
TV: The Big Door Prize (Season 1)
Panning for gold in the streams of streaming, one could be forgiven for overlooking The Big Door Prize, given…
May 21, 2023Panning for gold in the streams of streaming, one could be forgiven for overlooking The Big Door Prize, given…
May 21, 2023On the spectrum of D&D fandom, I’m somewhere in the middle: enough history with the game to remember it…
May 7, 2023The British live-action comedy-fantasy Extraordinary has an identical premise to the animated Disney film Encanto: what if everyone received a…
April 30, 2023Future media historians writing about film production from the COVID-19 pandemic will find a perfect case study in How…
April 24, 2023The fast and furious rush of new content is dying down finally, but there are still so many new,…
April 6, 2023Like most of the universe, I missed the train on John from Cincinnati, a one-season failure from co-creators Kem…
February 25, 2023I missed the hullabaloo surrounding Susanna Clarke’s debut, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, which didn’t seem like my kind…
February 18, 2023The Green Bone Saga is one of my favorite series, immersive, compelling, and straight-up entertaining. The trilogy must have…
February 6, 2023It’s easy to see why Netflix’s 1899 was green-lit. A complex, period mystery box set on a ship, from…
February 6, 2023Terry Miles’ Rabbits (2021) is definitely my kind of book: a fast-paced, inventive adventure full of secret realities and…
January 22, 2023If there’s a defining drawback to Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, it may be the way it cherishes…
January 16, 2023A loopy, cartoonish trailer lured me to Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013), a comedic fantasy based…
January 16, 2023Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) is one of those rare films where…
December 26, 2022Can it be possible we’ve seen the last of Christine Baranski’s bravura turn as complex feminist lawyer Diane Lockhart?…
November 16, 2022It’s sad to say goodbye to Atlanta, a brilliant show that changed television, but it’s also good to see…
November 13, 2022