Red Stewart reviews the third episode of Black Lightning… In my review of last week’s episode, “LaWanda: The Book of Hope,” I theorized that it would be the first part of a mini arc continued with this week’s “LaWanda: The Book of Burial.” The two entries, combined with the pilot, would form a trilogy of […]
Waco Episode 1 Review – ‘Visions and Omens’
Red Stewart reviews the first episode of Waco… I remember first learning about the Waco Siege during the Bundy Standoff in 2014. Many news outlets at the time were making comparisons between the two, leading me to look it up on Wikipedia. I don’t remember much about it, and I’ve refrained from revisiting that article […]
Movie Review – Attraction (2017)
Attraction, 2017. Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. Starring Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov, and Oleg Menshikov. SYNOPSIS: After an alien ship crash lands onto a Russian city, many who saw it and the occupants start to question their own existence while there are those who demand the aliens leave Earth. Russian cinema has been the source of some of the […]
Second Opinion – The Misguided (2017)
The Misguided, 2017. Written and directed by Shannon Alexander. Starring Steven J. Mihaljevich, Jasmine Nibali, Caleb Galati, and Katherine Langford. SYNOPSIS: After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation. The last thing I expected to think about while watching The […]
Black Lightning Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘LaWanda: The Book of Hope’
Red Stewart reviews the second episode of Black Lightning… Despite presumably being the first part of a two-episode arc that continues with next week’s ‘LaWanda: The Book of Burial’, ‘LaWanda: The Book of Hope’ felt a lot like a direct continuation of “The Resurrection.” Watching it, it was almost like the writers had read my review […]
Movie Review – Defective (2017)
Defective, 2017. Written and Directed by Reese Eveneshen. Starring Collin Paradine, Raven Cousens, Ashley Armstrong, and Dennis Andres. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, the corporation S.E.A., has implemented North America’s first and only police state. Uniformed, anonymous Preservers of Peace investigate, judge, and sentence people for even the smallest of crimes. The punishment? Instant public […]
Exclusive Interview – Actress Elizabeth Ho talks about Netflix show Disjointed and working with Kathy Bates
Red Stewart chats with Disjointed star Elizabeth Ho… Elizabeth Ho is an American actress who has been working in the industry since the mid-2000s. She studied acting at the University of Southern California, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in theater, all while working numerous blue collar jobs on the side. Her breakthrough came […]
Video Game Review – Nantucket
Red Stewart reviews Nantucket… When I first saw the concept for Nantucket, I admit I was quite piqued. As someone who enjoyed the literary classic Moby-Dick, here was a game that, on the outset, took Herman Melville’s epic and combined it with a good old-fashioned graphic adventure. Unfortunately, the experience I got from playing it ended up […]
Black Lightning Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Resurrection’
Red Stewart reviews the first episode of Black Lightning… Since Marvel’s reinvention of the genre in the 1960s, superhero comics have extended past the two-dimensional good vs. bad dynamic and delved into some tragically deep themes. Though this has been downplayed in the current renaissance of superhero movies and television shows, we still get bursts […]
Exclusive Interview: Jumanji sound editor Julian Slater talks Welcome to the Jungle and working with Edgar Wright
Red Stewart chats with Jumanji sound editor Julian Slater talks Welcome to the Jungle and working with Edgar Wright… Julian Slater has been working in the film industry since the early 1990s, usually in varying positions in the sound and audio departments. His extensive filmography covers television shows, independent movies, and blockbusters, ranging from Murphy’s Law […]
