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 …
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 …
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia Genre; Adventure, Action, Comedy-drama, Fantasy Created by; Guillermo del Toro Based on; Trollhunters by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus Written by; Guillermo del Toro, Marc Guggenheim, Kevin Hageman, Dan Hageman, Aaron Waltke, Chad Quandt, A.C. Bradley Voices of: Anton Yelchin, Kelsey Grammer, Charlie Saxton, Lexi Medrano, Jonathan Hyde, Fred Tatasciore, …
Do You Trust This Computer? Directed by Chris Paine Produced by Tiffany Asakawa & Jessie Deeter Written by Mark Monroe Production company: Papercut Films The instant you saw the title of this piece, I’ll bet you paused, at least for an instant, and looked at your screen as a part of a computer, and not …
Happy Yaldā Night! Solstice 2018 December 20th, 2018 Well, I hoped he would be in prison by now, too. But the walls are closing in, and at this point, it’s a matter of “when,” and for how long, and how many others will be in adjacent cells. He’s going down. See? You feel hopeful already, …
The Man from Earth: Holocene (2018) Directed by Richard Schenkman Produced by Emerson Bixby Written by Emerosn Bixby Starring David Lee Smith as John Oldman/John Young William Katt as Dr. Art Jenkins Vanessa Williams as Carolyn Michael Dorn as Dr. Gil Parker Sterling Knight as Philip Brittany Curran as Tara Carlos Knight as Liko Akemi …
When I got my copy of La Belle Sauvage, I misread it as “La Belle Sausage.” The sad thing is the French word for sausage is saucisse. The words “La Belle” should have tipped me off that the title wasn’t in English. I’m from Canada. I’ve studied these things. I even lived right next door …