Category - Reviews

In Our Corner of the World: Gorgeous Anime, Unforgettable Messaging

A Wrinkle in Time: Emotional, Evocative and Totally Unexpected

Annihilation: What If Alien Intelligences Are Experimenting With Our DNA?

Oscars 2018: How To Win Your Oscar Pool This Year

Lady Bird Revisited: Now You Know Why It Sucks So Bad

And the Five Best Erotica Movies to Watch on Valentine’s Day Are ..

Steven Spielberg’s The Post: A Nixon-Era Salvo for The Trump Age

American Made: Director Doug Liman and Tom Cruise Are Great Together

Luiz Bolognesi’s Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury

Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049: Best Sequel Ever?

Subtle, Simple and Simply Lovely: Keiichi Hara’s ‘Miss Hokusai’ [review]

Weirdest Monster Flick Ever: Nacho Vigalondo’s ‘Colossal’

Cole Smithey: Why ‘Mother!’ Could Be The Best Film of 2017 So Far

American Gods: Gorgeous, Arresting and Unapologetically Quirky

Critics Hate Ghost In The Shell. They’re Wrong. And You’ll Love It

Big Screen, Big Audio Dynamite: How To Watch Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dunkirk’

Clear, Brilliant and Bittersweet: Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘After the Storm’ [review]

Mystical, Retro and Fluffy As All Get Out: Lu Chuan’s Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe

An Amazon Echo Tale: Thanks But No Thanks, Alexa [review]

Best Bad Movie Ever? Or Best Bad One? Either Way, ‘Three’ Is Pretty Awesome [review]

All Aboard The Zombie Train: Train to Busan [review]

Still Surreal After All These Years: Donnie Darko (The Director’s Cut)

Dennis D. McDonald: Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress Season 1

The Belko Experiment: Why Your Principles Are Not Worth Dying For

Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ “Kong: Skull Island” Is Almost Perfect. Really. [review]

James Mangold’s Logan: Old Heroes Mix Well With Young Mutants

A Cure for Wellness: Where Venture Capital Meets Vampires [review]

Slick Stabilizer for GoPro: Affordable, Hands-Free Gimbal Action

Donald Trump’s Fatherland: Simone Wendel’s Kings of Kallstadt

Yang Lu’s Xiu Chun Dao: Brotherhood of Blades [review]

Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures: On Racism, the Space Race and Math

Afonso Poyart’s Solace: Why The Reviewers Were Wrong

Where Art, Imagery and Emotions Rule: “A Monster Calls” [review]

It’s A Mess: Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War [review]

Clemson Beat The Dementor of College Football and I’m Still Gloating

Pablo Larrain’s Jackie: Hard To Watch, Hard To Look Away

Excellent Photography, Great Story: Tokyo Trial on Netflix [review]

Where Does Inspiration Come From? The Girl with Ghost Eyes [review]

CES 2017: Robots? Futuristic Cars? Yawn. Show Me A New Samsung Chromebook

Why Critics Are Wrong About “Hail, Caesar!”

Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Sets Feminism Back Light Years

AirSelfie: A $300 Flying Camera Takes Off. But Is It Any Good?

Not Rich Enough? Try These Three Awesome Personal Assistant Apps

Tesla Model 3 vs The Original Macintosh: The Big Different

Video of the Day: Valentine’s Day by David Bowie

Old Punks, New Music: 5 Recent Punk Albums That Don’t Suck At All

Cole Smithey’s Classic Cinema: “Bringing Up Baby” [video essay]

Cole Smithey’s Movie Week: Star Wars Deserves This Review

Bernie Sanders: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly — So Far

Worth The Hype? Fallout 4 [Long Term Review]

Cole Smithey’s Directors Survey: Alfred Hitchcock, Master of Suspense

I Survived The Donald Trump Rally: Here’s What I Have Learned

App of the Day: Lose It for Android [Freeware]

Ecovacs Robotic Vacuum Won Me Over – Deebot D79 Review

Cole Smithey’s Movie Week: “This Is Bossa Nova” [review]

Cole Smithey’s Movie Week: “Anomalisa” Will Trip You Up [review]

Jason Dias: Is Football Really All That Important? [review]

Cole Smithey: “The Hateful 8” Was The Most Stimulating Movie of 2015 [review]

The Worst of Us by Jason Dias [novel excerpt]

Cole Smithey: Here Are The Top Movies Of 2015 [video roundup]

Courtney Farrell’s Bait: Another Post-Apocalypse Beckons [book review]

Go Ahead. See “The Hateful 8.” It’s Your Civic Duty

Terry Gardner: Can Too Much CBS Be A Good Thing? [review]

Cole Smithey’s Movie Week: “Carol” [review]

CES 2016: Innovation Awards Winner Roundup

How To Activate GodMode in Windows 10 (And Not Be Sorry)

Cole Smithey’s Movie Week: “Spectre” [review]

The Wrecking Crew: Pioneers of Rock and Roll [review]

Sandy Berger: Hands On With Amped TAP-R2 [review]

Microsoft Surface Book: Do You Detect A Disturbance in The Force? [review]

Cole Smithey’s Movie Week: Gaspar Noe’s “Love”

The Best War Movie Ever Made Was “Come and See.” Seriously.

The Indispensable Thursday Show with Sable And Dave: Episode 44 [podcast]

Film 101: Check Out These Classic Horror Films

Sinking Into Bloody Ground: Crimson Peak [review]

The Force Awakens: To George Lucas, with Love

Multimedia Adventure in Coheed and Cambria’s “The Color Before the Sun”

“The Martian”: Why Matt Damon, NASA And Science Rock [review]

Why The Fembots in “Ex Machina” Must Seduce to Survive

A Droning Tone Poem, Skip It: Why “Steve Jobs” Sucks

Alice’s Adventures in Underland: The Queen of Stilled Hearts [review]

“Steve Jobs” Movie: Why You’ll Love Loathing The Apple Co-founder

Composite Photography with Adobe Photoshop Mix [review]

Windows Defender: Is It Good, or Just Good Enough?

David Gilmour Keeps Rattling That Lock – Review

Your Email Gets Help from IBM’s Watson Supercomputer

It’s All About Murphy’s Law, Really: The Martian review

App of the Day: GateGuru for Android, iOS, Windows Phone

LIVV Headphones: How Did Ex NFL Star Mark Clayton Get Involved in A Biz Like This?

Pope Ground Zero: Why Pope Francis’s Interfaith Service in NYC Fell So Flat

Movie Week with Cole Smithey: “Sicario” review

Cole Smithey’s Movie Week: Coming Home [review]

B&O Audio Sonically Rocks The HP PC Lineup [review]

Spy Gear Round Up: And Espionage Never Looked Better

Adobe Lightroom Dehaze Clearly Works [review]

Structural Violence: Straight Outta Compton review

Mat Lee: Craft Vapery Keeps Me Stocked And Stoked [review]

Bon Jovi Burning Bridges: Review