DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS is a fun spectacle with a hollow center
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Watching DSMM is an exercise in whiplash, going from being delighted to frustrated across the entire runtime.
In its finale, WandaVision searches for catharsis
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, The Red Herring
With mind-based powers, Wanda’s magic included, that often involves things that are even more morally and ethically tense.
Wandavision Episodes 7 and 8 remain focused on Wanda's grief
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, The Red Herring
Seeing Wanda’s grief through her own eyes is probably the best justification for this series existing.
Wandavision Episodes 5 and 6 are all about family
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, The Red Herring
To me, the highest compliment I can give WandaVision so far is that it is leaning into the episodic nature of television.
Wandavision Episodes 3 and 4 pull back the curtain on our favorite powered couple
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, The Red Herring
Wandavision...now in color! With its third episode, the show moves along the sitcom timeline into the late 1960s and early 1970s, more Here’s Lucy than I Love Lucy.
WandaVision: Episode 1 & 2
by Ryan Silberstein, The Red Herring
The first two episodes of WandaVision treat the classic American artform of the sitcom as something to be replicated, to delightful effect.
A Streetcar Full of Lies
by Melissa Strong
A Streetcar Named Desire is a hotbed of deception, full of characters lying to one another and to themselves. Viewers may feel deceived too as they piece together the story of the indelible Blanche DuBois and her relationships with her sister Stella and the men in her life. Streetcar is a masterwork of American drama and an important movie that continues to resonate in the twenty-first century. Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) is a case in point: this well-received drama/thriller reinterprets characters and rehashes situations right out of Streetcar. Wait, what? Before we go there, let us first examine Streetcar’s lies.
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