Thursday, March 10, 2022

Yellowjackets is writing dubious narrative cheques

There was some mild buzz surrounding the Showtime series "Yellowjackets" that was sufficient for the network to immediately order a second season, expected to hit by the end of the year. The series, following the two timelines of a female soccer team crashing in the Canadian wilderness in 1996 and the survivors of same crash in 2021, received critical and audience acclaim for its mix of horror, mystery and survival thriller.

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Three hoorays for imperialism!

I watched "The King's Man" yesterday, the prequel to the Matthew Vaughn vehicles Kingsman and Kingsman 2. In it, an impeccable Ralph Fiennes plays Orlando Oxford, the founder of the British Kingsman secret service agency. It's a fucking mess and tonally the most inconsistent movie I've watched in quite a while.