High Maintenance (2016-) Review: HBO’s Empathy Machine
High Maintenance is a gem. It’s difficult picking good TV to watch with a group of people since “good” means…
Welcome To Sajjanpur and the “Quirky Heartland Comedy” Trope
Revisiting Shyam Benegal’s Welcome to Sajjanpur now made me realize how this 2008 sleeper hit had all the tropes of…
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet [2020] Netflix Review – A Clarion Call to Save the World
It is heartbreaking to see a 93-year-old man (now aged 94) on-screen pleading humankind to stop destroying the love of…
Pen15 (Season 2) HULU Review – Cringe Comedy that Manages to be Insightful
Although most of us are opposed to taking a trip down the memory lane of our embarrassing and awkward days…
My Octopus Teacher [2020] Netflix Review: An Extraordinarily Beautiful Documentary
After watching yet another documentary about the natural world close on the heels of David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet (2020), I…
Sertania [2020] ´CIFF´ Review – A Symbolic and Experimental Western
At the age of eighty-two, filmmaker Geraldo Sarno shows that he is still a young artist in the experimental sense….
The Invisible Man [2020] Review: A Timely Spin on a Classic Source
The Invisible Man was first revived by Universal Pictures as part of what they intended to be their own shared…
Sister Tempest (2020) Review: A Sumptuous, Overwhelming Feast For The Senses
Sister Tempest (2020): A Sumptuous, Overwhelming Feast For The Senses: Consider a pastiche of Star Trek, Rocky Horror, and a…