Severance is a Cerebral, Tense Sci-Fi Show with a Sinister Corporate Setting
Severance, created by Dan Erickson, is one of the most disturbing and inventive new tv shows of the year so far. Featuring fantastic performances, chilling cinematography, and stellar direction, it’s part of Apple TV+’s salvo of recent quality content as…
Bachchan Paandey is a Mostly Average Masala Film Anchored by its Lead Performance
A remake of the 2014 Tamil film Jigarthanda, Bachchan Paandey is one of those safe, mass-entertaining masala films that suffer from being quirky but never tapping fully into the ridiculousness of its over-the-top premise. Star Akshay Kumar seems to be…
Tokyo Vice is a Promising Crime Show about an American Journalist Investigating the Yakuza in the Nineties
Tokyo Vice is hardly the first western story to tackle the Yakuza, but it does boast a fantastic first episode directed by executive producer Michael Mann, who directed classics such as Heat and Collateral. Adapted from a memoir of Jake…
Russian Doll Explores New Territory in a Second Season That Falls Just Short of its Predecessor’s Heights
One-season tv series seem the way to go these days. Not only is there an influx of limited series right now, but more often than not, long tv shows peter out or get canceled, especially if they are out on…
WeCrashed Tells the Story of the Rise and ‘Fall’ of an Entrepreneur Couple and their Co-Working Company
WeCrashed is a tricky show to like. On one hand, lead actors Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway do well as obnoxious entrepreneurs high on their own supply, but at the same time, the show is also tonally disjointed and it…
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Continues the Streak of Breaking the Video Game Adaptation Curse
Due to circumstances no one saw coming, Sonic the Hedgehog ended up being the highest-grossing film of 2020. In true sequel fashion, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, tries to go bigger in almost all aspects, and it doesn’t always work. However,…
Dasvi Updates the Munna Bhai Formula with the Story of a Politician Who Decides to Complete his High School Education
Dasvi has an intriguing premise going for it: a corrupt politician decides to finish up his high school education while in prison as his previously submissive wife becomes a heady politician in her own right in his absence. Drawn from…
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a Fresh, Weirdly Funny Movie about the Multiverse that Might Just Become a Classic
Everything Everywhere All at Once takes the increasingly popular multiverse premise explored in superhero fiction like Spider-Man: No Way Home. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and The Flash, and creates a whole new niche for itself. It marries…
The Bubble is a Five Minute Sketch Stretched into a 2-Hour, Toothless Satire
Usually, you get to see reviewers flex their writing chops when especially terrible films have the misfortune of landing on their plates. As disappointed as they are by the terribleness of these films, one can’t help but feel that reviewers…
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Slows Down in Fourth Season (and Loses Some of its Momentum)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has always stood out because of its premise: a Jewish housewife starting a career as a standup comedian in the fifties. Four seasons in, however, the sheen of that premise has faded, and now we have…
