‘State and Main’ (2000) too trifling for my taste
Mamet Monday (Movie review): This widely loved Hollywood satire is too trifling for my taste.
‘State and Main’ (2000) too trifling for my taste
‘He’s Out There’ is a decently scary lake-cabin stalker thriller, but not a unique one (Movie review)
Similar to the two “Strangers” films, “He’s Out There” (2018, now on Netflix) strips the horror genre down to basics and tells a scary story of people in random peril at a remote cabin. It […]
‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Solitary Man’ (2003) (Book review)
As he did with his love letter to hardboiled fiction, “Hollywood Noir,” Jeff Mariotte lets his passion for bloodless British mysteries show in “Solitary Man” (December 2003) – but in a different way. He invents […]
‘Elizabethtown’ (2005) more than a ‘Garden State’ ripoff
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Cameron Crowe’s film is a great romance story with fun-to-discover mythological parables.
‘Buffy’ flashback: Season 9, Issues 11-20 (2012-13) (Comic book reviews)
In this next batch of 10 issues, Season 9 becomes slightly less Buffy-centric, somewhat to its detriment, but Andrew Chambliss continues to be a sharp writer and I trust he knows where the wider narrative […]
‘Spanish Prisoner’ (1997) a gripping long-con puzzle
Mamet Monday (Movie review): Campbell Scott stars as a man caught in a gripping puzzle he (and the viewer) can’t set aside until it’s solved.
‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Fearless’ (2003) (Book review)
Doranna Durgin crafts a more readable and entertaining “Angel” book her second time around with “Fearless” (October 2003). It has the same structure as “Impressions,” which I didn’t like as much, wherein we know what’s […]
‘The Devil’s Candy’ (2015) is heavy-metal horror
Movie review: Shiri Appleby and Ethan Embry star in this heavy-metal horror thriller.
‘ABC Murders’ miniseries reinvents Poirot
TV review: This miniseries is an interesting experiment. But I can’t shake the sense that John Malkovich is playing PINO — Poirot in Name Only.
‘Buffy’ flashback: Season 9, Issues 1-10 (2011-12) (Comic book reviews)
After Season 8, Dark Horse’s canonical “Buffy” comics do what the TV series did more than a decade prior: split into two series. While “Angel & Faith” go off to do their own thing, “Buffy” […]