What Is Acorn TV? British television has a storied legacy of producing enjoyable programs. For Anglophiles and television fans it can be challenging to keep up with the incredible amount of great old and new shows that do not air on PBS or have a partner station or streaming service. Acorn TV solves many... Continue Reading →
As the name would suggest, Americana is a vast music genre. So many songs have emanated from bars, honky-tonks, and recording studios that it can be hard to wrap your head around the entirety of any music scene. The podcast Walking The Floor interviews such unique guests that each episode is a musical education that... Continue Reading →
As the name would suggest, Americana is a vast music genre. So much music has emanated from different bars, honky-tonks, and recording studios that it can be hard to wrap your head around the entirety of any music scene. The podcast Walking The Floor interviews such a unique number of artists that each episode is... Continue Reading →
Have you ever watched a movie that is so bad it is actually good? You would be hard-pressed to find a flick that offends cinema as grotesquely as the crude black comedy/horror movie ThansKilling. The micro budget movie follows a fowl-mouthed demonic turkey who terrorizes a group of college kids. The turkey and props are... Continue Reading →
This post contains spoilers of the CBC and Netflix miniseries Alias Grace The CBC miniseries Alias Grace is a phenomenally written period drama that immerses its audience in the story of a servant who has been convicted of killing her employer and his housekeeper. From the beginning of the first episode the audience knows... Continue Reading →
This post contains spoilers referencing the first season of Ozark. This summer Netflix released Ozark, a crime drama that follows a family from Chicago to the Ozarks as patriarch Marty Byrde tries to pay off a sudden debt to a drug lord. The fish-out-of-water series follows the Byrdes as they struggle to assimilate to the... Continue Reading →
Before Tiffany Haddish walked onstage for her groundbreaking monologuelast night, the first four episodes of the forty-third season of Saturday Night Live had been mostly forgettable. Episodes hosted by Ryan Gosling, Gal Gadot, Kumail Nanjiani, and Larry David had been lifeless, weird, or just not funny. A breakout star of the 2017 summer comedy Girls... Continue Reading →
On October 27 Netflix released the second season of Stranger Things. One of the best and most bingeable television shows of 2016, the captivating Science Fiction drama returned with the same group of kids from Hawkins, Indiana. The unique series could have been mere lightening in a bottle, but following the gang around as they... Continue Reading →
