If you’re like a lot of fans, you’ve developed a strained relationship with AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” Based on a graphic novel of the same name created by Robert Kirkman, the show was ...
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Why “The Walking Dead” Dies With Carl Grimes
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TV Core-ner: 10 Of The Most Underrated Modern TV Shows
It’s that time of year again. The glow of the holidays has passed, but your yearning for cuddling entertainment still rages on like your conservative uncle. Fear not. There’s no need to re-watch “Friends” this ...
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Saoirse Ronan Pulls An Ellen Page In “Lady Bird:” A Critical Exchangecore
Growing up is hard to do. Set in the sleepy suburbs of Sacramento, Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird” really captures the anxiety and angst involved in shedding your adolescence and plunging into adulthood. With a previously unachieved ...
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Critical Exchangecore: Colin Farrell Reckons With “A Sacred Deer”
We’re back with a fresh Critical Exchangecore hot off the presses! Director Yorgos Lanthimos (who helmed “The Lobster” last year)’s “The Killing Of A Sacred Deer” tells the tale of how a successful surgeon, played by ...
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TV Core-ner: “The Walking Dead” – “Monsters” (Season 8, Episode 3) Review
I’m not sure what Kool-Aid “The Walking Dead” editors have been drinking, but I’m calling for an intervention. Between the disorienting switches in slow-mo flash forwards and the shameless cliffhangers, “TWD” is starting to feel more like ...
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TV Core-ner: “The Walking Dead” – “The Damned” (Season 8, Episode 2) Review
Just when you thought “The Walking Dead” couldn’t push us further into the land of grey areas, we got Gracie. The show is constantly asking the philosophical question of whether our compassion or mercy is what ...
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TV Core-ner: “The Walking Dead” – “Mercy” (Season 8, Episode 1) Review
“My mercy prevails over my wrath.” These were the words mentally whispered by Rick Grimes as he delivered his a rallying speech to the Survivors. As we march through “The Walking Dead” season eight premiere, ...
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Brynner on the Loose in “Westworld” ’73: A Critical Exchangecore
It may surprise you to learn, dear reader, that HBO’s blockbuster smash series “Westworld,” about to embark on its second season, was actually a remake of a 1973 Michael Crichton/Yul Brynner sci-fi classic. Armani Barron ...
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“Atomic” Bore: A Critical Exchangecore
Armani Barron and Alex Kirschenbaum dissect whether or not the sleekly-marketed Charlize Theron retro-spy adventure “Atomic Blonde” is actually cool… or if it was all just a disappointing tease (the name of this post might ...
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The DCEU Finally Captures Some “Wonder”
Over the past two weeks, your trusty Filmcore panel of (in alphabetical order) Armani Barron, Alex Kirschenbaum, and Emily NS saw Patty Jenkins’s “Wonder Woman,” the best movie in the DC Extended Universe that began ...