Game of Thrones S07E05 – Eastwatch
Hoo boy there’s a lot goin on this week, and I don’t just mean in our favorite fantasy land of Westeros. Tough decisions are being made, old friends are reemerging from the depths of Flea Bottom, and the dead are…
Game of Thrones: S07E04 – The Spoils of War
“You’ve just won the biggest prize in the world. What could you have to be upset about? – Bronn” Ah good ol’ Ser Bronn, I’m so glad he’s back. The wisecracking-est knight this side of the Blackwater knows just how…
Game of Thrones: S07E03 – The Queen’s Justice
When the summer heat cracks the 90s and the humidity wraps you up like a furry blanket of sweaty torment, is there anything more refreshing than cannonballing into the pool? Answer: no. Well, maybe sticking your face directly in front of…
Game of Thrones: S07E02 Stormborn
Allow me to invite you into a moment. You have a Band-Aid stuck to your skin. And I mean it’s really stuck there. Probably to some hair on your arm or something. It has done its job, your boo boo…
Game of Thrones: S07E01 Dragonstone
After a few sips of the finest Arbor gold and a great deal of bodies hitting the floor, the opening credits roll and the dead come marching out of the cold, lifeless north. Winter is here. What follows these opening…
Who-ology – S10E12 The Doctor Falls
The Doctor is dead. Long live the Doctor. Well, sort of. At the end of season 10 we’ve got a Doctor hanging on for one more ride, and a show we’ve gotten to know for over a decade about to…
Who·ology – S10E08 The Lie of the Land
Last season in the episode “Face the Raven” the Doctor encountered what was called a “misdirection circuit.” This was created by alien creatures called lurkworms to hide trap streets from the minds of those passing by. The circuit was said…
Ferocious, Fearful, and Tenacious Hounds of Love
Australian Ben Young’s debut film, Hounds of Love, is a sordid, intense feature of survival in 1980’s suburban Perth. Starring Ashleigh Cummings as Vicky Malone, a young, teenage schoolgirl abducted by a deranged, serial killer couple (Emma Booth and Stephen Curry),…
Who-ology| S03E03 Gridlock
This episode has long been one of my favorites, certainly of season 3, possibly of all Doctor Who. There are so many threads worth following in this thematically rich story: kidnapping, drug addiction, terrible consequences of the human propensity towards excess, repentance and…
Review| The Dark Tapes (2017)
When anthology horror is executed well, it can be one of the most satisfying sub-genres of horror to witness. There is something cathartic about divining a united thread running between (seemingly) dissonant stories—usually told by different writers and directors. Each…