I liked the second episode of Welcome to Sweden a lot more than the first episode, and I have a feeling it’s only going to get better as the season continues. The cameos have been great so far and I hope that they continue. I love with things get awkward on TV shows and this […]
Masters of Sex returned with its second season premiere. I’ll admit that when it first aired, I was worried it was merely a fluff show trying to capitalize on the “era drama” popularized by Mad Men. Not being a fan of Mad Men, I gave the show a reluctant gander and was pleasantly drawn in. […]
Somewhere in the two-hours and forty-two minutes of Richard Linklater’s masterpiece you’ll find your mind wandering. Not because it’s boring or not engrossing but because Boyhood is a movie about reflection, one that begs for your nostalgia and capitalizes off of every person in the audience having grown up at some point. Or hoping they […]
Company One and the Boston Center for the Arts served up a full 24 hours of theater with their XX PlayLab, a free theater festival geared towards “propelling women playwrights.” Four plays and two panel discussions fostered fantastic dialogue between artists and audience, leading to exciting developments in existing dramatic works and uniting the Boston […]
If you’ve paid any attention to television, comics, movies, or games since the mid 1980’s, you’ve most likely heard of the Transformers. This race of transforming robots was created in 1984 by Hasbro Toys, based on a rebranding of transforming toys by a Japanese toy company named Takara Tomy Ltd. The two companies co-produced transformers […]
This week’s episode of The Leftovers, titled “Two Boats and a Helicopter” was definitely different from the first two. Rather than going from story to story as usual, we got to know Christopher Eccleston’s Matt Jamison a whole lot better than before. He is determined for people to know “the truth” about what happened. It […]
Death and Exposition With the death of Alicide it was time for Sookie to let his father know, in a rare heartfelt moment you see him shed some grief. Jason calls Hoyt in Alaska, to tell him his mother was killed. If you don’t remember, which I didn’t Hoyt had his memory of Jason taken […]
No Chance in Hell (A) Did I see all the Fringe musicals this year? I at the very least came very close to seeing all the Fringe musicals this year and, at least of the ones I saw (which I think was all of them), No Chance in Hell is far and away the best. […]