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  • TV Episode Review: “Orphan Black” “Governed by Sound Reason and True Religion” (02.02)

    Recently, I wrote a rambling little post about the death of the paranoid thriller. Until this week’s episode, I didn’t realize that I had completely forgotten a current example of a paranoid thriller in Orphan Black. I think the show has been headed down the path to being a paranoid thriller since the start, but…

  • Movie Review: “Draft Day” (Ivan Reitman, USA 2014)

    Ivan Reitman is still around 30 years after directing Ghostbusters (USA 1984). In that time, he has directed such other classics as . . . okay, so he’s directed nothing else that anyone should see. When I first saw a trailer for Draft Day, I really did laugh out loud. I could not believe that…

  • Thoughts on the Previews: April 26, 2014

    The Draft Day (Ivan Reitman, USA 2014) review will go up sometime tonight/tomorrow morning and Orphan Black will hopefully be up mid-day sometime tomorrow. Since the last “Thoughts on the Previews” post was surprisingly popular, I thought I should write one again. Commercials The “trivia” is way, way, way too easy in movie theaters, because…