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Let’s cut right to the chase here: Solo: A Star Wars Story is not a bad film; in fact, it’s fairly good. However, whether someone finds it to be a good Star Wars film will be very much in the eye of the beholder. If you can let yourself get past the new actors in […]

I must start this by saying yes, I very much enjoyed the first Deadpool film.  A lot.  And I had extremely high hopes for Deadpool 2….but….a good friend managed to spoil the damn thing at least a month before I saw it. So, I went into the film knowing a pretty big part of the plot. It […]

STARZ doesn’t get enough credit for their series, but I personally think Sweetbitter might change that.  While only half-hour episodes, the series has tremendous promise. True, it’s right up my personal alley — as someone who has a love affair with the culinary world, Sweetbitter is exactly the type of show that caters to me. This […]

HBO’s highly acclaimed series Westworld is back, season 2 continuing in earnest last week with episode 3, “Virtù e Fortuna”. The wait has been long for fans of the show, the ending of season 1 leaving most viewers with more questions than answers. The premiere, following in the same first-season footpaths, did similar, leaving the door […]

For full disclosure, I have never liked Melissa McCarthy’s performances. In nearly every instance writers and directors have her doing lower-tier comedy and using her as the klutz with two left feet or as less than the very intelligent woman that she is. Even before the screening of Life of the Party had begin I […]

The 6th and final season of FX’s Cold War era spy drama series The Americans continues with episode 7, “Harvest”. Last week, Elizabeth (Keri Russell) was sent on a mission to Chicago to protect an asset, code named Harvest. She couldn’t do it alone, and Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys) begrudgingly says he’ll come and help her. […]

There is no arguing the impact James Cameron has had on the film industry.  From a piece of tape over a camera to create a signature effect in Escape From New York to resetting expectations of what CGI effects can be, Cameron has truly made himself a force in the art form. His newest project is a season […]

We keep saying it but Legion remains a high point of episodic television.  It’s trippy, very psychedelic, and strangely addictive. The story of mutants and mental powers being told in the rich visceral era the original Chris Claremont X-Men stories were placed in was a genius move, and one that sets the show apart on FX from any of […]

HBO’s highly acclaimed series Westworld is back, season 2 continuing in earnest last week with episode 2, “Reunion”. The wait has been long for fans of the show, the ending of season 1 leaving most viewers with more questions than answers. The premiere, following in the same first-season footpaths, did similar, leaving the door [what door] […]

STARZ doesn’t get enough credit for their series, but I personally think Sweetbitter might change that.  While only half-hour episodes, the series has tremendous promise. True, it’s right up my personal alley — as someone who has a love affair with the culinary world, Sweetbitter is exactly the type of show that caters to me. This […]