Film: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
By now, the MCU has lost most of its capacity for surprise, so the most surprising aspect of Ant-Man and …
Film: The Catcher was a Spy
It seems I begin every biopic review by bemoaning the genre’s structural handcuffs, and The Catcher was a Spy (2018) …
TV: Living with Yourself (Season 1)
Netflix’s new series Living with Yourself probably sold itself on the pitch alone. Imagine, if you will, an elevator: “Paul …
Film — Avengers: Endgame
Phase Three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe concludes (well, more or less) with the fittingly titled Avengers: Endgame (2019). It …
Film: Ant-Man and the Wasp
The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s twentieth film, Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), is fast-paced, superficial, and inessential, but it’s kind of …
Film: Mute
Writer-director Duncan Jones showed some decent science fictional chops in his movies Moon and Source Code, but his new film …
Film: Captain America: Civil War
Boasting the same creative team as its outstanding predecessor, Captain America: Civil War (2016) once again centers on a perfectly realized …
TV: Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp
Of all Netflix’s series so far, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp has to be its most peculiar …
Film: Ant-Man
Marvel used to have a title called What If?, a series of one-off issues telling stories from alternate Marvel universes. …
Film: They Came Together
The formulaic Hollywood rom-com gets a satirical skewering in They Came Together (2014), an uneven but generally funny affair leveraging …
Film: Wanderlust
I put Wanderlust (2012) on for background noise while I was eating lunch the other day, and unexpectedly ended up …
Miscellaneous TV
I finally finished up season six of 24. Compared to the previous seasons, this one was definitely a stinker, but …
Odds & Ends
Random, recent observations… I half-watched I Love You, Man (2009) from across the room last weekend while playing WoW, and …