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…
Ambulance is A Two-Hour Car Chase Disguised as a Michael Bay Movie
If someone offered you a million dollars for driving a car two hours straight, you would probably say yes. However, if someone asked you to drive a car full of stolen money and hostages with the entire LA law enforcement…
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…
Everyone Has Their Place: Examining Snowpiercer’s Ideology
Bong Joon-ho’s film Snowpiercer based on Jacques Lob’s post-apocalyptic French novel, Le Transperceneige follows Curtis Everett, a lower-class man or a “tailee” leading a revolution against an unyielding ideological regime. The year is 2031, 19 years after a man-made chemical…
The Dropout Dramatizes the Rise and Fall of an Ambitious Startup Founder Who Conned Her Investors (and Thousands of Patients) for Years
The Dropout is just one of three different shows about startup founders and their demise out right now. It’s also part of a larger trend of dramatization of real stories that are seen in other shows such as Inventing Anna,…
Apple TV+ Original Coda’s Best Picture Win May Just Bring a New Wave of Streaming Revolution
On March 27, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored the best performances of the film industry released between March 1 and December 31, 2021. If you finished processing the plucking editorials and memes regarding ‘The Slap’, you…
Upload Returns with a Better (and Shorter) Second Season, Expanding its Vision of the Future and the Digital Afterlife
A lot has changed since Upload’s first season premiered in May 2020. The pandemic has become an uneasy fixture of our daily life, and things have become even direr with a new war and the prospects of nuclear armageddon becoming…
Space Force Season Two is a Marginal Improvement, But it’s Still Not Enough to Save the Show
Space Force is hardly the first Greg Daniels-created sitcom to have to drastically readjust its course after a tumultuous first season. Both the Office and Parks and Recreation had to face this obstacle, and their success with the task gives…
