Quick Review: Doctor Sleep

I had planned to try and view this prior to recording our most recent Shallow & Pedantic podcast, but didn’t … Continue reading Quick Review: Doctor Sleep

Quick Review: Jojo Rabbit

Yes, I finally watched it. I’d had a hard time getting into it: first off-put by the banality of “LOL … Continue reading Quick Review: Jojo Rabbit

What can I say, sometimes my mood becomes very Russian. Dovlatov is a film about a Soviet dissident writer before … Continue reading Quick Reviews: Dovlatov and The Death of Stalin

It was boring. There. Actually, let me be fair. The first half is kind of boring. The second half describes … Continue reading Quick Review: The Irishman

On paper, this is the sort of thing I should hate: an unnecessary exploitation of an excellent TV show several … Continue reading Quick Review: El Camino

TV tropes are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, they exist because they work: they create a kind of … Continue reading Quick Review: Mindhunter Season 2

Weird little quirk of a film that somehow manages to condemn the age we live in, and the Matrix that … Continue reading Quick Review: Ingrid Goes West

I detest serial killers. By which I mean, I detest the attention paid to them by popular culture. There is … Continue reading Quick Review: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile

This little NetFlick represents the third time Kevin Costner has played an historical lawman up against a famous criminal. In … Continue reading Quick Review: The Highwaymen

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for … Continue reading Quick Review: Velvet Buzzsaw