17 April 2018
The 2017 Critics’ Pick Award Winners: Cinema
By Kelly Bedard, Clay Keller, Dane McDonald, Saiya Floyd and Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
2017 was one of the greatest years of filmmaking we’ve ever seen. On one hand, that made finding enough brilliant nominees to fill each category of the Critics’ Pick Awards …
09 July 2017
Baby Driver
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
Every once and a while I walk out of a movie and just think “Damn, that movie was perfect.” It doesn’t mean it’s my favorite movie or even my favorite …
16 June 2017
Praised Be, Bitch
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
In a lot of ways, both for me as a reviewer and for this show that I cover, we end like we began. I started with a two-episode binge that …
07 June 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale: “Jezebels”
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
Now we’re really in the thick of it with The Handmaid’s Tale — exploring the world of Gillead and building the desire to take it on down. This week’s episode …
07 June 2017
Wonder Woman– The First Chapter
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
In 2011, when Captain America: The First Avenger came out, I wrote a review that basically boiled down to: I’d watch the TV show but am bored with the pilot episode. …
27 May 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale: “The Other Side”
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
This week’s episode of The Handmaid’s Tale shifted its focus. Star Elisabeth Moss has been an unbelievable asset to the show – making nuance out of Offred’s stuffy and confined …
24 May 2017
Schumer & Hawn Get Snatched
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
Comedy feels like it’s in a transition zone – from the emotions + improv vibes of mid-aughts Judd Apatow to more traditional, high concept comedies like Amy Schumer’s latest, Snatched. …
21 May 2017
Handmaid’s Tale: “A Woman’s Place”
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
In episode five, “A Woman’s Place,” our series explores the complicity of the women in the world of Gillead, and it is terrifying. Not only do we get a deep …
16 May 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale: “Faithful”
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
This was the first episode of The Handmaid’s Tale that throughout felt like… a TV show. A really good TV show, mind, but a show that relies on the normal …
11 May 2017
The Handmaid’s Tale, A Second Sitting
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
My second viewing party of The Handmaid’s Tale was, if anything, more horrifying than the first. It was also, inexplicably, more hopeful. This week, we’ll take ourselves episode by episode, …
30 April 2017
Pilot Watch: Handmaid’s Tale
By Rachael Nisenkier // TV
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The below review represents the first two episode’s of Hulu’s new show, The Handmaid’s Tale. We will follow up next week with the second two episodes, and from …
27 April 2017
Tear Jerked: Gifted
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
Gifted is the very definition of a tear jerker – its every line is meant to either enhance the tears that are to come or layer on the tears once …
29 March 2017
Beauty and the Sheep
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
I am a straight up sucker. Just take my money. Seriously. Take my money. This is the dark truth of my movie consumption habits. A fatal flaw I’ve had to …
01 January 2017
The 2016 MyCinema Award Nominees
By Rachael Nisenkier // Cinema
It’s MyCinema Awards time – that time when our writing staff digs through the long lists of movies we loved, loathed, and everything in between to try and capture The …
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