TV Review: Woodley, Episode 4
Episode 4 once again increases the simple premise of a naïve and bumbling individual (Frank Woodley) out into the bigger world.
TV Review: Smash, Episode 4
“The Cost of Art” finally moves the new NBC series Smash into the rehearsal space. First day anxieties and nerves are a plenty, especially…
TV Review: The Straits, Episode 7
Perhaps a normal series may mark important revelations and cliffhangers at one a piece per episode. The Straits, however, climaxes it’s seventh episode with…
TV Review: Woodley, Episode 3
ABC’s new comedy series Woodley seems to be getting more confident each week. And it’s easy to see why.
Thievish Thursdays: The Sopranos
From the first episode, The Straits has been compared to David Chase‘s landmark HBO series The Sopranos. It’s easy to see where the comparisons…
TV Review: Smash, Episode 3
Enter Mr. DiMaggio, the third episode of NBC’s Smash, starts off with a literal playful bang. I wasn’t aware that humping was a common…
Film Review: The Birds (1963)
Having previously adapted Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1940) to triumphant acclaim, Alfred Hitchcock took on du Maurier’s 1953 short story The Birds (1963).
Film Review: Coriolanus (2011)
Power corrupts man. It is an age-old tale. Perhaps power also corrupts filmmakers to adapt classic plays in a similar corrupting effect.
Film Review: John Carter (2012)
Oh, what could have been… Had production been indeed productive, John Carter might have been the first animated feature film in cinema, pipping Snow…
TV Review: The Straits, Episode 6
After last week’s kidnapping of Marou (Jim Bani), The Straits continues the family fight for safety and who holds the throne. Noel (Aaron Fa’aoso)…