Reviews

When Quentin Tarantino writes his films, he tends to obsess over the kind of minutiae that may never make it to the screen, fleshing out detailed backstories for tertiary characters,...

2004’s Team America: World Police was a scathing parody of American action movies, but also a legitimately excellent version of the genre’s tropes at work. While ridiculing the concept of...

When it first debuted in 1992, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn defined not only an entire publisher in the short term — it was the second-ever Image Comics series, and for a...

Sam Richardson is a delight. He’s engaging as Richard T. Splett on Veep, cheerfully hoping for his father’s death so he can inherit the splett1@splettnet.net email address. He’s hilarious as...

One of Chicory: A Colorful Tale’s most pivotal scenes begins with a dark room. Eyes track and trace across the otherwise black screen, the crude drawings of neon eyes lighting...

In the opening minutes of Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brothers, a who’s-who of musicians and entertainers talk about why they love Sparks, a long-running art-rock band led by brothers...

[Ed. note: Nobuhiro Watsuki, the creator of the original manga the movies discussed here are based on, was fined for possession of child pornography in 2018. He was not involved...

The first trailer for Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is dark and haphazard, ridden with nauseating visuals set to post-hardcore metal that tries to sell a perceived coolness to a...

You’ve heard this story before. Though the details may be different, the thrust of the story is the same. When the world goes to shit, there’s only one person who...

Many of the films or TV shows made over the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic have addressed the experience of lockdown, quarantine, and self-isolation to varying degrees of success....