Disclaimer: This review may contain spoilers. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is an intensely important prequel to the Hunger Games series, dating back to the first film in 2012. “A little hope is effective,” says Donald Sutherland’s character,...
About forty minutes into the fourth — and final — episode of the new Netflix documentary, Beckham, we find soccer superstar David Beckham at a welcome press conference in Los Angeles, addressing the media after his leaving the Spanish club Real Madrid and formally...
Love Is Blind casts aside morals for more entertaining storylines. If you think sexual assault, covering up lawsuits, and having an alcohol-pushing producer is okay, then this new season of Love Is Blind still probably isn’t for you, because the outcome was...
Finally, a coherent storyline! As someone who’s followed the Five Nights at Freddy’s (FNAF) franchise since its beginning, I’m delighted to report that the FNAF movie has a coherent plot. FNAF’s early popularity stemmed, in part, from its mysteries, which united a...
1. Graphic novel: Kelly Sue Deconnick and Emma Rios, Pretty Deadly (vol. 1-3) First published as a collected volume in 2014, Pretty Deadly is a genre-busting narrative hellbent on travelling through time via some of the most intricate art I’ve personally seen in a...
Ah, Netflix. Where would we be without it? The streaming service has been a balm to people everywhere during the long days of self-isolation, but for many, those To-Watch lists are running mighty thin. If, like me, you don’t want to rewatch your favourite...
When I first heard there was going to be a film adaptation for Sonic the Hedgehog, a video game series long past its prime, I questioned the choice. Have we learned nothing from the checkered past of video game adaptations? From the catastrophic misfire that was...
There were zero female directors nominated at the 2020 Oscars. But it’s needless to say that women have been long underrepresented in the film and television industry — directors and actors alike. According to the Center for the Study of Women in Television...
Everything Sucks! is designed to remind everyone of their time in high school and how awful everything about it was. The creators, Ben York Jones and Michael Mohan, have produced a relatable and quirky rendition of the high school coming-of-age story set in the...
There are many ways to measure the success of a show: professional accolades, rave reviews, the continuing achievements of cast and crew alike. While six-time Tony award-winning Dear Evan Hansen can humbly brag about all of these categories, I measured the musical...
Phantom Thread is a romantic drama, directed and written by Paul Thomas Anderson and released in 2017. Although two years old now, it’s a film that continues to be slightly perplexing. As a romantic drama, it’s part of a genre that tends to repeat itself. That’s...
“Look around. Everyone is either thinking about shagging, about to shag, or actually shagging.” Netflix used the descriptors “raunchy” and “heartfelt” to describe its new, British show Sex Education. And somehow, it manages to be both — sometimes, all at...