Brandon Trones

In what is the most unyielding financial juggernaut of the summer, Barbie has dominated the box office for the last two weeks (with no signs of losing traction).

Christopher Nolan has a knack for taking complex matters and breaking them into digestible pieces for his audience. He’s proven himself a cinematic genius —from resurrecting the Batman franchise as a bleak yet high-octane crime saga to creating twisty-turny spectacles likeMementoandInception.

Starting with Ghost Protocol, the indelible quality of the last three Mission Impossible movies have proven to be upper echelon in action and adventure.

This is a movie review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, released June 30, 2023. Let’s just get this out of the way.

In late June, FX dropped in totality, Season 2 of its hit sleeper  The Bear.

In the seventh and possibly final appearance of this ragtag, super team in the Marvel cineverse, GOTG: Volume 3 is an intergalactic explosion of weirdness and forced emotion.

Peter Pan & Wendy (2023) is the latest in the lineup of classic Disney feature cartoons remade into live action. Upon watching, it will quickly become obvious as to why it bypassed theaters and headed straight to streaming.

In a pre-summer season devoid of quality entertainment, Netflix has saved us by releasing its well-received dark series, Beef.

Over the last few years, the Koreans have quietly pulled ahead of the United States media-wise, in concept and vigor.

The other day I had the delight of seeing a preview in the theaters I hadn’t yet caught at home or online.

Nearly a decade ago, we were introduced to the heavy on action, light on dialogue title that is John Wick. On paper the Wick series reads like any paint by number, straight to video action franchise.

The apex of the digital age has come and gone. It’s clear we’re on the backside now in the chaotic aftermath of an oversaturated market.

Warner Bros. has long felt like the boss’s son of a studio. Its department heads inherited big named properties, have all the money they know what to do with and yet continue confuse us.

In a few days, Netflix will unleash upon humanity, another season of its hit series Love is Blind. You’re welcome to jump in at the start of any of its 4 seasons and binge away.

Friday, the world lost one of its great talents. With a career spanning nearly three decades, Lance Reddick was a face and voice you’d immediately recognize, and the glue that held many of television’s great shows together.

By audience consensus, the Academy Awards rarely get their major picks correct. There are winners every year of course, but  the Oscars for Best Acting (on any level), Director, and Picture are great examples of design by committee.

Sunday evening, HBO aired the final episode of the zombie apocalyptic thriller The Last of Us.

Spoiler Alert! Be aware. After a month long hiatus, Netflix has released the final half of season 4 of the hit psychological thriller You.