Tag: Crime
REVIEW: The Penguin – Episode 3, “Bliss”
“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 MoreShared Madness: What Joker: Folie à Deux Means to Me
Joker: Folie à Deux has only been out one weekend, but it’s effectively come and gone. Well, at the box office, anyway; with a disappointing opening, a huge $200 million budget (which I can only assume mostly went to the inflated paychecks Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix likely demanded after�...
Read MoreREVIEW: Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
Joker: 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....
Read MoreREVIEW: Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024)
I really liked Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story when it aired on Netflix in 2022. It was tense, well-acted, and shocking. I’ve heard of the Menendez brothers before, and at my job, we listened to a podcast about them, so I was instantly sold on season 2, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez St...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Penguin – Episode 2, “Inside Man”
With its second episode, “Inside Man,” The Penguin hits its stride, mounting the tension as the subterfuge within the Falcone family begins. Mercifully, Colin Farrell tones down his caricaturish performance, mostly playing Oz straight, and the result is a much more immersive crime story. That b...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Penguin – Episode 1, “After Hours”
The Penguin, the HBO miniseries extension of Matt Reeves’ The Batman, is garnering a similar reaction to the film that spawned it. It’s getting near-universal acclaim, as “grounded” superhero fare always does, but is it really that good? Based on the premiere episode, “After Hours,” I do...
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