Dec 10, 2022 Cultural Diet The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special by James Gunn (2022) The focus here is mainly on Drax and Mantis’ exploits as they try to kidnap Kevin Bacon. The other …
Dec 9, 2022 Cultural Diet The English, Season One (2022) This Amazon/BBC western mini-series tries to pack a lot of storyline into six episodes, maybe too m…
Dec 6, 2022 Cultural Diet Trevor Noah: I Wish You Would by David Paul Meyer (2022) As witty and charming as you’d expect from Noah. He does a fun variation of his classic “Black Hitl…
Dec 2, 2022 Cultural Diet The Peripheral, Season One (2022) There were times when I didn’t know what was going on: there were a few too many plot threads and t…
Dec 1, 2022 December 2022’s Best Streaming Titles: Zoolander, Slow Horses, The Royal Tenenbaums, Blade Runner, Knives Out Ben Stiller’s fashion satire, Gary Oldman’s spy thriller, Wes Anderson’s dysfunctional family, replicants, Benoit Blanc’s latest mystery, and more.
Nov 23, 2022 Cultural Diet Andor, Season One (2022) The best thing to happen to Star Wars in years. The Mandalorian has Baby Yoda, The Bad Batch is enj…
Nov 1, 2022 November 2022’s Best Streaming Titles: Guardians of the Galaxy, Harry Potter, Enola Holmes, Trevor Noah, Weird Al Star-Lord, the Boy Who Lived, Millie Bobby Brown, stand-up comedy, the Weird One, and more.
Oct 27, 2022 Cultural Diet Star Trek: Lower Decks, Season Three (2022) I still enjoy Lower Decks’ poking fun of Star Trek tropes, but this season didn’t click for me as m…
Oct 19, 2022 The Rings of Power, Season One: Flawed, yet Faithful to the Spirit of Tolkien’s Mythos Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation is not without issues, but its heart (and sense of ambition) is in the right place.
Oct 17, 2022 Cultural Diet The Rings of Power, Season One (2022) I had some quibbles with this first season, due mainly to its attempts at juggling four different s…
Oct 4, 2022 Winter Is Coming: An Introduction to Game of Thrones Why should you care about yet another fantasy series? Jason Morehead explains why the upcoming HBO series is different.
Oct 1, 2022 October 2022’s Best Streaming Titles: Spectacular Spider-Man, Mysterious Benedict Society, Godzilla, O Brother, Where Art Thou? Spidey, Disney+‘s eccentric family adventure, the Big G himself, the Soggy Bottom Boys, and more.
Sep 28, 2022 Doctor Who’s Doctrine, Part 3: Exterminating Evil A darkness and sense of tragedy lurk on Doctor Who’s edges, ready to storm in without warning.
Sep 17, 2022 Leave Baby Bear and His Doll Alone Making silly, absurd claims that confuse what the Bible expects of us and what our cultural context expects of us will do no good.
Sep 16, 2022 Filmwell’s “Favored TV Moments of 2012” As a companion piece of sorts to CaPC’s own list of favorite television shows from the last year, check out this list of “favored TV moments” by my Filmwell colleague M. Leary.
Sep 15, 2022 Cultural Diet Paper Girls, Season One (2022) I wanted to like this more than I actually did. The story — based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chi…
Sep 14, 2022 Reality TV: Making Western Civilization Smarter and Better? As a culture, we enjoy the spectacle and self-righteousness too much, and reality TV finds it too profitable to do anything but feed that.
Sep 14, 2022 Fox News Airs Suicide on Live Television This isn’t the first time that gruesome, violent footage has made it into a primetime news broadcast.
Sep 14, 2022 Mixed Signals: This Year’s Best Super Bowl Ad Apple got a promotion for their device that was rooted in the here and now, in the reality of a heightened Super Bowl moment.
Sep 13, 2022 What’s the deal with The Rings of Power’s opening credits? The series’ opening credits are a clever, and meaningful, Tolkien deep cut.