“The Next Phase” Allowed The Next Generation to Explore Death and the Afterlife
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“TV” Archives
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May 2023’s Best Streaming Titles: Freaks & Geeks, Parasite, Speed, The Last Unicorn, Demon Slayer
High school hilarity, Korean suspense, Keanu Reeves, melancholy fantasy, action-packed anime, and more.
Picard and Riker’s Relationship Was the Best Part of Star Trek: Picard
One reason Picard worked as well as it did was that it reveled in the camaraderie between these two old friends.
April 2023’s Best Streaming Titles: The Big Lebowski, Ong Bak, Coraline, Doctor Who, Psycho
The Dude, Muay Thai action, Neil Gaiman-inspired stop-motion, our favorite Time Lord, Norman Bates, and more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.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.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.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.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.
What’s the deal with The Rings of Power’s opening credits?
The series’ opening credits are a clever, and meaningful, Tolkien deep cut.