Comedy, Film
Film: Spin Me Round
Jeff Baena continues to deploy his talented troupe in his latest film, Spin Me Round (2022), an amusing anti-romcom…
September 11, 2022-
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Film, Horror, Mystery, ThrillerFilm: The Rental
Films don’t need to be huge and flashy to be effective, and The Rental (2020) is a slick little…
August 2, 2022 -
Drama, Film, ThrillerFilm: Promising Young Woman
It’s a shame we need a movie like Promising Young Woman (2020), and an even greater shame we didn’t…
October 2, 2021 -
FilmFilm: Horse Girl
A Netflix original film, Horse Girl (2020) is an esoteric piece with an indie look and quirky tone. While…
April 9, 2020 -
Fantasy, TelevisionTV: BoJack Horseman (Season 6)
When a show as consistently superb as BoJack Horseman nears its conclusion, it’s hard not to worry about the…
March 8, 2020 -
TelevisionTV: Glow (Season 3)
While I think the third season of Glow lacks the earlier years’ clockwork pacing, it continues a track record…
September 15, 2019 -
FilmFilm: The Little Hours
In retrospect, I shouldn’t be surprised by how much I enjoyed The Little Hours (2017), a ribald medieval comedy…
March 17, 2019 -
TelevisionTV: BoJack Horseman (Season 5)
The greatness of BoJack Horseman continues into its fifth season, which wrings painful laughs and powerful emotions out of…
October 9, 2018 -
TelevisionTV: Glow (Season 2)
It’s tempting in this age of relentless new television to stop at one season, rather than stick around for…
July 16, 2018 -
TelevisionTV: Glow (Season 1)
A recurring lesson of the new Platinum Age of Television is that the best shows make you care about…
July 29, 2017 -
TelevisionTV: BoJack Horseman (Seasons 1 & 2)
Life events prevented me from writing up a timely review of this, but allow me to belatedly recommend the…
October 3, 2015 -
FilmFilm: The Lego Movie
My initial reaction upon hearing about The Lego Movie (2014) was that it sounds like Product Placement: The Movie. And it sort…
January 23, 2015 -
TelevisionTV: Community (Season 5)
Community’s improbable fifth season was perhaps my most anticipated real-time watch of the year. Now that it’s wrapped, I can…
April 18, 2014 -
FilmFilm: Save the Date
As much as I adore Alison Brie and Lizzy Caplan, I couldn’t find much to love about Save the…
February 10, 2014 -
TelevisionTV: Community (Seasons 1-4)
After years of peripherally sensing the devoted passion of its cult following, and later its appalled disappointment, I’ve finally…
August 30, 2013