Reviews, rants & poetry

It is unfortunate and sad that despite the 16 Emmy nominations and several awards that Misha Green’s Lovecraft Country has won, this deeply spiritual and impactful series doesn’t get the accolades and buzz that it rightly deserves. I consider the work to be one of the best tv shows to grace our screens in the entire last decade and feel that it is a disservice to fans that until now, no other tv station or streaming service has indicated interest to pick up the story and expand it to at least two more seasons. The 2020 supernatural, Sci-Fi, horror and historical TV drama was developed for television from Matt Ruff’s novel, which was originally written to satirize the popular racist narratives common in the author, H.P Lovecraft’s mythologies, hence, the title of the book. It is this “protest novel” that the incredibly talented writer and director, Misha Green reimagines into this spiritual, educative work of high entertainment art value.  source: HBO.  Set in mid-50’s Chicag...

Image credit: Amazon Prime.  Directed by Michael Pearce and written by Joe Barton, this 2021 film stars, Riz Ahmed, Lucian-River Chauhan, Aditya Geddada as main characters, Malik Khan, Jay and Bobby Khan who the story mainly revolves around. Malik, a divorced marine corps veteran decides to take his children outside of their hometown in California, on an unexpected and unplanned road trip. Things get out of hand when the family gets stopped by a police officer and a misunderstanding ensues that leads to several lethal encounters that makes the kids question their father's true intentions, motivations, and sanity as the film progresses.  A lot of sci-fi lovers might definitely feel ripped off by the end of this film due to the massive plot twist revolving alien invasions this film hints at in the beginning and how it's tied in to PTSD, which I really would not like to spoil because it made the viewing experience more enjoyable for me as I figured it out earlier on in the film. ...

Photo credit: Netflix.    There seems to be a lot of rave reviews regarding how wonderful this piece of pretend satire is and I can’t help but wonder why that is, especially when you consider the amount of gloom and doom that saturated the media during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, and how none of all that drama was even replicated here. The failure to exploit the range of political excesses displayed across different camps makes it hard to find reenactments of right-wing, political figures rejecting science, and ignorant celebrities milking political causes for clout, (which this film is mainly about) funny for long.  Satires are intelligent but this 2021 film by writer/director, Adam Mckay in my opinion, was just an unoriginal farce greatly inspired by MAGA, America’s right-wing politics during the coronavirus pandemic and the general American middleclass society’s obsession with capitalism. Only this time, it pitches as a replacement, the gloomy story of a scie...

photo credit: Sundance.  “I yelled at him,  You have to start working, if you can’t be happy at least, you can do well.  He screamed at me, I don’t want to be happy, I don’t want to do well.  Why? I yelled. Why? Then we were screaming at each other. We were both so sad and we were afraid. I don’t know why, but then he said,  get out before I hit you, get out before I beat the shit out of you. I swear to God, it was terrifying. I went to my room and then I locked the door. Gail! I wished I had let him. I wish I had said, okay, hit me. You hit me sweetheart for as long as you would ever need. Because then, I would have known. I would have known who he truly was.”  A debut of film writer/director, Fran Kranz released in January 2022 by Bleecker Street, MASS stars Jason Issacs, Ann Dowd, Martha Plimpton, and Reed Birney as parents who agree to meet at a neutral venue, an episcopalian church, six years after a tragedy involving the murder of the child of one...