Shazam! further emboldens my hottest of takes: DC > Marvel.
Author: Steven Strauss
‘Hellboy’
I can’t decide if the new and not-improved Hellboy’s so-bad-it’s-good, or just…good?
Missing Spirit
Missing Link and Teenage Spirit:
Dragged Across Concrete | Sunset
‘Dragged Across Concrete’ — a sentiment that applies to both of these movies:
Four Quadrants
All disappointing, to varying degrees:
‘Us’
Is Us semiotic storytelling, semiotics as storytelling, or semiotics over storytelling?
‘Breakthrough’
It’s no revelation that certain pockets of Christian Americans believe that their belief system’s hegemony over the country’s values is under siege by the entertainment industry’s “progressivism.”
‘Carmine Street Guitars’
There’s a juxtaposition at the heart of Carmine Street Guitar’s approach that acts as a sort of key to what’s on the documentary’s mind.
Bad Aunt
The premise: A proudly-flagrant, flagrantly-proud asshole is enlisted, against their will, to take care of an estranged, adolescent relative.
‘Red Joan’
BBC Films is the new Masterpiece Theatre.
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