Recommends7/29/20Jul 29SaveRecommends7/29/20RecommendsOWN’s David Makes Man is a bracing tribute to Blackness and boyhoodJoshua Alston4The phrase “like nothing else on television” has earned its rightful place on the master list of hackneyed critical…
Best Of5/14/20May 1412Best Of5/14/20Best OfThe 25 best horror movies since 2000Nathan Rabin, Nick Wanserski, Benjamin Mercer, and 10 more2.3KAsk horror-movie buffs to name their favorite decade for the genre, and you’ll likely receive a variety of answers.…
Peak Season4/15/20Apr 15SavePeak Season4/15/20Peak SeasonTo save itself, Homeland had to get over the loss of its leading manJoshua Alston23Previously on Homeland…
TV Reviews2/13/20Feb 13 2020SaveTV Reviews2/13/20B-TV ReviewsWar Of The Worlds gives a quietly compelling makeover to the iconic invasion storyJoshua Alston62There’s never an inopportune moment to revisit The War Of The Worlds, the seminal H.G. Wells novel that’s been…
Reviews10/16/19Oct 16 2019SaveReviews10/16/19C-ReviewsWounds wants to sell you a cursed smartphone, but the service sucksJoshua Alston24The horror genre loves awful humans, the kind of arrogant, self-obsessed meat puppets that simply demand to be…
TV Reviews5/31/19May 31 20191TV Reviews5/31/19A-TV ReviewsAva DuVernay's bruising Central Park Five series is an elegant elegy to young lives lost to the systemJoshua Alston28If the heart-rending saga of the Central Park Five didn’t exist, Dick Wolf would have had to invent it. After all,…
Reviews9/28/18Sep 28 20183Reviews9/28/18BReviewsPolice brutality takes many different forms in the quietly powerful Monsters And MenJoshua Alston2The public policy around police-involved shootings of unarmed African-Americans hasn’t progressed much since civil…
Reviews9/7/18Sep 7 20182Reviews9/7/18B+ReviewsEthan Hawke introduces an unsung country renegade in the intimate biopic BlazeJoshua Alston13Of the many challenges writer-director Ethan Hawke dealt himself in dramatizing the life of unsung country musician…
TV Reviews5/16/18May 16 20182TV Reviews5/16/18ATV ReviewsDre and Bow confront their demons in Black-ish's most challenging season finale yetJoshua Alston26First things first: Thank God and Channing Dungey for a forthcoming fifth season of Black-ish.
TV Reviews5/11/18May 11 20184TV Reviews5/11/18A-TV ReviewsAs Atlanta’s Robbin’ Season comes to an end, Earn pulls off a daring reverse heistJoshua Alston83Of the many compliments that can be hurled at Atlanta, the highest has to do with the show’s tendency to…
TV Reviews5/4/18May 4 20182TV Reviews5/4/18B+TV ReviewsAtlanta can be anything it damn well pleases, even a coming-of-age period pieceJoshua Alston64“FUBU” has a vestigial quality, which probably sounds like an insult, but it’s not intended to. Perhaps it’s because …
TV Reviews4/27/18Apr 27 20182TV Reviews4/27/18A-TV ReviewsAnother chaotic road trip leads to a fateful confrontation in Atlanta Robbin' SeasonJoshua Alston86Nine episodes into Atlanta Robbin’ Season, each of the four central characters has lived their own surreal horror…
Video4/20/18Apr 20 2018SaveVideo4/20/18 VideoA look at 10 episodes that showcase the highs and lows of Showtime’s WeedsBaraka Kaseko, Marah Eakin, and Joshua Alston14Set in the fictional Los Angeles suburb of Agrestic, California—a town remarkably lenient on marijuana use—Weeds…
TV Reviews4/20/18Apr 20 20184TV Reviews4/20/18ATV ReviewsKeeping it real goes wrong for Alfred in a brilliant, harrowing AtlantaJoshua Alston42It’s hard to tell if anything will ever truly stick in the Atlanta universe. At the risk of belaboring the point,…
TV Reviews4/13/18Apr 13 20181TV Reviews4/13/18TV ReviewsVan has fake people showing fake love to her in a very Atlanta New Year's EveJoshua Alston36Van is, now as ever, Atlanta’s most and least accessible character. She’s certainly been the most relatable, in that…
TV Reviews4/6/18Apr 6 20183TV Reviews4/6/18ATV ReviewsWith Darius behind the wheel, Atlanta becomes an American horror storyJoshua Alston111“Teddy Perkins” is the sixth episode of Atlanta’s second season, a point by which most television shows have become…
TV Reviews3/30/18Mar 30 20181TV Reviews3/30/18B-TV ReviewsIn an underwhelming Atlanta, Alfred is subjected to the most unkindest cut of allJoshua Alston68Atlanta goes heavy on the callbacks, which is to be expected of any sitcom that strives to build its own alternate…
TV Reviews3/23/18Mar 23 20182TV Reviews3/23/18B+TV ReviewsEarn and Van come to a dead end in Atlanta's oddest tourist destinationJoshua Alston55In most durable couples, there’s a dancer and a spectator, the person anxiously waiting for “Hot In Herre” to play…
TV Reviews3/15/18Mar 15 20182TV Reviews3/15/18A-TV ReviewsMoney can buy love in Atlanta, unless you're EarnJoshua Alston46The more things change, the more they stay the same. That’s especially true in Atlanta, a show that’s most…
TV Reviews3/8/18Mar 8 20181TV Reviews3/8/18A-TV ReviewsThere's no honor among hustlers during Atlanta Robbin' SeasonJoshua Alston33To clear up what appears to be a common misconception I’ve seen in most coverage of Robbin’ Season, the concept…