How To Train Your Dragon 3 Directed by Dean DeBlois Produced by Bonnie Arnold & Brad Lewis Written by Dean DeBlois Based on How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell Starring Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, F. Murray Abraham How To Train Your Dragon has been a major franchise since the …
Chasing Rent: a review of “This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy” Adam McKay, who has left Will Farrell behind in order to write spritely comedies about economics and neo-fascist politics, has produced an eight-part series for Amazon, This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy. Despite what the title suggests, the series isn’t …
The Umbrella Academy Based on; The Umbrella Academy by: Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá Developed by: Steve Blackman, Jeremy Slater Starring: Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, Emmy Raver-Lampman, David Castañeda, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Mary J. Blige, Cameron Britton, Colm Feore, Adam Godley, John Magaro About five minutes in, I thought, oh, this is stupid, and …
Weird City Created by: Charlie Sanders & Jordan Peele Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Ed O’Neill, LeVar Burton, Rosario Dawson, Michael Cera, Mark Hamill, Laverne Cox, Sara Gilbert, Steven Yeun, Gillian Jacobs, Awkwafina, Yvette Nicole Brown, Auliʻi Cravalho Weird City is an interesting cross between Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, and the Key and Peele Show. Indeed, Jordan …
The Dragon Prince Season 2 Creators: Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond Jack DeSena as Callum Paula Burrows as Rayla Sasha Rojen as Ezran Racquel Belmonte as Claudia Jesse Inocalla as Soren Jason Simpson as Viren In its second season, the animated effort by Ehasz and Richmond, as it title suggests, spreads its wings and prepares …
Velvet Buzzsaw Directed by Dan Gilroy Produced by Jennifer Fox Written by Dan Gilroy Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, Billy Magnussen and John Malkovich First off, Velvet Buzzsaw is a slasher movie. That said, I’m going to be using all sorts of words you don’t …
Created by Natasha Lyonne, Leslye Headland, and Amy Poehler Starring Natasha Lyonne, Greta Lee, Yul Vazquez, Charlie Barnett, Elizabeth Ashley There’s an overwhelming temptation to compare this series to Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day. In both, the central character is caught on a hamster wheel in which life resets to a certain point, one identified by …
Kingdom Based on Land of the Gods by Kim Eun Hee Written by Kim Eun-hee Directed by Kim Seong-hun Starring Ju Ji-hoon, Bae Doona, Ryu Seung-ryong Country of origin South Korea You could almost believe you were watching an Akira Kurosawa film. Mystery lies in the minutiae, horror in hints, suspense in speckles. Mixed in …
Note: This review was written in late 2017 for Electric Review. John, perhaps because of unfamiliarity with the series, elected not to run this one, presumably because Electric Review is aimed at a more sophisticated readership. I happened across it while looking for something else on my backup drive, and decided it would be suitable …
Created by Bryan Fuller & Alex Kurtzman Based on Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry Starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Jason Isaacs, Wilson Cruz, & Anson Mount Season One of Star Trek Discovery was daring, inventive, and featured some of the most sophisticated and deep writing seen in any Star …