Chris’s Top 5 Letterboxd Reviews of 2019
In the tail end of 2019, I reached an unthinkable dilemma. For whatever reason, I had stopped caring about movies—as a business, as ...
The Golden Cages 2019: Best Supporting Actress
Another year of cinema has passed, which means it’s time for our second annual Golden Cages awards, the only end-of-the-year awards program featuring everyone’s ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 8 – The Redemption
When looking at the individual episodes of a television show, especially with a property so carefully-managed like Star Wars, it’s hard to find ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 7 – The Reckoning
After episodes of world-building, character-building, and who-knows-what-else, The Mandalorian season one finally rounds back to the inciting incident for the show. I’ve been ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 6 – The Prisoner
One of the clear strengths of The Mandalorian, especially in the earlier episodes, is that the eponymous character is not perfect—far from it. ...
Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 5 – The Gunslinger
Generally, I abhor the term “filler” when it comes to television. Even when an episode doesn’t make too many strides in long-term plot ...
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Review: Runaways (Season 3)
“I hate how the rules of this world keeps changing,” says Nico Minoru at one point in the third and final season of ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 4 – Sanctuary
If anyone watching The Mandalorian had somehow missed that this show was a Western, here is an episode that is pretty blatant with ...
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Review: Harley Quinn (Season 1)
There is something so profoundly unsettling to me with Harley Quinn’s character. It all goes back to the core of her relationship with ...
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Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 2 – The Child
So this is the kind of show The Mandalorian will be, eh? After an intriguing series premiere, the second episode of this Star ...
Recap: The Mandalorian Season 1, Episode 3 – The Sin
It has been hard to see most of the Star Wars stuff in the Disney era to be nothing more than homages to ...
Marvel’s Runaways third season will be its last on Hulu
There goes the neighborhood. While many assumed that Marvel Television’s Runaways was safe from the cancellation purge that took the Netflix-Marvel shows, a ...