The time has come to tackle all eight episodes of Jupiter’s Legacy and discuss what went wrong.
[Read more…]Why ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ S1 Doesn’t Work [Review w/ Lindsay Traves]
‘Someone Like Me’ Is A Muddled Look At The Queer Refugee Experience [Hot Docs Review]
‘Someone Like Me’ portrays a year in the life of a group of LGBTQIA Canadians as they sponsor and support a gay Ugandan refugee in Vancouver, Canada.
[Read more…]Netflix’s ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ Struggles To Balance Politics with Character [Review w/ Lindsay Traves]
Jupiter’s Legacy is a story told in two time periods about the rise (and fall?) of the world’s first superheroes.
[Read more…]‘The Face of Anonymous’ Offers A Portrait Of An Aging Activist [Hot Docs Review]
With The Face of Anonymous, writer/director Gary Lang sets out to put a personal face on the purposefully faceless hacker group Anonymous. The face in question is Commander X, aka Christopher Doyon, one of the most visible members of the organization, who often spoke on behalf of the group and even published two books. [Read more…]
Docuseries ‘Sasquatch’ Ambitiously Tackles True Crime and Cryptids [Review w/ Gayly Dreadful]
Joe and Terry discuss Hulu’s three part docuseries, Sasquatch.
‘The Mortuary Collection’ Shines on Blu [Review]
I’ve had the opportunity to see Ryan Spindell’s horror anthology several times. Once with a live audience at Fantastic Fest in 2019, once at the Nightstream virtual festival in 2020 and now again on Blu in 2021. My opinion of the film has changed each time. [Read more…]
‘Fukushima 50’ Is A Dramatic Chronicle Of A Near Nuclear Disaster [Review]
Fukushima 50 offers a glimpse at the environmental and political elements that nearly contributed to a catastrophic nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011.
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‘Jakob’s Wife’ Needs More Marriage And Less Vampire [Review]
Two genre vets and a hot director team up for a fresh take on vampires. So why is Jakob’s Wife so muddled?
‘The Banishing’ Is A Stately, Sleepy Haunted House Film [He Said / She Said Review]
In He Said/She Said, critics Joe and Valeska dissect a film in a back and forth email exchange. Previously, we struggled to survive a cosmic horror invasion in The Beach House.
This time, we’re retreating into the past and venturing across the pond with Christopher Smith’s period ghost film, The Banishing.
Spoilers follow… [Read more…]
‘Moffie’ Is An Emotionally Resonant Look At The Effects of Queer Repression [Review]
There’s a careful balancing act occurring at the heart of Moffie, Oliver Hermanus’ film about a white, closeted, South African teenager forced into the country’s compulsory military service in 1981. [Read more…]
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