Review: Power

Drug kingpins are a dime a dozen in our culture. We’ve seen the rise to power, the fall from grace and every storyline. Therefore, if you are a show like Power, premiering on Starz today, you had better find some interesting elements and new ways to tread old stories. Luckily for the powers that be

June’s It’s Still Too Early Oscar Predictions

The Oscar machine can’t stop, won’t stop. I have tried to fend it off but given that Cannes ended last month and I last updated my Oscar predictions in April, it was time to illuminate you all with some new Oscar predictions and analysis. So here you go. I ranked my Oscar predictions this time

My (Long Delayed) Thoughts on True Detective

Yes this is a True Detective post eons after the show was in the main cultural conversation but this is my blog and I can do what I want! (Also, May 31st marked the official end of the 2013-2014 TV season) Now you maybe be wondering why exactly I decided to note down my thoughts

Penny Dreadful Recap: Episode 1.04 “Demimonde”

We start off the episode with an orgy party at Dorian Gray’s (Reeve Carney) home, he’s looking at everyone around him and their sexual acts. After the party has ended he’s walking around his home and stops at a painting and opens in and walks inside a passageway, there is a huge painting covered up

Game of Thrones Recap 4.08 “The Mountain and the Viper”

I just. Like…Game of Thrones is just….let’s just get into the recap.

After a ridiculously stressful and particularly revealing “Previously On” the episode turned out to be pretty good. But I have to start with one thing in particular…

Film Review: Maleficent

There are few villains more revered in film lore than Maleficent. She is, in my estimation, the greatest of the early Disney villains and certainly top 5 villains in their entire history. It is with that weight and history that we find ourselves begin presented with Maleficent, another in the long line of fairytale revisions.

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