M Categories Interviews Movies Podcasts Right on Cue January 25, 2019 More of a Comment, Really….: Jonas Akerlund and Mads Mikkelsen (POLAR); Director Jason Polevoi (F*** YOUR HAIR) For the latest interview podcast, Clint talks to the filmmakers behind Netflix’s Polar, and the director of a local Chicago doc about a small local..
B Categories TV January 25, 2019 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Recap: “The Tattler” Offers Origins and Exits Brooklyn Nine-Nine says goodbye to Gina Linetti in a thoroughly solid sendoff for Chelsea Peretti, even if the B-plots suffer a bit.
S Categories Features January 25, 2019 Serenity and the Strangeness of Post-Oscar Acting Careers In the wake of Serenity's balls-out weirdness, we look at how it fits into the oeuvre of "oddball post-Oscar films" for McConaughey and Hathaway.
T Categories TV January 24, 2019 The Orville Review: “All the World is Birthday Cake” Sees the Crew Battling Astrology-Based Prejudice The Orville crew butt heads with a world that shuns people based on their Zodiac sign, in a premise straight out of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
P Categories Movies January 24, 2019 Polar Review: An Empty Exercise in 90s-era Edge Ugly, juvenile, and drop-dead boring, Netflix's comic book adaptation might be the running for worst of the year.
I Categories Movies January 21, 2019 IO Review: Netflix Blandly Limps Through the Apocalypse Netflix's latest sci-fi drama is as lifeless as the polluted future Earth of its setting.
F Categories Movies January 21, 2019 Fyre Review: Netflix Looks Behind the Schaudenfreude Chris Smith looks at the Fyre Festival's downfall from the eyes of those who worked on it.
B Categories Movies January 19, 2019 Brexit Review: The Big (Ben) Short HBO's latest is a didactic lecture of a Brexit primer whose handsome performances hide a smug political nihilism.
B Categories TV January 18, 2019 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Recap: “Hitchcock & Scully” Offers 80s-Inspired Chuckles "Hitchcock & Scully" offers some intermittent laughs as the origin story of Brooklyn Nine-Nine's most colorful characters, but isn't one of its finest eps.
T Categories TV January 18, 2019 TV Review: The Orville Pulls a Discovery with “Nothing Left on Earth Excepting Fishes” The Orville cribs a bit from Star Trek Discovery in an Ed-heavy episode featuring an enemy love interest in disguise.
