Category: REVIEWS

Like any good sitcom, “Spy x Family” is as much about the characters as it is about the shenanigans they get into. Sure, it’s fun to see Loid beat up some people or infiltrate a secret facility. What’s funnier and more wholesome is seeing this cold spy go fight a bunch of fellow spies in […]

The more I think about it, the more I’m leaning toward declaring Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” the best movie of the year. At the very least, it’s a monumental achievement; a technical marvel that turns scene after scene of guys sitting in rooms talking about physics into something incredibly exciting. It doesn’t play like a biopic; it’s […]

Like many of Disney’s animated classics, “Wish” is naturally a musical, with songs from Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice. Though Pine — who does get to play the first straight-up, unquestionable bad guy in a Disney Animation film in a while — digs into a villainous number, “Wish” otherwise struggles regarding its music. In recent […]

As the sixth season begins, Diana and Charles (Dominic West) have been divorced for a year. Diana no longer has her HRH status, and yet, she remains constantly in the public eye, followed everywhere by both hungry paparazzi and adoring fans who look at her as if she were some kind of religious icon; a […]

Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) has been cloistered away from the world at the behest of her guardian Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), whom she refers to as “God.” You see, Bella isn’t just a young woman. The doctor has reanimated the corpse of a pregnant woman who died by suicide, and the brain inside Bella’s […]

Make no mistake: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes lives and dies on the strength of Rachel Zegler's sheer force of will.

Asher and Whitney initially give off the sense of being good, generically liberal people, but their inability to see past their own stereotypes leads to massively uncomfortable sequences. Though it’s no surprise that Fielder is effective at being the butt of the joke (as in unintentionally uncomfortable moments at a local casino or while he […]

You will notice that I referred to the Vandals as a motorcycle club and not a motorcycle gang, which is a pretty crucial distinction and is at the heart of how we see that cultural shift. When Johnny decided to start the Vandals, he wasn’t looking to get into a life of crime. He saw […]

Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) works as a literary professor in Los Angeles and has managed to publish several acclaimed books over his career, though no one would call him a major commercial success. His work would fit far more aptly in the “Mythology” section of Barnes & Noble than the “African-American Studies” section, though […]

From the get-go, “Mononoke” is simply stunning. The show employs a unique art style that recreates the aesthetic of Kabuki theater and Ukiyo-e paintings. Like the phenomenal “Gankutsuou: The Count Of Monte Cristo,” the characters are painted on top of a textured background so that when they move, the textures in the characters’ clothes remain […]