Film on the Internet: RED EYE
Wes Craven’s Red Eye is an engaging, propulsive, and slightly tongue-in-cheek thriller. It’s having a…
Dissolve On (9/10/2017-9/16/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
SPOTLIGHT Takes A Professional Look At A True Horror
At the risk of sounding entirely too superficial, it was about halfway through Tom McCarthy’s…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 8: “Omega Station”
True Detective‘s final episode this season comes close to double-length, and it divides neatly into…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 7: “Black Maps and Motel Rooms”
There aren’t a lot of ways a complex, Los Angeles-based story of crime, cops, and…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 6: “Church in Ruins”
Comparing the classical, effective opening scene of “Church in Ruins” to the largely weak rest…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 5: “Other Lives”
So, how do you top something like the all-owning, status-quo destroying shootout of last week?…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 4: “Down Will Come”
In the South they believed they had bloodied their land with history. In California we…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 3: “Maybe Tomorrow”
Storytelling is lying. What we hear, what we see, is not actually happening. What we…
TRUE DETECTIVE season 2, ep. 2: “Night Finds You”
Review of minutes 1-58: here, in the tenth hour of Nic Pizzolatto’s television works, we…