TV: Westworld (Seasons 1-3)
As a property, Westworld had enough things going against it for me—a reboot of an iffy 1970s science fiction film …
Film: Thor: Ragnarok
In an uneven MCU franchise, Thor: Ragnarok (2017) arrives as a clever and entertaining entry, thanks to a refreshingly erratic …
Film: Thor: The Dark World
Of all the Avengers franchise characters, Thor is probably the least interesting, but Thor: The Dark World (2013) is superior …
Film: Hitchcock
Like the highly similar HBO film The Girl — a project I’m finding it hard not to compare this to …
Film: 360
360 (2011) is one of those arty, episodic films that interlaces numerous short stories into a globe-spanning mosaic. I like …
Spy 100, #33: The Looking Glass War
In the introduction to John leCarré’s The Looking Glass War, the author recounts how it was written in the shadow …
Film: Thor
When I collected comics back in the 1980s, I was a huge Avengers fan, so I’ve been following the build-up …