Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Chapter Four: Shawn Hill Shawn Hill December 27, 2017 Movies, Reviews Though familiar patterns persist, there’s no way for them not to have started and continue diverging.
Psycho Essentials: Anniversary Special 02 Shawn Hill December 16, 2017 Shot for Shot Over the next few weeks, the Psycho All-Stars share their favorite films that are celebrating anniversaries this year!
5.0 The Leftovers 3.05-3.08 Shawn Hill June 26, 2017 Reviews, TV So what’s left behind is the love story, and it’s one that takes decades.
3.5 The Leftovers 3.02-3.04 Shawn Hill May 28, 2017 Reviews, TV I once thought Reverend Matt, Nora’s miserable brother, was the Job of this show. I was wrong. Everyone on the show is Job. And this season, we’re spending time with each of them in turn, seeing how low...
4.0 The Leftovers 3.01 “The Book of Kevin” Shawn Hill April 27, 2017 Reviews, TV On paper, The Leftovers, is the kind of show I would avoid like the plague.
Legion Chapters 6-8 Shawn Hill April 5, 2017 Shot for Shot, TV In the final three installments, the forces at odds in this story come into open conflict. They do that by returning to places we’ve already been, places adorned by illusion and false memory in each of our...
5.0 Legion Chapters 1-5 Shawn Hill March 21, 2017 Shot for Shot, TV There’s a subtle geometry this show. Okay, maybe not subtle, but blatant. It’s so layered and complicated it’s hard to discern, but circles, triangles, squares are everywhere. On t-shirts. Around windows...
4.0 The Vampire Dairies 8.16 “I Was Feeling Epic” Shawn Hill March 16, 2017 Reviews, TV There was no way for this finale to be something to everyone, while also bringing Elena back home one last time.
3.0 The Vampire Dairies 8.15 “We’re Planning a June Wedding” Shawn Hill March 10, 2017 Reviews, TV In a surprise move, the wedding no one was waiting for goes off without a hitch, and is a beautiful affair.
2.0 The Vampire Dairies 8.14 “It’s Been a Hell of a Ride” Shawn Hill March 3, 2017 Reviews, TV Well, that was interesting. Turns out our two Big Bads were also only Little Bads after all.
3.5 The Vampire Dairies 8.13 “The Lies Will Catch Up with You” Shawn Hill February 24, 2017 Reviews, TV Bonnie and Enzo are totally the best btw.
3.0 The Vampire Dairies 8.12 “What Are You?” Shawn Hill February 17, 2017 Reviews, TV It’s a little late to deepen the mysteries of a confusing, frustrating season, but I suppose signs could indicate the final four episodes will be a sustained blast.
3.0 The Vampire Dairies 8.11 “You Made a Choice to be Good” Shawn Hill February 10, 2017 Reviews, TV The only spark of hope here is that Bonnie’s rageful despair seems to have turned her magic back on.
Women in Horror: Meg Foster Shawn Hill February 4, 2017 Women in Horror Perhaps it was the eyes that ensured she would become a horror queen.
4.5 The Vampire Diaries 8.10 “Nostalgia’s a Bitch” Shawn Hill February 2, 2017 Reviews, TV Ah, here’s that feeling again. That feeling that usually comes in the first third of a season (here not until after the halfway point) of things clicking into place.
3.5 The Vampire Diaries 8.09 “The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch” Shawn Hill January 26, 2017 Reviews, TV We’re about halfway through our final ride, the last thing Ripper wants to do is revisit Mystic Falls, but Damon is called back by Siren Sybil.
4.0 The Vampire Dairies 8.08 “We Have History Together” Shawn Hill January 19, 2017 Reviews, TV As Caroline says, Stefan always comes back from the Ripper phases.
4.0 The Vampire Dairies 8.07 “The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You” Shawn Hill January 5, 2017 Reviews, TV If they can keep the macabre comic tone of this Dark Christmas, they might just go out with style.
3.5 The Vampire Diaries 8.06 “Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell” Shawn Hill December 8, 2016 Reviews, TV Whatever else the sirens are, they’re murderous witches who work for a hell demon.
The Vampire Dairies 8.05 “Coming Home Was a Mistake” Shawn Hill December 1, 2016 Reviews, TV Things are picking up, if in unpredictable directions and without very clear agendas yet.