One Sentence Media Reviews
This is a heady, complex show about finance and ethics, with a lot of characters and high drama, and even though that's almost the opposite of things I usually watch, I did enjoy it quite a bit - chiefly because the writing and acting is really solid.
It isn't often that a major news article manages to thread together multiple levels (from on the ground reports on up through to big picture theorizing) about a thorny policy issue into a coherent and compelling narrative, but this Chicago Reader piece about food distribution policy efforts manages to do just that and more - the multiple levels of detail also make it a good entry point for anyone in Chicago who wants to learn more about these efforts.
My favorite Jackie Chan era (92-02ish) never fails to deliver, such as in this delightfully stupid and impeccably stunted action comedy extravaganza.
A hard, sad, funny, sometimes brilliant, very rape-y movie (so, like, I would not recommend it to most), full of moments and characters that manage to be simultaneously theatrical and profoundly human.
This incredibly long and detailed fantasy epic series is entirely too incredibly long and detailed; by 25% through I realized that remembering who all the different main characters were would take far more effort than the book deserved.
never knew much about this classic until I watched it; for some reason I was equating it with cayote ugly but really it's much more like a western with a few modern twists thrown in - and really it's a lot of fun with a lot of stupid lines sprinkled throughout that you'll love to repeat.
Now that I have read the third novel in this series, I can say with some certainty that while these weird fantasy books are fun and mostly engaging, in my personal opinion they could do with a bunch less florid description and a bunch more weird action.
from the mesmerizing electronic music to the deep interviews to the wonderful recreations of pieces of jodorosky's movie that never was, this 90 minute doc really shines, really does justice to the ambitious scale of the project.
Swainston's second book and second entry in this series is engaging, interesting, sexy, exciting, and weird, altho she still suffers from an overindulgence in lengthy descriptions and made up fantasy names.
this action drama show is good for mindless entertainment but it's really too bad because if the writing were a bit better it would be actually good.
I think if you love austen you'll like this, but it is altogether far too twee and I couldn't handle it.
fairly strange and somewhat boring indie flick, but Julia Garner is a joy.
I appreciated that this philosophical soft scifi mystery thriller whodunit simultaneously defies genre boundaries and speaks with a strong and unique voice.