While some returning shows continued strong, others fell off slightly. Meanwhile, some other new shows completely captivated my attention, paving their way into my top 10. My top 10 TV shows of 2020 are:
Ranking my Top 10 Television Shows of 2020: Which Shows Made The Cut?
It’s hot, it’s steamy, you know you want to (and chances are, you already have: this series has been ULTRA popular on Netflix). It’s deliciously anachronistic, unapologetically salacious, and totally bingeable. The costumes are sumptuous, the dialogue sparkles, the sets are incredible, and the romance is as soapy as it is sexy. Plus, the ensemble […]
Our Winter TV Awards column looks at what Hulu has lurking in its grab bag of programming.
Winter TV Awards: With Hulu’s Wildcards, Anything Could Happen
Is it just me or does it not really feel like a new year so far? Usually, I’m excited about the prospect of entering a new year, but so for this new year feels no different than most […]
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 5 out of 5. We like horror films, don’t we? We enjoy when we get scared, jump out of our seats, get nervous and worried throughout the film. Isn’t it fun when you look around and hear people screaming in the auditorium the same way you do? But that horror, my most valuable […]
Film Review: “The Father” (2020)
Greg Daniels has his hands full with “Utopia” and “Space Force,” but that doesn’t mean he’s unwilling to return to “The Office.”
‘The Office’ Showrunner Greg Daniels Says Reboot Is Not Impossible, as Long as He’s Involved
2021 Movie Draft: Round 1, Pick 4 Featured on SLICETHELIFE.COM Genre: Drama Half Nelson: An Overlooked Indie Gem By Bernie Sauer Mr. Dunne is the middle school teacher every student wants: He’s sharp, funny, sports a cool, unshaved mug, and coaches basketball on the side. By day, he brings out the best in his students […]
2021 Movie Draft: Half Nelson (2006)
During the 70s and early 80s, radio was a common period effect in American cinema. Directors frequently used radio to anchor the Depression-era dramas that proliferated during these years, presenting it as a nostalgia effect with no real presence in the present. That all started to change in the wake of DJ culture, however, and […]
Amerika ‘nın savaş içerisinde olduğu zamanlarda 4 kız kardeşin hayatını anlatan ve kitaptan uyarlanan bir filmden konuşacağız bugün . Bir çok ödüle aday olmuş ve bir çok ödül kazanmış bir yapıt kendisi . Filmde tarihi dokuların çok iyi aktarıldığını düşünüyorum . Zaman kavramında o atlayışlar yani bazen kız kardeşlerin geçmişindeyken ileri ki hallerine gitmek , […]
What is the movie about? :: In an ancient magical temple in another dimension, a powerful wizard named Shazam (Djimon Hounsou) has spent centuries searching for someone pure of heart to grant him his powers and make him his champion. The previous champion was corrupted as he had released the Seven Deadly Sins for personal […]
Jerry Rothwell brings Higashida Naoki’s groundbreaking book to the screen with a palpable sense of what it means to be neurodivergent.
‘The Reason I Jump’ Review: A Humble and Humane Documentary Profile of Nonspeaking Autistic People
In Another Round, filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg once again explores human foibles with humor and cold-eyed insight – and profoundly to boot. And, in Another Round, Mads Mikkelsen delivers one of the year’s finest performances. Mikkelsen plays one of four middle-aged male teachers – each in some sort of personal rut and struggling with career burnout. […]
ANOTHER ROUND: humanity buzzed
Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins in THE FATHER Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman deliver heartbreaking performances in The Father, an unsettling exploration of memory loss. As we meet the elderly Anthony (Hopkins), he is insisting on independence that he can no longer sustain. That makes it hard on his daughter Anne (Colman), who is trying […]
Martin Scorsese had less control over his second film than any other in his career, and as a result it’s his least distinctive release, even if it required a certain amount of ingenuity to bring some of his own style to the table. Based on Ben Reitman’s novel Sister of the Road, Boxcar Bertha is […]
Scorsese: Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Luca Marinelli in MARTIN EDEN A hunky and charming seaman, devoid of education, aspires to become a writer. Sound like Jack London? Indeed London authored the novel Martin Eden, in part modeled after himself. The lush art film Martin Eden is Pietro Marcello’s adaptation, which he set in Italy. Luca Marinelli plays the eponymous protagonist […]
MARTIN EDEN: Jack London in an Italian art film
In the Year of Pandemic, I somehow managed to watch one hundred and fifteen 2020 movies (and another one hundred and forty-nine movies from earlier years). Here are the Best Movies of 2020. Every year, I keep a running list of the best movies […]
Amazon Studio’s Sylvie’s Love is a love story about two people that meet one summer in 1957 and the journey love takes them on. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) is a young woman working at her father’s record store. When she crosses paths with Robert (former NFL Pro Bowler Nnamdi Asomugha) a saxophonist in a jazz quartet, […]
Wonder Woman 1984 is the long awaited sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman. Patty Jenkins returns to direct Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman. Set in 1984, Diana works at the Smithsonian Institute in D.C. She is also secretly protecting the city as Wonder Woman. The film opens with a very campy scene involving Wonder Woman […]
Christopher Landon’s latest film is an addition to the Happy Death Day expanded universe – not because the narratives explicitly link up here (although Landon has suggested they might in the future) but because Freaky continues the post-slasher signature and sensibility that Landon has made so thoroughly his own. At their height, slasher films were […]
Although Danny Boyle directed A Life Less Ordinary in the interim, The Beach is the true spiritual sequel to Trainspotting, which ended with Ewan McGregor’s character walking into a rave future as Underworld’s “Born Sippy” crested over his final monologue. That final scene was effectively a challenge to any future rave cinema, and a challenge […]