Gender and Star Trek: Loving the Alien Shawn Hill January 22, 2019 Shot for Shot Star Trek is about who we are are in society, but that means what we’re allowed to do and be as individuals.
One More Black Panther Review Round-Up Rick Shingler, Shawn Hill February 22, 2018 Movies, Reviews This world is far bigger and more interesting than we can possibly imagine. And now, so is the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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!
BLADE RUNNER 2049: The Sad and Lonely World of the Imagination John E. Meredith, Nate Zoebl, Shawn Hill October 9, 2017 Movies, Reviews In 1982, Ridley Scott brought to the screen a vision of the future that changed the way we looked at science fiction cinema forever. Blade Runner was loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids...
Remembering Harry Dean Stanton (1926-2017) Adam Barraclough, Dan Lee, Laura Akers, Marsha Nicholson, Paul Brian McCoy, Shawn Hill September 21, 2017 Schlock & Awe This past weekend, we lost one of America’s most iconoclastic character actors, Harry Dean Stanton.
IT (2017) Nate Zoebl, Shawn Hill, The Final Girl September 11, 2017 Movies, Reviews IT is breaking records all over the place by cashing in on the zeitgeist of 80s nostalgia, clown fears, and jump scares.
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...
Alien: Covenant (2017) Adam Barraclough, Nate Zoebl, Paul Brian McCoy, Shawn Hill May 22, 2017 Movies, Reviews The Psycho Drive-In All-Stars now have some things to say about the latest film in one of Hollywood’s most enduring and important science fiction franchises.
Countdown to Covenant: Prometheus (2012) Adam Barraclough, Paul Brian McCoy, Peterson Hill, Shawn Hill May 19, 2017 Shot for Shot But the Engineers, beautifully frustrating misconception or not, aren’t the reason to see Prometheus.
Countdown to Covenant: Alien 3 (1992) Adam Barraclough, Paul Brian McCoy, Rick Shingler, Shawn Hill May 17, 2017 Shot for Shot Alien 3 catches a lot of hell from fans and it’s not all entirely undeserved.
Countdown to Covenant: Alien (1979) Adam Barraclough, Peterson Hill, Shawn Hill May 15, 2017 Shot for Shot Alien is Scott’s best film. It is a work of unbearable suspense that is made by a true master of his craft.
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.
First Looks Second Thoughts: Star Wars: The Last Jedi Adam Barraclough, John E. Meredith, Paul Brian McCoy, Peterson Hill, Shawn Hill April 17, 2017 First Looks... Second Thoughts, Trailers On Friday the first trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi premiered and reactions were decidedly mixed.
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.