The Deuce, Season 1, Episode 7 Review: ‘Au Reservoir’
NOTE: Due to recent events that involved me pulling a muscle in my leg, not sleeping, and hobbling around like a gimp, you are not going to get my normal 2,000-word dissection of the...
Author: Kristina Rettig
RANT: Movie Theater Etiquette is F@%*!king DEAD
Before you read ahead, please know that the rant you’re about to read is no-holds-barred, expletive-filled, and not concerned with anyone’s feelings. You’ve been warned. Before I dig in to the topic above,...
The Deuce, Season 1, Episode 5 Review: ‘What Kind of Bad?’
While last week’s episode, ‘I See Money’, took a pause to survey where each of our characters were at in that moment, ‘What Kind of Bad?’ sees our characters actively making moves to advance...
‘Blade Runner 2049’ Review: An instant sci-fi classic that will punch you in the feels
Denis Villeneuve follows last year’s stellar auteur sci-fi film Arrival by tackling the sequel to one of the most beloved science fiction films of all time with Blade Runner 2049. And anyone who had...
The Deuce, Season 1, Episode 4 Review: ‘I See Money’
At the halfway mark for The Deuce‘s fourth episode titled ‘I See Money,’ the show seems to have taken the opportunity to let the characters take a break from moving forward and taking acton...
‘American Made’ Review: Tom Cruise traffics charm, humor, and other things in this electric caper
With the quality of Tom Cruise’s films being a bit unpredictable as of late, it would be totally fair to be skittish about doling out the dough to watch Doug Liman’s American Made –...
5 Times Tom Cruise Surprised the Hell Out of the Haters
While it’s probably universally accepted that Tom Cruise is one of the most enduring and bankable movie stars still working today, anyone who’s followed him throughout his career (as I have) also knows that...
The Deuce, Season 1, Episode 3 Review: ‘The Principle Is All’
The Deuce‘s third episode, ‘The Principle is All,’ saw a lot of our key players’ storylines kick into high gear as Vinnie (James Franco) opens his own bar; Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) digs deeper into...
The Deuce, Season 1, Episode 2 Review: ‘Show and Prove’
Well, we can add The Deuce to the list of shows I should absolutely never watch while eating dinner. While even the pilot was pretty unapologetic in its depiction of sex workers and sex...
‘Mother!’ Review: I Don’t Know What the F*@&% That Was
Darren Aronofsky makes the types of films that I can always walk out of being dazzled by the artistry and singular filmmaking technique, while also being emotionally and/or psychologically devastated enough to know that...