Stranger Things: S01E03 Holly Jolly
Barb is dead. Long live Barb! Nancy gives in to Steve’s consistent pursuit of her after the pool party while Barb struggles out of what the audience now comes to see as a parallel reality: She is in the swimming…
Stranger Things: S01E02 The Weirdo on Maple Street
Only two episodes into Stranger Things and there’s really only one question to ask: are you hooked yet? You are, admit it. Or, if you’ve already finished the series, you can probably point to this episode as the one where…
Stranger Things: S01E01 The Vanishing of Will Byers
By the time the mysterious, shaven-head girl, Eleven, emerges from the woods and meets our three intrepid boy wonders, we have completed the first episode of The Duffer Brothers’ new Netflix series, Stranger Things, and been plunged into a 80s-tinged…
Five Things to Love About ‘Star Trek Beyond’
Star Trek is one of my favorite things. I grew up watching The Next Generation, and after J.J. Abrams first film in this reboot series in 2009, I watched The Original Series and loved it too. (Despite its campiness and…
Who-ology| S02E12 Army of Ghosts
“Army of Ghosts” is part one of the two-part story that is the finale of season two. At its beginning, the Doctor and Rose return to modern-day London to visit Jackie Tyler, only to find that the world has gone…
Review| Swiss Army Man
My wife and I have recently returned to re-watching one of our favorite TV shows ever, The Office. In a show filled with lovable and distinct characters, my favorite character will always and shall ever be Steve Carell’s Michael Scott.…
Review| Bone Tomahawk
At first thought, the genres of Horror and Western might not appear to have much to do with one another. Westerns evoke thoughts of a dusty America at the dawn of the modern age while horror conjures images of dank,…
Game of Thrones: S06E10 The Winds of Winter
So with an explosion of highly destructive, wild green fire, winter finally makes its entrance to the world of Westeros. How does one simultaneously gasp with horror and breathe a sigh of relief? I don’t exactly know but I’m pretty…
Review| Independence Day: Resurgence
A BBC news story from 2012 details the tragic fallout of a war-torn country, ravaged by bombings, political infighting, international conflict, ethnic violence, assassinations, and terrorism. 800,000 to a million children in Iraq have grown up with no parents and…
Redemption and Restoration in Independence Day
Abraham Lincoln once said, “The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” A man who was known to have failed multiple times in his…