Comics, Fantasy, Film
Film: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
It’s almost as if an unfair world is punishing Marvel for finally diversifying. Just as the long-overdue Black Widow…
November 20, 2021-
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Comics, Fantasy, Horror, TelevisionTV: Sweet Home (Season 1)
I don’t know much about South Korea, but if what I’ve seen of its media is any indication —…
October 17, 2021 -
Comics, Film, SpiesFilm: Black Widow
One of the many things the pandemic has broken is my habit of racing out to theaters to catch…
October 8, 2021 -
Comics, TelevisionTV: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
The Disney+ MCU rolls on with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, a six-episode miniseries that — like its…
April 25, 2021 -
Comics, FilmFilm: X-Men: Dark Phoenix
It’s perhaps indicative of how low my emotional investment is in the X-Men franchise that I started X-Men: Dark…
March 10, 2021 -
Comics, TelevisionTV: WandaVision (Miniseries)
At last, the first of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s long-awaited television shows is out from Disney+. While WandaVision delivers…
March 7, 2021 -
Comics, Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: Utopia (Season 1)
For me, the cardinal sin of Amazon’s Utopia is that it really looks like it should be fun. But…
October 6, 2020 -
Comics, Fantasy, Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: Watchmen
Is it weird to say I would have enjoyed Watchmen (2019) more if I hadn’t been so aware I…
August 2, 2020 -
Comics, TelevisionTV: I Am Not Okay With This (Season 1)
Netflix’s I Am Not Okay With This is the perfect, laser-fast binge watch. Indeed, the only thing I’m not…
May 9, 2020 -
Comics, Science Fiction, TelevisionTV: Legion (Season 3)
In a genre beset by formulaic sameness, Legion stands out as a wildly inventive, perverse, and deeply weird trip…
April 9, 2020 -
Comics, TelevisionTV: Stumptown (Season 1)
ABC’s Stumptown, one of the few shows I follow weekly in this era of season-long binging, recently concluded its…
March 31, 2020 -
Comics, TelevisionTV: Jessica Jones (Seasons 2 & 3)
The Netflix/Marvel collaboration is over, and while I wouldn’t exactly call it a failure, it definitely didn’t live up…
August 25, 2019 -
Comics, FilmFilm: Spider-Man: Far From Home
Considering the apparent “finality” of Avengers: Endgame, it’s easy to forget that the closing film of the MCU’s third…
July 21, 2019 -
ComicsComics Roundup 2019
The glut of superhero content in movies and TV has diminished my bandwidth for comic books lately, but I…
June 23, 2019 -
Comics, TelevisionTV: Legion (Season 2)
What I loved most about Legion’s inaugural season was the fearless, inventive way it took superhero TV into an…
May 12, 2019