Honest reviews across film, television, and tech, with clear verdicts and enough detail to decide whether something is worth your time and money.
Two brothers, a 1967 Impala, and a road that runs for 327 episodes. Supernatural is the show I have watched more times than any other, and it also has a very clear finish line that arrives ten seasons before the credits do. Here is what it does right, and where it stops.
A prison riot in ankle-deep mud, a car chase with a fistfight inside one of the cars, and a crime saga that finally got the funding it needed. The Raid 2 is bigger than the film that made it possible, and better at almost everything except knowing when to stop.
Pencak Silat, unbroken long takes, and a hero who can actually lose. Gareth Evans built The Raid out of a shelved crime saga and $1.1 million, then delivered the fight choreography every action film since has been measured against. Here is what holds it together.