The ‘Frozen 2’ teaser released in February showed Elsa exerting her icy powers and ascending the waves of the ocean, only to get completely catapulted and fall into the watery depths. You can breathe a sigh of relief, though – in the official trailer released this morning, the determined princess rises to the surface. Set […]
Film And Drama Reviews
New chapter for ‘Elder Scrolls Online’
Bethesda’s ‘Elder Scrolls’ universe is a fascinating place with nearly unfathomable depth, vast amounts of lore and some great characters. The single-player games in the series have been huge hits, particularly ‘Elder Scrolls IV – Oblivion’ and ‘Elder Scrolls V – Skyrim’ and the online version – ‘The Elder Scrolls Online’ captures much of the […]
‘The Dead Don’t Die’ — Jim Jarmusch’s zombie film is an apocalyptic afterthought
Director and screenwriter Jim Jarmusch’s comic deadpan seems ideally suited to the zombie genre. So who better than this indie hipster, who has been an avatar of cool from ‘Stranger Than Paradise’ to Paterson, to take a stroll with the walking dead? Having tackled vampires in high style with 2013’s ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’, the […]
‘Pose’ Season 2 — a revolutionary world where hope prevails
A very odd thing kept happening to me as I watched the first season of ‘Pose’, FX’s drama about New York’s drag ball scene in the 1980s and ’90s. Again and again, the part of my brain trained to understand how modern serialised drama narratives function would predict the worst possible outcome in each scenario […]
‘Rolling Thunder Revue’ is partially a concert film
In the summer of 1975, in the middle of recording his album ‘Desire,’ singer and songwriter Bob Dylan decided that he wanted to go on tour again, but that he also wanted a break. A break from the crowds, from the press scrutiny, maybe even from his own stardom. So in the fall of that […]
‘Chernobyl’ stellar finale makes a case for the show as science fiction
The episode of the week for June 2-8, 2019 is “Vichnaya Pamyat,” the fifth and final episode of the HBO miniseries ‘Chernobyl’. The most chilling scene in the final episode of Chernobyl involves a man speaking calmly in a courtroom as he tosses aside a handful of blue placards, one by one, in favour of […]
‘The Perfection’ — Allison Williams, Logan Browning’s performances elevate this horror-thriller
Richard Shepard’s ‘The Perfection’ is a highly unusual film that keeps moving across the borders of multiple genres. This is a film that is part horror, part thriller, part mystery and part revenge movie, and yet, it never seems as if the film is doing justice to any of the themes it dabbles with. The […]
‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2 — star power and shared secrets sustain this sequel
In this TV spring of “Are we sure a second season’s a good idea?”, Big Little Lies may be the most dubious entry on paper. Barry came back with questions about whether it could balance its tone (which it didn’t always do well) and Killing Eve with questions about whether it could sustain its story […]
‘Friends worked because the characters didn’t have their nose stuffed into a cell phone’
It’s been 15 years since ‘Friends’ ended and fans are ready to get the gang back together. While the cast has been bombarded with reunion questions for years, the stars have yet to give a firm answer. However, comedian and television host Ellen DeGeneres is not giving up. The talk-show host asked actress and producer […]
‘The Son’ Season 2 Episode 6 takes up legal woes and societal norms
In ‘The Son’, Season 2, Episode 6, ‘The Blue Light’, flirts with surrealism as legal woes and societal norms take their toll on the usually steadfast First Son of Texas. Eli McCullough shows the first cracks in the armour which has protected him his whole life. His many lives, if you count how many times […]