Archives for June, 2024

“House of the Dragon” (2022-Present): Season 2, Episodes I-II (Review)

In George R.R. Martin’s perverted modern “fantasy,” you must kill the baby. Unfortunately, that was often how things went in medieval times.  It was also how the communists dealt with the Romanov family less than a year after they took over Russia in 1917. But what does it mean when it is depicted by a […]

“Hit Man” (2023): The Empty Expanded Classroom (Review)

★★ Richard Linklater and Glen Powell are not deep thinkers.  Hit Man would be a much better film if they understood that. Linklater in particular has never evolved in his musings about life, human needs, and the sense of self after one, no more than two, semesters of college.  If he took more than that, […]