Animation Reviews: Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
Spirited Away, directed and written by Hayao Miyazaki, is arguably the best animation film I’ve ever seen. A bold statement right? Well, I thought I’d...
Smiling Friends S1E2: Mr. Frog
In today’s world of instant virality, it takes only one slip-up for a beloved celebrity to tumble from stardom to disgrace. Whether it be an...
Smiling Friends S1E1: Desmond’s Big Day Out
Desmond is a wrinkled, balding, and overweight man who perpetually holds a .50 caliber magnum to his head. Can two dudes who have never experienced...
The Umbrella Academy S4E6: End of the Beginning
Tolstoy suggested that all happy families are alike; all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. This, not super-powers, or world-ending catastrophes, is the...
The Umbrella Academy S4E5: Six Years, Five Months, Two Days
So last week, Five and Lila got very, very lost, on the metaphysical subway that connects the show's disparate timelines. So lost, in fact, it...
The Umbrella Academy S4E4: The Cleanse
At the end of last episode, an alternative-timeline version of the Hargreeves' estranged father hooked them up to a machine intended to bring back their...
The Umbrella Academy S4E3: The Squid and the Girl
Last week the Umbrellas went to small-town Maine, to find a missing woman named Jessica. Ben befriended her just in time to discover that the...
The Umbrella Academy S4E2: Jean and Gene
We all knew when the Hargreeves lost their powers at the end of last season, The Umbrella Academy wouldn’t waste too much time handing them...
The Umbrella Academy S4E1: The Unbearable Tragedy of Getting What You Want
I don’t understand why this is, but it’s the good-but-not-great shows that keep me tuning in. Yeah, yeah, another masterfully written and subtly acted episode...
The Big Door Prize S2E10: Deercoming
At the end of last week’s episode, Dusty — shaken by the revelation that he was in Alice’s Morpho vision, and less sure than he...