March 2023’s Best Streaming Titles: Pulp Fiction, Top Gun: Maverick, Ted Lasso, The Mandalorian, Luther Royales with cheese, dogfights, everyone’s favorite soccer coach, Baby Yoda, Idris Elba, and more. Mar 1, 2023
February 2023’s Best Streaming Titles: Shaft, Black Panther, The Terminator, Lord of the Rings Classic blaxploitation, a return to Wakanda, Ah-nold’s greatest role, Peter Jackson’s journey to Middle-earth, and more. Feb 1, 2023
January 2023’s Best Streaming Titles: Black Dynamite, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Ghostbusters, Empire Records, The Raid 2 Kung fu treachery, Clone Force 99, Ecto-1, Rex Manning Day, pencak silat, and more. Jan 1, 2023
My 2023 TV Outlook: The Mandalorian, Loki, Severance, Ted Lasso & More Just a few of the TV shows that I’m looking forward to in 2023. Dec 21, 2022
December 2022’s Best Streaming Titles: Zoolander, Slow Horses, The Royal Tenenbaums, Blade Runner, Knives Out Ben Stiller’s fashion satire, Gary Oldman’s spy thriller, Wes Anderson’s dysfunctional family, replicants, Benoit Blanc’s latest mystery, and more. Dec 1, 2022
November 2022’s Best Streaming Titles: Guardians of the Galaxy, Harry Potter, Enola Holmes, Trevor Noah, Weird Al Star-Lord, the Boy Who Lived, Millie Bobby Brown, stand-up comedy, the Weird One, and more. Nov 1, 2022
The Rings of Power, Season One: Flawed, yet Faithful to the Spirit of Tolkien’s Mythos Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation is not without issues, but its heart (and sense of ambition) is in the right place. Oct 19, 2022
Winter Is Coming: An Introduction to Game of Thrones Why should you care about yet another fantasy series? Jason Morehead explains why the upcoming HBO series is different. Oct 4, 2022
October 2022’s Best Streaming Titles: Spectacular Spider-Man, Mysterious Benedict Society, Godzilla, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Spidey, Disney+‘s eccentric family adventure, the Big G himself, the Soggy Bottom Boys, and more. Oct 1, 2022
Doctor Who’s Doctrine, Part 3: Exterminating Evil A darkness and sense of tragedy lurk on Doctor Who’s edges, ready to storm in without warning. Sep 28, 2022
Leave Baby Bear and His Doll Alone Making silly, absurd claims that confuse what the Bible expects of us and what our cultural context expects of us will do no good. Sep 17, 2022
Filmwell’s “Favored TV Moments of 2012” As a companion piece of sorts to CaPC’s own list of favorite television shows from the last year, check out this list of “favored TV moments” by my Filmwell colleague M. Leary. Sep 16, 2022
Reality TV: Making Western Civilization Smarter and Better? As a culture, we enjoy the spectacle and self-righteousness too much, and reality TV finds it too profitable to do anything but feed that. Sep 14, 2022
Fox News Airs Suicide on Live Television This isn’t the first time that gruesome, violent footage has made it into a primetime news broadcast. Sep 14, 2022
Mixed Signals: This Year’s Best Super Bowl Ad Apple got a promotion for their device that was rooted in the here and now, in the reality of a heightened Super Bowl moment. Sep 14, 2022
What’s the deal with The Rings of Power’s opening credits? The series’ opening credits are a clever, and meaningful, Tolkien deep cut. Sep 13, 2022
Review Roundup: Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Critics respond to the first two episodes of Amazon’s billion-dollar adaptation of Tolkien’s works. Sep 1, 2022
September 2022’s Best Streaming Titles: Abbott Elementary, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Fight Club Elementary school comedy, a return to Middle-earth, a galaxy far, far away, Tyler Durden, and more. Sep 1, 2022
Character Flaws and the “Final Frontier” How Star Trek dropped the ball by making its characters a little too perfect. Aug 29, 2022
The Televangelists: Freaks and Geeks Offers a Thoughtful and Hilarious Look at High School Freaks and Geeks deserves all of the acclaim that it has received over the years, and for many reasons. Aug 24, 2022