With apologies to Guns N’ Roses: Don’t take me down to the Asteroid City / Where the tropes are tired and the gags ain’t witty / Make it stop (Oh, won’t you please make it stop).To clarify an important point upfront, I’m no Wes Anderson hater. I get that he’s the mos...
Vikings: Valhallafocuses on the final decades of the Viking era, which will culminate in their final defeat during the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. Netflix's quasi-sequel doesn't reinvent much of what viewers will have previously seen. However, if you were a fan of Vikings' historical...
"Saturday Night Live" took a moment during their season finale on Saturday to remind viewers of "The Golden Rule." No, not the one your Sunday school teacher taught you, but the one about how when it's two guys and a girl in a so-called menage-a-trois, it's not gay. Don't rem...
This teen K-drama and romance series was a breakthrough in the Korean drama genre – helping expand the Korean Wave worldwide. The rom-com follows the journey of a poor student at an elite high school whom the F4 (the most popular boys) bullies – only for their leader to start falling...
Here is a film series that can be re-watched multiple times, and you will not be bored by it.The Hobbitfilm series includes the filmsAn Unexpected Journey(2012),The Desolation of Smaug(2013), andThe Battle of the Five Armies(2014). It is the prequel storyline toThe Lord of the Rings...
The above description doesn’t begin to explain this gem, with an amazing cast and fun “Easter Eggs,” tropes and toss-backs to specific musicals and stars. Watch the numbers and 6 Episodes in any order, because the story doesn’t matter as much as the fun. ...
Almost every aspect of Borderlands feels borrowed and unoriginal, simply a shameless regurgitation of supposedly popular genre tropes wrapped in bad costumes and disappointing CGI. The film somehow manages to look both obviously ill-advisedly expensive and awkwardly ‘cheap’ at the same time. The pl...
The above description doesn’t begin to explain this gem, with an amazing cast and fun “Easter Eggs,” tropes and toss-backs to specific musicals and stars. Watch the musical/dance numbers and 6 Episodes in any order, because the story doesn’t matter as much as the fun. ...
Mignola’s primary theme is always the past’s unshakeable hold over the present, the dead’s habit of returning to haunt the living. All of the above are the sort of gothic tropes that have recurred again and again in some form or other throughout Del Toro’s filmography too,... See...