I really, really, really wanted to love Megalopolis. I’ve written a couple of times about how disgusted I was with the entertainment media’s attempts to ruin the movie and director Francis Ford Coppola, including manufacturing sexual abuse allegations denied even by the supposed victim. This wa...
Read MoreI love Saturday Night for many reasons, but one is that it’s the return of the Jason Reitman I missed while he was making Li’l Ghostbusters movies. This is the guy who made a name for himself independent of his legendary father, once again choosing a subject for which he has real passion, one w...
Read MoreIf “Darkest Hour/Wake thy Power” makes anything clear, it’s that Agatha All Along didn’t have to be this bad. There are some decent concepts in this show, the cast is made up of good actresses, and the setting has tons of potential. But they’re all wasted; the concepts are never explored ...
Read More“Bliss” slows things down just a bit so that The Penguin can focus on the characters, and that’s good because one character desperately needed this episode. “Bliss” is primarily about Victor, Oz’s sidekick who, until now, was more or less there to be a sounding board for the lead. This...
Read More**DISCLAIMER: CONTAINS SPOILERS** The final episode of season 2 begins with Prince Durin striding down a tunnel to discover many dwarf bodies strewn about. Disa, alive, is amongst them and proclaims that the “ring has him, mind and soul.” MUST WE ALWAYS BE REMINDED THAT THE DWARVEN RINGS ARE NOT...
Read MoreJoker: Folie à Deux is a lot of things – a psychological drama, a legal thriller, a musical, a love story, an extension of its predecessor’s indictment of society, a comic book movie – but above all, it’s endlessly fascinating, and like Joker, it keeps you wondering what will happen next....
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