Look, I’m still not completely sold on DC’s "Green Lantern Corps: True Detective" angle, but this looks pretty solid. Pierre and Chandler sniping at each other for an entire season sounds an awful lot like good TV to me.
Slamdance Round 3, featuring two very different American profiles and a rowdy blast of hope from Chile: doomrocket.substack.com/p/slamdance-...
Slamdance Round 2, featuring two of my favorite films from the festival so far: doomrocket.substack.com/p/slamdance-...
THE PROJECTIONIST: A lyrical ode to movies and a full-circle moment for director Alexandre Rockwell, who returns to the monochrome and crime textures of IN THE SOUP and delivers a career highlight for Vondie Curtis-Hall.
My review: doomrocket.substack.com/p/slamdance-in-review-the-projectionist
!!! All my DUNK & EGG recaps have been assembled on the AVC homepage, geez louise:
A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS has been a remarkable series to watch unfold, bawdy and silly yet ruminative and full of heart -- for me, it's the best season of TV 2026 has seen yet.
My Dunk & Egg finale recap for @avclub.com: avclub.com/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-season-1-finale-recap
In Slamdance Mode all week long. Follow along, why don'tcha: doomrocket.substack.com/p/slamdance-...
STRIP LAW: Netflix's latest in motor-mouthed adult animation brings millennial humor screaming into middle age, and the results are more depressing than hilarious.
My review for @avclub.com: avclub.com/strip-law-review-netflix-tv-adult-animation
I don’t know who’s living the bigger lie: people who say the Eighties are dead or people who refuse to let it die. Either way, DEATH FIGHT FOREVER is here, coated in Saturday morning sugar, and unsurprisingly, it’s fun.
My review: doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-...
My nimrod thoughts on that Dunk & Egg flashback and a wild new comic from Mad Cave Studios: doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-...
While I didn't love the big narrative swing in tonight's Dunk & Egg, the series' commitment to character over spectacle remains its greatest strength.
My recap for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/a-knight-of-...
While I didn't love the big narrative swing in tonight's Dunk & Egg, the series' commitment to character over spectacle remains its greatest strength.
My recap for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/a-knight-of-...
Tomorrow at the Gene Siskel Film Center: Sook-Yin Lee's heartfelt situationship rom-dramedy PAYING FOR IT, followed by a Q&A with the director and ogn creator Chester Brown moderated by critic Ray Pride.
My review for DoomRocket: doomrocket.substack.com/p/in-review-primate-paying-for-it
CRIME 101: A serviceable crime saga in the mode of Michael Mann's HEAT, featuring a strong performance from Halle Berry and Hemsworth back in BLACKHAT mode. I hope that when Layton directs his next melodrama, he can work without his notes.
My review for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/crime-101-re...
OBEX: The best festival film I saw last year, and now that it's finally out in the wild (in select theaters and digital), it's currently my favorite theatrical release of 2026. See it! It's weird! It's sad! It's great!
My review for DoomRocket: doomrocket.substack.com/p/ccff-2025-...
Luminous Keke Palmer notwithstanding, I did not enjoy THE 'BURBS, a streaming time-sink that strips away the interesting genre elements from Joe Dante's delightfully wacko movie and replaces them with chardonnay and kindness. Why was this over five hours long? doomrocket.substack.com/p/get-ready-...
Just as Steely Pate gave Dunk his new shield and standard, preparing him for all his many battles to come, HBO gifted us an early (and symbolically rich) Dunk & Egg. My latest recap for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/a-knight-of-...
Dunk made an awesome breakfast sandwich, and Egg finally cracked his shell (under a level of pressure only Westeros can provide) in the most engrossing episode of A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS yet.
My recap for @avclub.com: avclub.com/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-recap-season-1-episode-3
WONDER MAN: The dullest Surf Dracula yet. Abdul-Mateen may look like a Marvel hero, but I don't get it. He hits one note nearly the entire stretch. Kingsley saves the day, but only just. Cool location photography, though.
SHELTER: Statham's grizzled dad-warrior protects his found daughter from a rogue MI6. Reasonably entertaining, pretty dry.
WORLDBREAKER: A generic post-apocalyptic drama that's better at drama than apocalypse, and deserves a sequel.
More over at DoomRocket: doomrocket.substack.com/p/in-review-...
Despite my ability to say “pretty please” quite well, I have once again been denied remote press access to the Sundance Film Festival. But I wanted to highlight the five films from the fest that I’m most excited to see this year doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-...
The most unexpected part of recapping A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS (so far) isn't just writing about the, uh, "greatness" of certain characters, but what we might learn from the presentation of such endowment. *cough*
Anyway, here's my latest recap for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/a-knight-of-...
I'm not immune to the trashy charms of Ryan Murphy and Matt Hodgson’s THE BEAUTY. Its goopy, Yuzna/Cronenbergian body horror makes for a nice, squirmy watch -- at least when it isn't bludgeoning its talking points into pretty paste.
My review for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/the-beauty-r...
Thoughts on the rumored plotline for MAN OF TOMORROW, Troma’s LUTHER THE GEEK, and AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SEVEN DIALS over at DoomRocket: doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-...
A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS E1: resembles LONE WOLF AND CUB more than GOT, smaller in scope and rife with humor, featuring two winning leads who might, with some luck, bring back some stability (and perspective) to HBO's bloated franchise.
My recap for @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/a-knight-of-...
Dingers like “immaculate infection” are why I watch this show.
THE RIP: Joe Carnahan's latest angry-cops flick is boosted mightily by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, who, through hardass beards, bicker like brothers and have some fun with all this alpha posturing. It's no NARC, but then, few movies are.
My latest @avclub.com: www.avclub.com/the-rip-review
Turns out I have only seen thirteen movies released in 2020 -- it's my cinematic gap year. To fix this, I've started a '20 Watch-Thru starting with Evan Morgan's THE KID DETECTIVE, a film that sets the bar ridiculously high doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-...
PAYING FOR IT: Resembles Zwigoff’s GHOST WORLD, an alt-comic adaptation that captures the richness of its zeitgeist (here, late-90s Toronto) and is notably kinder to the oddballs depicted in the original work, making it emotionally stronger than its source doomrocket.substack.com/p/in-review-...
RUN AWAY is a slick mystery trifle made with distracted watchers in mind. Characters frequently reiterate the stakes and the roles they play; it’s one of those shows that obligingly works its recaps into the dialogue. And you know what? Didn’t bother me. doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-...
