she's gotta be more interesting than the slut I'm looking at right now." Truly a marriage made in TV heaven. This sex-and-money blockbuster chronicled the spectacularly evil Ewings and their Texas oil empire, led by Larry Hagman's J.R.Dallasinvented the prime-time soap tropes for family...
With its distinct visual style and innovative storytelling techniques, this series eschews traditional comic book tropes in favor of a more introspective and offbeat approach, making it an ideal choice for viewers looking for something different from their superhero shows. Darkly humorous yet de...
They don’t need to turn the world into tropes and boring cliches. I don’t need Hugh to be bad to understand James is good. I don’t need James and Helen to be good all the time either. If anyone is a bit petty and angry in this episode, it’s James. Well done, well done ...
Featuring memorable performances from Tim Daly and Colm Feore, this suspenseful miniseries expertly balances horror tropes with thought-provoking questions about human nature and moral choices when faced with unthinkable horrors. Premiered: February 14, 1999 Also ranks #3 on The Best Television ...
As the couple’s surroundings cycle through different eras of television sitcom tropes, they begin to suspect that something strange is happening to them.Of this year’s nominees for Best Movie/Limited Actor, Bettany happens to be the only one whose show is up for Best Limited Series. That ...
Sadly the mini-series adaption keeps the overly worn romance/crime drama tropes, and there are just an endless stream of them, and completely glosses over the clever technical aspects of the original work. In the end what we have is a standard soap opera. It is profoundly dumbed down to ...
Sherlockhas always shown a keen but loving disregard for its source material. Despite serving up a bevy of classical crime-solving tropes, its fluid aesthetic and modern-day realism eschew the stuffy reverence of countless other re-toolings of Arthur Conan Doyle’s celebrated series. Instead, co...
(L.A. Confidential, The Usual Suspects, House of Cards…) and is one of very few Hollywood actors who actually avoids getting extra face time (e.g. in gossip magazines) and has accumulated his considerable fame and wealth through (get this) being a good actor. He could probably ...
House of Darkness 2022 ★★½ Watched 18 Sep 2022 The dialogue was really fun at times. As it dragged on though it got a bit repetitive. Great popcorn flick though. Never Let Me Go 2010 ★★½ Watched 18 Sep 2022 I’d seen this film ages ago but on rewatch didn’t realize how...
Eric Andre is exceptional at taking typical TV tropes, warping them with his incredibly weird mind, and releasing a product that seems familiar up until you see someone vomiting on a table and then eating it. Andre’s comedy shocks viewers and forces them to sit through ridiculously ...