Veep: Season 4 (2015)
Now in its fourth season, Veep feels as if it is in a transitional phase. For one thing, Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is no longer Veep: she’s the incumbent [...]
Making a Murderer (2015)
“Reviewing” seems a strangely literal – or a strangely inadequate – response to an event like Making a Murderer. Joining the ranks of documentaries that have [...]
Transparent: Season 2 (2015)
As I mentioned in my previous post, I was somewhat taken aback to find that the second season of Transparent was – for me, at least – every bit as perfect as the first. [...]
Conceptualising L.A.
Against all odds, the second season of Transparent is every bit as perfect as the first. Granted, I may have been in a particularly receptive space this time around, not just [...]
David Bowie: Blackstar (2016)
When I first heard that David Bowie had died, I was in a plane over the Pacific Ocean, stricken by an extreme bout of food poisoning. Delirious, I clambered onto United Wi-Fi [...]
Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo (2015)
In many ways, Live at the Apollo is the Amy Schumer triumph I’ve been waiting for throughout 2015. That might sound like a bit of a weird thing to say, since 2015 has been [...]
Moore: The Omen (2006)
While the 00s undoubtedly witnessed its own unique brand of horror franchises, such as the Saw, Hostel and Paranormal Activity films, there was also a renewed serial gesture [...]
Montesi & Otherin-Girard: The Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)
Released a full ten years after the last film in The Omen cycle, The Omen IV doesn’t feel like a continuation of the franchise so much as an attempt to renew the franchise [...]
Baker: The Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981)
In many ways, The Omen III marks a bit of a break from the previous two films, which are so organically intertwined that it almost feels as if the first prophesied the [...]
Taylor: Damien: The Omen II (1978)
Like so many horror franchises of the 70s and 80s, The Omen series started with a sequel, then turned into a trilogy, only embracing total seriality with the fourth film, [...]