TV Recap: Louie, S05E03, Cop Story
byLouie takes places in a world like ours, but not. Even though it’s full of the confusion and frustration of the real world it’s…
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TV Recap: Silicon Valley, S02E02, Runaway Devaluation
byOne of the best parts of the first season of Silicon Valley was watching the main cast bounce off each other in the close…
TV Recap: Louie, S05E02, A La Carte
byLast week’s episode of Louie appeared to herald a return to an earlier form of the show, and ‘A La Carte’ continued that theme,…
TV Recap: Silicon Valley, S02E01, Sand Hill Shuffle
byThe return of Silicon Valley and Veep on HBO marks Sunday as one of the sharpest nights of satire on TV. While the latter…
TV Recap: Louie, S05E01, Pot Luck
byLouie is unlike any other sitcom on TV, if it can even be classed as such. Its creator, the eponymous Louis C.K., breaks traditional sitcom…
MIFF14: Mommy (2014)
byCausing quite a stir at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year was Mommy, written and directed by Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan. Infused with…
MIFF14: Mommy (2014)
byI’ll admit it now, I’m a Xavier Dolan novice. Mommy is only the second film that I’ve seen of this French/Canadian wunderkind, and the…
AFFFF15: Diplomacy (2015)
byParis. August 24, 1944. Diplomacy, based on real life events and directed by Volker Schlöndorff, provides a fascinating depiction of how, over the course…
Film Review: Seventh Son (2014)
bySeventh Son is pretty easy to enjoy, with a grizzly Jeff Bridges and an elegantly evil Julianne Moore at the helm. If entertainment is…
Film Review: Into the Woods (2014)
byStrange things happen in the woods. At any given moment in Rob Marshall‘s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine‘s musical Into the Woods,…