I cried. I know. Surprise, surprise. But I did. It’s a lovely story that will take you out of yourself and then bring you back, a little wiser, a little happier. It is brought to life in an enchanting use of artistic animation and music and, so importantly, absolutely perfect […]
So I’m stuck. Last year, for Season 2 of War of the Worlds, I brought you screencaps and funny (I hope!) one-liners from each episode without spoiling the story too much. Gabriel Byrne, wearing a suitably tattered coat and looking stoic or thoughtful or perturbed, in one shot could mean […]
As you know, Gabriel Byrne’s brilliant television series In Treatment was rebooted last year, with the amazing Uzo Aduba taking her turn as the troubled therapist, this time in a world blind-sided by a pandemic, unsettled global politics, and, in the USA, healthcare policies that were inequitable and difficult to […]
Breathless. C’est moi. The final episode of Season Two of Howard Overman’s “grim dark” (I’m stealing this term from a fan of the show on Twitter) homage to the classic story of alien invasion and the human condition by H. G. Wells caught me by surprise and left me truly […]
When first hearing that Death of a Ladies’ Man would be available on March 12 “everywhere,” my heart leapt. Finally! But no. Everywhere turned out to be Canada. Dang. I have cleaned up my real response because this is generally a G-Rated website. Help was on the way, though! Cinequest […]
ZeroZeroZero is what we hope for in a series based on a very topical book about narcotics, money laundering, and bad guys. It sustains enormous tension across all eight episodes; it’s gritty and hyper-realistic, but also enormously lyrical and poetic in all the right spots; it uses an unexpected and […]