Posts Tagged ‘Harry Treadaway’
Film Review – Gringo
If you have seen the trailers for Gringo, the cast is appealing, and the kidnap caper plot looks entertaining. The use of a marijuana drug in the plot may lead you to think this is a stoner comedy, but that is far from correct. The drug is…
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TV Review – Penny Dreadful Episode 8 “Grand Guignol” (Season Finale)
“I believe in curses. I believe in demons. I believe in monsters. Do you?” The lines have been uttered before, but it is fitting that the season finale of Penny Dreadful ended with a response to the lines uttered by Vanessa Ives (Eva Green). “Grand Guignol”…
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TV Review – Penny Dreadful Episode 7 “Possession”
“What’s wrong with her?” “She has been possessed by The Devil.” “Oh, f*** me.” Episode seven of Penny Dreadful titled “Possession” begins where last week’s episode left off. Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) arrived back home to Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton) and displayed a certain levitation trick.…
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TV Review – Penny Dreadful Episode 6 “What Death Can Join Together”
Coming off last week’s flashback episode, “What Death Can Join Together” returns to the current storyline, but we now have more frame of reference to what both Sir Malcolm Murray (Timothy Dalton) and Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) are up to in the search for Mina…
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TV Review – Penny Dreadful Episode Three “Resurrection”
Penny Dreadful Episode 3 “Resurrection” continues to build on the supernatural lore of the previous two episodes while introducing a couple of new elements.
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TV Review – Penny Dreadful Episode Two “Séance”
Before moving on to the second episode of Penny Dreadful, “Séance,” I revisited the first episode since I had not seen it since March at SXSW. The episode is no longer as dark as the print we saw at SXSW and more details can be…
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SXSW TV Review – Showtime’s Penny Dreadful
Penny Dreadful is Showtime’s newest original series. Episode 1 had its world premiere at SXSW for a crowd at the Vimeo Theater. Having seen the show’s trailer, I was intrigued enough to take a break from the many films I had seen for an hour…
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SIFF Film Review – Cockneys vs Zombies
Zombie movies are a dead genre—or perhaps even an undead genre (despite being dead, they just keep coming and coming and coming). It wasn’t always this way. I fondly remember a time when I would look forward to a new zombie movie, when the zombie…
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