Film & TV, Review, Television

Recap: Invincible (S2, Ep3) — Mark Attempts to Balance His Lives in Dark, Shocking Episode

We all knew it was coming eventually: for three episodes, Earth’s former super-defender Nolan Grayson (J.K. Simmons) has been looming over the planet—and his friends and family—without so much as […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Dumb Money Chronicles a Recent Moment in Pop Culture, Financial History in Accessible, Hilarious Ways

It took me a few minutes to figure out what makes director Craig Gillespie’s (I, Tonya; Lars and the Real Girl) latest work, Dumb Money, different from the slew of […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: The Super Mario Bros. Movie Features All the Characters, Set Pieces of the Storied Game, Just None of the Actual Story

And I thought I was a little bit lost during the recent Dungeons & Dragons movie. I don’t live under a rock, so I know a little something about the […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Steven Spielberg Channels His Own Childhood into Mid-Century Family Drama The Fabelmans

One would assume that a Steven Spielberg film that is a thinly veiled biography of a young Steven Spielberg would feel more personal, and certainly elements of The Fabelmans do. […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Middle School Mayhem—and Hormones—in an Entertaining Good Boys

Good Boys

Charm will always win out over crass, so imagine combining these two noble traits into one genuinely heartfelt, R-rated comedy about three sixth graders who set out on an epic […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV

Review: Long Shot Isn’t Afraid to Be Both Silly and Serious

Imagine a comedy set in the world where a woman becoming president isn’t the butt of most of the jokes—how refreshing. In fact, in the new film Long Shot, the […]

Steve Prokopy /
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Review: The Sting of Arizona Lands Between the Laughs

Arizona

Although the horror-comedy Arizona is the first feature from Jonathan Watson, he has actually spent many years working second unit on films and TV series created by the likes of […]

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