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“The fantasy of the end of the world only succeeds as a fantasy (or even as a horror story, if that’s what The Walking Dead is) if it offers an outcome more elevated than the one we have right now.…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 19 – In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
Doing the final (regular) episode of My So-Cast Life was a surprisingly emotional experience, possibly because it had us confront a super-emotional final (definitely) episode of My So-Called Life!
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Destroy All Monsters: LUKE CAGE, Democracy, and the Voices Outside the Majority
I’m not a political writer, though like many professionals and non-professionals on the pop culture beat this year, it’s been difficult to hold back some political views.
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Blu-ray Review: Two Years Later, BOYHOOD Ends On Criterion
Almost as soon as Boyhood was released in June of 2014, Richard Linklater was promising audiences that a Criterion Collection release was forthcoming – which made fans of the collection all the more disappointed when an (admittedly decent) studio Blu-ray…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 18 – Weekend
The parents head out to the countryside to “reconnect” (*bone) and Angela and Danielle are left home alone, Kevin McAllister style, in the hilarious penultimate episode of My So-Called Life. Have you got your tickets for our LIVE final episode…
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Destroy All Monsters: HBO’s WESTWORLD and the “Entertainment” of Sexual Violence
Trigger warning, sexual violence (and spoilers too, I guess, if you don’t want the first fifteen minutes of the first episode of Westworld spoiled for you): at the end of the Westworld pilot’s extended opening fake-out, a human man drags a…
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My So-Cast Life: Episode 17 – Betrayal
Name a more iconic duo. I’ll wait
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Destroy All Monsters: MOONLIGHT and Having a Flow Experience in the Cinema
I have a spot. A favourite spot, in Cinema 1 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, which is not my favourite movie theatre, but is in the top five. This spot is up in the balcony, way over on the left…
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Destroy All Monsters: The Normalized Atrocities of Julia Ducournau’s RAW
Last Monday night’s screening in the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival gained a week’s worth of notoriety when The Hollywood Reporter announced that three people had fainted during the show and were taken away in an…
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Destroy All Monsters: In the Blind Land of Nostalgia, STRANGER THINGS Is King
As I’ve mentioned before, the best movie of the summer wasn’t a movie; it was an 8-part Netflix serial about kids hanging out in the ’80s, caught (unbeknownst to them) in the plot of a Steven Spielberg movie. In a…