With the end of 2018 and beginning of 2019 came a massive 2018 movie catch-up! Gosh, what a fantastic year for film.

( Teen Titans Go! to the Movies: B+ )

I said I'd clear out my Netflix and DVR, and I did indeed make a small dent in them! And then added more.

( American Fable: B/B+ )

Do I watch more movies than anyone you know? Quite possibly.

( Metropolis: B+ )

Fleabag begins with arsefucking, but don't let that put you off! It's not like it begins with pigfucking. Don't look at me like that ( Read more... )

Donald Glover is certainly having a Cultural Moment, what with Solo and "This Is America" and Atlanta. Troy Barnes sure has come a long way. But what's the deal with Atlanta, anyway? What is Atlanta?

Ostensibly, Atlanta is a show about down-on-his-luck Earn, who decides to manage his rapper cousin Paper Boi just as he's hitting it big. He is so ( Read more... )

Every five or six months, perhaps? It's a good time to look back on a lot of movies.

( Resident Evil: The Final Chapter: B/B+ )

Back in the nineties, BoJack Horseman was on a famous TV show. The show? Horsin' Around. The role? Horse. Twenty years later, he's all washed up.

BoJack Horseman is about an anthropomorphic horse who lives in a world filled with similarly anthropomorphic animals, and somehow it's one of the most brilliant television shows airing right now ( Read more... )

Of course I'm gonna watch a show called The Indian Detective! It's about an Indian detective! Played by Russell Peters, oh well, I could think of many other South Asian men I'd rather see playing an Indian detective, but there are so few shows with Indian protagonists that I thought I could give four 45-minute episodes a whirl ( Read more... )

In the late seventies, FBI agent Holden Ford has a revolutionary idea: why not interview unusually violent murderers and figure out what makes them tick? He ropes in seasoned veteran Bill Tench (and later on, professor of psychology Wendy Carr) and lo, a special subgroup of the Behavioral Science Unit is born.

Based on the book Mindhunter: Inside ( Read more... )

American Vandal is a show whose central mystery can be summarized in four simple words: Who Drew the Dicks?

American Vandal is one of the best, smartest, most well written, most well acted shows of 2017 ( Read more... )