Race has become an important part of the film landscape. While representation remains wanting and films still struggle in their depictions of the subject, it’s still become essential to the discussion of them and we’ve seen an increase in well … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Green Book (2018)
Image by Wen Shi Greetings everyone! With Giftmas coming to a close and the end of the year fast approaching, we are bringing back our annual awards celebration, The Pits. The Kappa will soon be announcing the main part of … Continue reading The Pits: Best in Media Achievement for 2018 Announcement & Home Page
Much hay has been made over Roma and its status as a Netflix original that has gotten a wider than usual release from the company, but still one clinging stubbornly to a set of restrictions by the company. There are … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Roma (2018)
Series 11 Directed by Jamie Childs Written by Chris Chibnall Aside from the New Year’s special (which have never historically been considered a part of the season from an official or thematic standpoint), this episode brings to a conclusion of … Continue reading Doctor Who (Modern): S11E10 “The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos”
Series 11 Directed by Jamie Childs Written by Ed Hime The consensus for last week’s episode tended towards fine to enjoyable with the now expected added proviso that show sort of fumbled the end. I, on the other hand, was … Continue reading Doctor Who (Modern): S11E09 “It Takes You Away”
The Otter stalks the streets of Gotham City, patrolling for those who sought to break the law. These were her streets. This was her city. She dashed down alleyways, ready to smash open the skulls of criminals against her tummy or snuggling … Continue reading The Dark Otter kNight Thread
We just had our first biopic of the season, so it feels only appropriate to head into yet another. Coincidentally, or perhaps not since as we established last time, writers love writing about writers, we have another film centered around … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
Series 11 Directed by Sallie Aprahamian Written by Joy Wilkinson We still can’t stick the landing all that great, but all in all, the episodes have been rather enjoyable the past few weeks and this season as a whole. We … Continue reading Doctor Who (Modern): S11E08 “The Witchfinders”
Philadelphia has a special kind of attachment to the Rocky series. For the sixth largest city in the US, its cinema history isn’t nearly as extensive as its size would indicate. Yet, the 1976 original would go on to be both a … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Creed II (2018)
It’s taken longer than expected, but we’ve finally ventured into the biopic portion of Oscar Season. Our first subject is as quite favored by Hollywood, a writer, since there’s nothing writers love more than writing about their profession. Marie Colvin … Continue reading Movie Reviews: A Private War (2018)
Series 11 Directed by Jennifer Perrott Written by Pete McTighe Fresh off one of the strongest episodes of the season as well, it’s up to the show to continue that as it returns to a more traditional sci-fi storyline. That … Continue reading Doctor Who (Modern): S11E07 “Kerblam!”
Steve McQueen first broke out a decade ago with the great Irish-British prison film Hunger before following it up with the spectacularly misguided Shame. He rebounded however in making the well-made 12 Years a Slave which would go to win him … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Widows (2018)
Growing up, it felt like every guy had their moment where they tried skateboarding at least once. Usually it was after playing some Tony Hawk Pro Skater game or maybe after watching the X-Games, but it was a phase seemingly … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Mid90s (2018)
She had never been to LA before. It seemed such a wonderful city with all those movie stars, the sun, and most importantly, her father. Maria had never met her dad. Amelia told her little about him, quick to dismiss … Continue reading The Exquisite Corpse of Ava Cotto: Part 8
Part 1 – Enter the Wu-Tang Part 2 – The First Batch of Solo Albums Part 3 – Wu-Tang Forever Part 4 – The Second Batch of Solo Albums (Part 1) Part 5 – The Second Batch of Solo Albums … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Wu-Tang Clan (Part 6 – The W)
Series 11 Directed by Jamie Childs Written by Vinay Patel We’ve settled into a nice, solid groove this season with the last episode being no exception. If there’s anything that will threaten to break free from that groove, it is located right … Continue reading Doctor Who (Modern): S11E06 “Demons of the Punjab”
As much as I have been looking forward to moving on from talking about horror (a luxury which Overlord didn’t provide), I can’t say that this is what I was eager to move on to. A two+ hour YA discussion … Continue reading Movie Reviews: The Hate U Give (2018)
It feels good to be done with reviewing so many horror movies and move into November ready to tackle… another horror movie. Produced by J.J. Abrams, Overlord was originally rumored to be the fourth Cloverfield film (despite the fact that we had just … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Overlord (2018)
Season 6 Directed by David Maloney Written by Robert Holmes After a lengthy serial on Earth that would presage the next era of the show, it was time to head back into outer space. It’s a much shorter serial this … Continue reading Doctor Who (Classic): S06E04 “The Krotons”
Series 11 Directed by Jennifer Perrott Written by Chris Chibnall It only took 40% of the season for us to get here, but we finally have our Team TARDIS as an official unit after the events of “Arachnids in the … Continue reading Doctor Who (Modern): S11E05 “The Tsuranga Conundrum”
10/31/2018 – Grand Finale: A Bay of Blood (1971) Directed by Mario Bava Well it’s finally that time of the year, Halloween. I’ve been celebrating with horror movies all month, but it’s finally time to treat myself for all the writing … Continue reading Month of Horror 2018: A/S/L – Grand Finale: A Bay of Blood
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