LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Episode 9: “Rewind 1921”
LOVECRAFT COUNTRY’s 9th episode is an astonishingly great installment in a very rough series, and makes the rest of the show seem like a lost opportunity.
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LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Episode 8: “Jig-A-Bobo”
Condolences to the family of Emmett Till
With LOVECRAFT COUNTRY’s 8th episode you really get the show in a nutshell: It doesn’t know what it’s doing half the time, and whatever it thinks it is doing, it’s not even close to achieving.
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Isolation Nation: Volume 26
Wampyrs! Weebs! Wideo Games!
This week on Isolation Nation, we’re playing No Man’s Sky, watching wackadoo anime, and sinking our fangs into FX’ What We Do In The Shadows
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Mavis’s Watchpile, Vol. 6
The latest edition of Mavis’s Watchpile features films by Francis Ford Coppola, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Paul Verhoeven and two from Robert Zemeckis
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Review: THE GLORIAS
The Glorias kicks off like basically every biopic, with a scene featuring the Oldest version of Gloria Steinem (played in this incarnation by Julianne Moore). The film then cuts back to her childhood upbringing, contrasting who she became with where she started. It’s a traditional framing that belies a far more unconventional vision that the film
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LOVECRAFT COUNTRY Episode 7: “I Am”
I Yam What I Yam
“I Am” is a good, but not great episode of LOVECRAFT COUNTRY that still suffers due to the series’ poor characterization despite it’s strong, weighty thematic material.
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