“WandaVision” is a walk down memory lane of bygone era sitcoms, with each episode set in a different show and tone.
Author: Bill Watters
Bill Watters
Bill Watters is a child of the late 70s- he walked into a theater to watch Star Wars, and emerged to become a lifelong fan of cinema and television. Spending nearly a decade as a projectionist, he fell into the Silicon Valley dot-com boom and became a codemonkey for a range of game companies. These days he's a frequent speaker, moderator, and panelist at pop-culture events and conventions, as well as a prolific film and television critic and genre news writer. He is also a member critic of both the San Francisco Film Critics Circle and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. In addition to his writing, he is also a photojournalist and can be found on Getty Images.
News of the tribulations of the conservative social media network Parler continues to unfold. In the days following the insurrection against the capital building in Washington D.C., tech companies have been rapidly cutting their support for outgoing US President Donald Trump and his sycophants. First, Twitter and Facebook suspended Trump’s social media accounts (then later changed the lockout from a suspension to permanently banned). More recently as Alt-Right conservatives began flocking to Parler (the social media network with the tagline of “speak freely”), both Google and then Apple removed the mobile app version of the service from their stores. While…
After the insurrection in Washington D.C. earlier this week, tech companies are severing their support of Alt-Right/Conservative social media network, Parler. Dealing perhaps the hardest blow is Amazon, sending Parler a letter informing them that the company will cease allowing Parler to utilize their cloud platforms to host the service. While the social media network which features the slogan, “speak freely,” has long been used as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook, especially since Twitter had taken to flagging Donald Trump’s Tweets as misleading or factually incorrect. However since the attack on the capital building, and Twitter and Facebook afterwards…
While we’ve known for a while that Showtime has had a revival of the long-running hit series “Dexter” in the works, it’s been relatively thin on information on who would be in the cast beyond the return of Michel C. Hall as the titular Dexter. According to Variety, “Highlander’s” Kurgan, Clancy Brown, will be joining the cast as Kurt Caldwell, an unofficial mayor of the small town of Iron Lake, New York. And today is actually Brown’s birthday! Variety’s description of the character showcases him as: He’s realized the American dream by going from driving big rigs, just like his…
“Greenland” is one of those quiet films that sneaks in under the radar. Whether it was STX just not wanting to put much marketing push behind it or what, I’d heard literally nothing about it until just before it premiered. It actually opened in other countries back in mid-August, which might have diluted the domestic messaging, which is a shame because it’s actually really very good. Why is that such a surprise? Well if we recall back to the before times (in this case 2017), Gerard Butler’s last “the sky is falling” genre film was “Geostorm.” And if you’re one…
We last saw George Clooney in a science fiction film as a hallucination of Sandra Bullock’s. This time in “The Midnight Sky,” he’s no hallucination, but the audience may wonder what is really wonder what is real anyway. In 2049, something has gone horribly wrong and everyone on the Earth is facing certain death. It’s never expressly spelled out, but radiation is referenced as being what’s killing everyone off. Since it’s largely a naturalistic film, it’s likely a solar flare event or something similar has occurred. Set in Antarctica, Clooney plays Dr. Augustine Lofthouse, a brilliant planetary researcher who is…
As it turns out, Netflix has delivered one of the most singularly delightful and charming presents of the holiday season with “Bridgerton.” There’s few networks out there sporting a myriad of holiday romance films, but if you want something that just is both wonderfully crafted, staged, and performed- then once you’re done watching “Wonder Woman 1984,” switch over to Netflix and dive into “Bridgerton.” It’s a period piece set during the Napoleonic era (1813 to be specific), and is based on a series of novels by Julia Quinn. To be clear, many romances set during the Regency tend to be…
We may have found the absolute WORST film to come out in 2020. Bruce Willis, Thomas Jane star in “Breach.”
If you are down for a tense cat and mouse- settle down, turn off the lights, and queue up “Hunter Hunter.”
“Wonder Woman 1984” hits HBO Max on Christmas Day, and we think it has big heart, with plenty of 80s comics camp.