Review: The Vast of Night. Not All Teenage Fear Derives from Being a Teenager.
Review: The Vast of Night. Two friends combine their curiosity and courage to figure out where the hell that sound is coming from. The sound is haunting. Two young people whose lives revolve around audio, one a radio operator, the other a telephone operator, connect to first confirm, then investigate the mysterious sound. Set in […]
Review: The Night Manager Sizzles on Multiple Levels
Review: The Night Manager On BestEntertainmentReviews.com we post our reviews not with the rhythm of production, but with the rhythm of consumption. Sure, we like to watch all the latest content to watch, but sometimes there just isn’t enough time. A show we start one month takes several to finish. And thus it was with […]
Review: I’m Not Okay with This
Netflix’s I’m Not Okay with This, delivers a swift coming of age drama. It places the powered person origin story into a frenetic exploration of self-discovery. Young Sydney (Sophia Lilllis) begins the rapid-fire series running in the streets, presumably running from something horrible. I’m Not Okay with This draws its source material from Charles Forsman […]
Review: TNT’s Snowpiercer Worth Getting Your Ticket Punched
Review: TNT’s Snowpiercer Review: Snowpiercer — Humankind’s obsession with progress doomed the planet to a frosty death. A few stalwart humans find themselves on a train to nowhere, designed to ensure their future of humanity. The private project derails before it begins as hundreds of people stowaway on the train creating an unexpected class of […]
Review: Amazon’s Hunters Goes Down a Dark Path Toward More Darkness
Amazon’s Hunters Goes Down a Dark Path Toward More Darkness Amazon’s Hunters. I was in. The Karate Kid of Nazi hunter movies. I was hoping that was the pitch. The young orphaned Padawan, recently deprived of his grandmother’s love, taken in by a mysterious man who happens to be in the business of exacting revenge […]
Getting Ready for Snowpiercer: The Snowpiercer Timeline
You won’t be able to watch Snowpiercer until May 17 (though I have seen it and all I will say at this point that it is worth a watch). But unlike other SciFi shows, most notably Star Trek, the Snowpiercer team, from network to graphic novelists, don’t want any questions about timeline or canon. On […]
Review: Picard Season 1 Boldy Goes Where No Trek Has Gone Before
Review: Picard Season 1 Boldy Goes Where No Trek Has Gone Before Review: Picard Season 1 brings back one of Star Trek’s iconic characters. Patrick Steward does justice to Picard, but the show, like all the new Treks, fails to both inspire and create a cohesive worldview that explains how they got from Roddenberry to […]
Review: Altered Carbon Season 2 Hacks the 2380s But We’re Still Here!
Review: Altered Carbon Season 2 I inhaled Altered Carbon Season 2, the dystopian Netflix series. The first season established the logic of the future (or lack of logic), along with backstories driven by arrogance for longevity among the rich and powerful. This season, don’t look for too many familiar faces as the premise of the show […]
Review: The Witcher Vanquishes All Streaming Fantasy Comers
Review: The Witcher There is a lot of confusion in The Witcher. Broad time leaps propel the audience into various moments and subplots experienced by the immortal warrior. Our understanding of the characters and the overall narrative comes in fits and starts. ideas reveal characters and characters reveal ideas in a recursive stream of narrative […]
Review: Dracula Gives Netflix Horror Some Fresh Teeth
Review: Dracula We all know Dracula. So what new can be done to ensure we don’t lump into the long slumber while we watch? First, get Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffatt to deliver a Netflix horror romp that puts the charming, dirt-nailed bedazzler into tight circumstances against the emergent Van Helsing line, and enough little twists […]