Double Feature: Toy Story 4 and Child’s Play
Toy Story and Child’s Play were both defining films of my childhood. In very different ways, of course.
Toy Story and Child’s Play were both defining films of my childhood. In very different ways, of course.
Despite its reception and reputation, Bad Santa 2 isn’t impressed by its own naughtiness.
“I don’t see nothin’ but what I’m lookin’ at.” This line – or variations thereof – is repeated in John Slattery’s God’s Pocket, as ordinary folk reassure one another that they have no interest in the other’s minor misdeeds. It’s also a reasonable description of my reaction to the film; it’s not bad, but it…
Mad Men is one of my favourite shows, but I deliberately chose not to cover it for season six; its dense symbolism and layers of meaning are nigh-impossible to deconstruct in two hundred words, and, besides, I’ll never approach the quality of Zoller Seitz’s or Sepinwall’s analysis. Season six was ultimately a disappointment compared to…