Stan and Ollie Review

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This is an advance review. Stan & Ollie opens in limited release December 28.

It’s hard to articulate just how successful and famous comedians Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were in their heyday. Together, Laurel & Hardy starred in over 100 films, many of them box office smashes. Their cartoonish personae and impish schtick, with the rotund Hardy constantly at the receiving end of the sticklike Laurel’s oblivious gags, fit in practically any situation. They were master comedians working at the top of their game.

But all stars must fall. Jon S. Baird’s new biopic Stan & Ollie finds the two legends at the end of their careers, still as funny as ever but struggling to find an audience now that comedy has moved on, and acts like Abbott & Costello rule the entertainment world. It sounds melancholy, and sometimes it is, but Baird has nothing but warmth in his heart for these two comedy maestros. The film is as funny and charming a Hollywood biopic as you’re ever likely to find.

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Daredevil: Season 3 Finale Review

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Warning: The following contains spoilers for Daredevil Season 3, Episode 13. If you need a refresher on where we left off, check out our review of Season 3, episode 12.

Well this is certainly a crazed, charged blaze of glory!

Daredevil vs. Bullseye vs. Kingpin? Are you kidding me?

All while Poindexter's trying to kill Vanessa and Matt keeps stoping him? This is pure malicious magic.

And bloody magic too. In fact, funny to note, as soon as you see both Fisk and Vanessa wearing sheer white (with that trademark rose as a final touch) you could almost smell that things were going to get messy. Either Vanessa was going to get killed, spilling her blood all over him while she dies in his arms, or Fisk was going to kill someone else and get that sinister splatter all over him. Hell, he could even spill celebratory nuptial meatballs all over himself. Somehow that garb was going to get ruined. Fisk, at his most powerful, at the happiest he's ever been, was going to face tragedy.

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Daredevil: Season 3, Episode 12: "One Last Shot" Review

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Warning: The following contains spoilers for Daredevil Season 3, Episode 12. If you need a refresher on where we left off, check out our review of Season 3, episode 11.

"I hurt people. My pride hurt people. And I need to make that right again."

Here we are at the penultimate Season 3 episode of Daredevil - perhaps even the penultimate series episode of Daredevil, if Netflix's recent Marvel series cancelations are meant to signal something dire - and...well, things didn't quite work out for our heroes.

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Netflix's Making a Murderer Can't Justify a Second Season

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Note: this is a mostly spoiler-free review of Making a Murderer Season 2, which is now available to stream on Netflix.

It's not often a true crime documentary becomes nationwide watercooler fodder, but that's the power of Making a Murderer. This Netflix original series arrived in 2015 and exposed millions of viewers to the tragic story of Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey, both of whom are currently serving out life sentences for the rape and murder of Teresa Halbach. As with HBO's The Jinx and the podcast Serial, it arrived at just the right time to tap into the public's current fascination with true crime and controversial murder trials.

However, much of what fueled the popularity of Making a Murderer is that it shed light on a story many viewers were wholly unfamiliar with. Three years later, each new development in Avery and Dassey's respective appeals process makes news headlines. The question is whether there's enough uncovered ground remaining to justify a second full season of the documentary. Unfortunately, Season 2 suggests that Making a Murderer would have been better served following Serial's example and focusing on a new case entirely.

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