Author: Virginia Kublawi
REVIEW: The Addams Family (2019)
This Halloween season has brought us another iteration of The Addams Family, a series of characters created by Charles Addams for his cartoon strips and immortalized by the 1960’s sitcom. People often deride remakes, re-boots, and all kinds of re-interpretations in blanket statements, but it depen...
Read MoreREVIEW: Abominable (2019)
DreamWorks Animation is one studio that’s always interested me, but not always for the better. They’ve made some of my favorite movies, namely The Prince of Egypt and the How to Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda franchises. However, triumphs like these are vastly outnumbered by their stinkers ...
Read MoreREVIEW: American Horror Story – Season 9, Episode 4, “True Killers”
*SPOILERS* “True Killers” opens with Montana instructing an all-male aerobics class to “Rebel Yell” by Billy Idol with the time card “then.” Richard Ramirez walks in and says that Billy Idol is the truth. After class, Montana finds the corpse of one of the men in the locker room, and Ric...
Read MoreREVIEW: Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure – Season 3, Episode 1 “Rapunzel’s Return”
Tangled is one of my favorite Disney movies, featuring gorgeous animation, fantastic music, and interesting, well-developed characters. So far, the Disney Channel follow-up, Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure, has been more mixed in quality. However, I had hoped the third and final season would go for a...
Read MoreREVIEW: Disenchantment – Season 1, Part 2 (2019)
When I finished watching Disenchantment Part 1 last August, I was on pins and needles to see where the remainder of the season would take Bean and her friends. What was Dagmar up to, and when would Bean find out? Was Elfo really dead? Who were the two creepy people watching Bean? Suffice it to &hell...
Read MoreREVIEW: American Horror Story – Season 9, Episode 3, “Slashdance”
“Slashdance” opens with Richard Ramirez banging on the door where Brooke, Ray, Chet, and Rita are hiding. Unable to break the door down, he instead smashes through the windows. Ray suggests that the four split up, but everyone else protests. He remarks that it’s just natural selection, and Ram...
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