by Alexander Sharp | Jul 18, 2023
Rating Sometimes a high-concept setting is all it takes to make a film. The Bad Batch imagines a world in which America fences off a large chunk of Texas desert and turns it into a penal colony. It doesn’t bother with explaining the political or cultural...
by Alexander Sharp | Jul 15, 2023
Rating I never intended to see Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. When it came out, it just looked cheesy. Then my stepfather told me it was fantastic, so I knew it had to be crap. This was a man who thought Pearl Harbor was the greatest film ever made....
by Alexander Sharp | Jul 6, 2023
Sorry the writing isn’t great in this one. Hopefully the ideas make up for it. In the future when I have more time I’ll brush this thing up. Rating My wife asked me to go see a romantic comedy with her, which I thought was weird, because I thought the...
by Alexander Sharp | Jun 16, 2023
Political horseshoe? Nolan chart? Political compass? When creating an abstract theory of politics, the political highway rules them all. The two-party political system in the United States is like a single roadway on a four-lane highway. That metaphor sounded less...
by Alexander Sharp | May 21, 2023
Fargo Season 1 Fargo Season 2 Fargo Season 3 Fargo Season 4 Fargo Season 5 Rating For seasons 1 & 2 of Fargo, I pontificated about the artistic failings of those beautiful train wrecks. No more! But, for the sake of completeness, I need to write something about...
