wars, suits, sunday's illness, tau, thor, to each her own, transformers, treehouse detectives, true, us and them, very english scandal, voltron, w kamau bell, waltons, we blew it, where the skin lies, wonder wheel, wynonna earp | Comments Off

1
May

Streaming Picks: May 2018

FILMS Top Picks Thief – Hulu and Amazon 5/1 Coco – Netflix 5/29 (Academy Award winner) I, Tonya – Hulu 5/31 (Academy Award winner) Thief is Michael Mann’s searing debut, featuring one of the all-time great villain performances, and impressive … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews, Television | Tagged 12 monkeys, ali wong, all night, american folk, anon, baywatch, beatriz at dinner, bill nye saves the world, blame, bombshell, break, busted, cargo, carol burnett, catching feelings, claws, coco, curvature, dear white people, diablo guardian, dino dana, drunk history, end game, evil genius, explained, faces places, fauda, forgive us our debts, frank serpico, girlfriends guide to divorce, goat, half magic, hari kondabolu, hollywood game night, holy air, how to be a latin lover, howards end, i tonya, ibiza, in the fade, inspector gadget, jane, john mulaney, just getting started, king of the apes, kissing booth, knights of the damned, kong, last flag flying, mad to be normal, manhunt, martin short, michelle wolf, mob psycho 100, mobile suit gundam, my next guest needs no introduction, neat, orphan black, picnic at hanging rock, please stand by, psychopaths, queens of comedy, rain, rocky and bullwinkle, sara's notebook, saturday church, scandal, señora acero, shooter, simon, small town crime, somtimes, spirit, star vs the forces of evil, steve martin, strain, strange ones, take every wave, terrace house, thief, thirst street, tig notaro, tonight she comes, toys that made us, trollhunters, unbreakable kimmy schmidt, wedding plan, who was show, you are wanted, yu-gi-oh | Comments Off

23
Apr

The Optimist’s Summer Movie Preview 2018

Marvel has thrown down the (Infinity) gauntlet, by moving their big tentpole to kick off the summer movie season back to the end of April. It traditionally started around Memorial Day, and moved up to the first weekend of May … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Previews | Tagged ant-man, avengers, deadpool, hereditary, incredibles, mission impossible, ocean's 8, sicario, solo, tully | Comments Off