Review: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 1
Midge Maisel is working very hard to put everything in her life in the right place, then her husband goes and blows it all up! The housewife trope may be tired, but Midge is just getting started. The series is sharp and engaging while inverting, subverting, and celebrating the 1950’s […]
Jolt Review: How to Handle (or Not) Several Thousand Volts of Kate Beckinsale
If you like to see Kate Beckinsale kick ass, and feel somewhat ambivalent about it, then spend an afternoon or evening with Jolt. A hyped-up Beckinsale’s Lindy takes anger management to a whole new level with enabler Dr. Munchin (Stanley Tucci). This is a completely stupid film with no redeeming […]
The Expanse, Season 5: A Very Human Solar System Asserts Itself
The Expanse is back on Amazon Prime with a vengeance. This season isn’t as much about the little blue meanie of a molecule, but about the people who have been more pawns in previous seasons, even with Holden’s near messianic aura. This season is about personal demons coming back to […]
Review: Upload
Amazon Prime’s Upload takes a 21st Century approach towards the afterlife. The series focuses on Nathan, a tech entrepreneur who dies in a self-driving car accident. At the hospital, he can have surgery or get uploaded. His girlfriend’s family foots the bill to upload him to a digital afterlife called […]
Review: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 3
What does it take to become a star? More importantly, how many times do you need to fail before you make it? Further, what if it never happens? Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) sets out in the third season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to try her hand at being […]
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Review: Patriotic Tension But Plenty of Flaws
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Strong acting hindered by a plot that manipulates coincidence into an art form. I really wanted to like Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan. San Diego Comic-Con conditioned me. From the sprawling virtual reality experience to the previews playing on every Fire TV Stick and Cube at the Amazon […]