Since I finished reading Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s novel “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter” back in high school, I’ve wanted to see what the story would look like on screen. I recall there being rumors of a film adaptation, starring the late Robin Williams and the late Alan Rickman […]
Well, I didn’t quite get it all right with my prediction last week, but I got pretty darn close. Jon didn’t get the Throne – instead he got a trip back to The Wall (the only place he ever truly fit in, if we’re being honest), and a really lovely reunion with Ghost (I still […]
First off, I need to say that I never had the chance to read Joseph Heller’s novel “Catch-22” during my time in school (I had a chance to read it in 8th grade, but opted to read “The Grapes of Wrath” instead – after watching the Hulu miniseries of “Catch-22” I strongly suspect I picked […]
Phoebe Waller-Bridge has had a heck of a year. Last May, she played one of the only well-reviewed parts of Solo: A Star Wars Story (as Lando’s droid, L3-37). Right about then, Killing Eve, the brilliant BBC drama Waller-Bridge created and showran, was starting to become a phenomenon. This spring, she took the original one-woman […]
Let’s get this out of the way right now: That was not a good episode of television. It certainly wasn’t a good penultimate episode of a series. And it definitely wasn’t a good penultimate episode of television for a series that has spent so many years toiling in the minutia of character development and palace […]
Well, I guess Missandei and Grey Worm won’t be getting that beach front property after all (too soon?). There’s a general problem that arises as a series that is as plot heavy as Game of Thrones approaches its end game: characters and story arcs become rigidly stuck along a particular path to get to the […]
That was, dare I say, pretty disappointing? For all the hype, for all the talk of the longest sustained battle on screen, for all the warning of painful character deaths, we got that? An hour and a half of quick, confusing cuts (that made it incredibly hard to understand just what was happening- and who […]
