Pierce Brosnan’s 007 shame spiral has officially arrived. From its wildly overblown opening sequence to its threadbare plot, The World is Not Enough is without a doubt one of the worst all-time Bond movies. It would be nice if we could call it the low point of Brosnan’s tenure as James Bond, but fasten your … More The Bond Movie Series: The World is Not Enough
Detective Rizzoli and M.E. Maura Isles are back in one of Rizzoli and Isles’ most gruesome adventures yet. In a series known for grisly murders, that says quite a bit. You see, avid hunter and taxidermist Leon Gott has just been found eviscerated and hanging upside down in his own home. As if that wasn’t … More Book Review: Die Again, by Tess Gerritsen
Ranking every actor to win an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor from 2010-2019. … More Ranking the Best Supporting Actor Oscar Winners of the 2010s
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.” At the risk of overstating things, All the Light We Cannot See is far and away the most sumptuous, beautiful, and heartfelt book I’ve read in a great while. This is a book to get swept away in. Werner Pfennig is … More Book Review: All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
The 70s were a decade of rulebreaking cinema following the demise of the studio system. The 80s pivoted away from that and toward a prestige picture system, and the 90s doubled down on that. Not only were prestige pics often rewarded, with the rise of Miramax there came to be an entire industry around marketing them … More Ranking Every Best Picture Oscar Winner of the 1990s
Ranking every Academy Award winner for Best Actor in a Leading Role from 2010-2019. … More Ranking the Best Actor Oscar Winners of the 2010s
This one is going to get ugly. Like, really ugly. Deciding between the top four Best Actor winners from 2000-2009 is actually painful. There are four actors who genuinely deserve to be top dog here, but only one can snatch the title. Feel free to hate me for my choice if you must, but understand … More Ranking Every Best Actor Oscar Winner of the 2000s
Ranking every Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actress from 2010-2019. … More Ranking Every Best Supporting Actress Oscar Winner of the 2010s
Last time, in discussing Pierce Brosnan’s first outing as 007, I described his tenure in the role as a shame spiral that ended in total embarrassment. Thankfully, we aren’t there yet. Brosnan’s next adventure is the one where he takes the series off the cliff, so you have that to look forward to. If Goldeneye … More The Bond Movie Series: Tomorrow Never Dies
Like Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan apparently decided to get his best Bond movie out of the way first. But while the Moore years would be filled with ups and downs, Brosnan’s tenure as 007 can only be described as a shame spiral. It’s easy to hate on Brosnan as James Bond now, because his last … More The Bond Movie Series: GoldenEye
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