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Preacher Series Finale Recap: “We’re Not Getting Away with It That Easily”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:00:55 +0000

Depending on your viewpoint, that a show as insane and blasphemous as Preacher could last four seasons on the air is either a miracle or a sacrilege. Fans who stuck with it to the end were treated to a wild finale that pulls no punches in its delightful commitment to offending anything a viewer might...

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Ad Astra Review: Pitt Reaches for the Stars

Jason Gorber — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:00:31 +0000

Ad Astra, director James Gray’s beautifully realized ode to parental connection and our ambitions to explore, checks off a panoply of references – everything from obvious science fiction fodder like 2001, Solaris, Gravity, and Alien, to films like Apocalypse Now, where the metaphorical journey up river takes our voyagers to the heart of darkness at...

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Preacher 4.01 & 4.02 Recap: “Guess We All Gotta Die Sometime”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 12:00:06 +0000

A TV series as defiantly weird as AMC’s Preacher couldn’t possibly last forever. For many reasons, the fact that it survived more than a single year is pretty amazing. Back this week for its fourth and officially final season, the show seems determined to go out with a bang. Aside from periodic check-ins, I don’t...

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‘Preacher’ 3.01 Recap: “The More It Hurts, the More It Helps”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 12:00:07 +0000

Typically one of the craziest and most gonzo surreal series on television, AMC’s ‘Preacher’ opens its third season in an uncharacteristically restrained manner. Season 2 ended on a cliffhanger with Tulip (Ruth Negga) gunned down and left for dead, and Jesse (Dominic Cooper) stopping Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) from saving her by turning her into a...

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‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 5.16 Recap: “You Die More Than Anybody I’ve Ever Met”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:00:07 +0000

In a move I personally find surprising, ABC reportedly may have renewed ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ for a sixth season despite weak ratings* – and despite the obvious creative ennui of the current season. In the meantime, Oscar nominee Ruth Negga returns for a very quick cameo. *See the Comments below about the renewal news not...

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‘Preacher’ 2.01 & 2.02 Recap: “Unlucky Start Is All”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 12:00:45 +0000

During its first season, AMC’s ‘Preacher’ was a go-for-broke crazy and sometimes hugely entertaining supernatural action comedy, but it was also wildly uneven, needlessly confusing, and often enormously frustrating. The second season brings a change of setting, a fresh start and, with luck, a new focus on buckling down to tell a somewhat coherent story...

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‘Loving’ Review: Heartfelt Historical Honesty

Philip Brown — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:00:10 +0000

‘Loving’ is one of those true life inspirational stories that tend to come out around Oscar season and coast by on message rather than content. Thankfully, this is one of the few examples that lives up to its origin and has quietly become one of the more important films of the year. A big reason...

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TIFF Journal: ‘Loving’

Philip Brown — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:00:26 +0000

‘Loving’ is one of those important historical dramas about groundbreaking folks who changed America. It’s also an incredibly intimate character study of two simple people uncertain of why their pure love could cause such wild controversy. The ways the movie stays so small and human make the latest feature from Jeff Nichols (‘Take Shelter’, ‘Midnight...

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‘Preacher’ Pilot Recap: “God Doesn’t Hold Grudges”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 24 May 2016 16:00:23 +0000

The AMC network has hyped its new comic book adaptation ‘Preacher’ so aggressively over the past few months that I couldn’t help approaching it with skepticism. Something about the promos and commercials gave off an uncomfortable ‘Into the Badlands‘ vibe, but I was intrigued enough by the property’s origins to give it a shot. After...

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‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 1.05 Recap: “Thank You for Your Participation”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:00:22 +0000

This may be a record. ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ had another reasonably entertaining and decidedly not terrible episode this week. That’s two in a row now. Could there be hope for this show after all? In episode ‘The Girl in the Flower Dress’, we learn that S.H.I.E.L.D. keeps an index of all identified people with unnatural...

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