Author: Anthony Florez

Currently residing in Austin, Texas, Anthony Florez enjoys unironically blogging about film, television, and food. An eight year veteran of the gaming industry, he intends to one day fulfill his dream of training his Black Lab to not only fetch a beer, but also to determine affordable labels without coming off like a hipster. He enjoys most genres of film with the exception of horror, can recall the best Jim and Pam episodes of The Office from memory, and isn’t bothered at all when Netflix suggests Bridget Jones’s Diary based on his viewing habits.

Game of Thrones: Season 7 (Ep 1-5 Review)

by Anthony Florez - August 15, 2017August 15, 2017

Article by: Anthony Florez Yes, Spoilers below. Read at your own risk. Season 7 of Game of Thrones is ending in just over two weeks. Let that sink in for a second. Two weeks and we're back to waiting another year for the endgame to what is, by now, with its multi-ethnic and

Movie Review: The Dark Tower

by Anthony Florez - August 9, 2017

Article by: Anthony Florez It's been a real challenge starting a review of The Dark Tower, a film I sincerely enjoyed for what it was, but for some reason feel guilty about liking. Critics are jumping up and down on the movie for being obscure, rushed, and convoluted but the impression that

Film Review: Spider-Man: Homecoming

by Anthony Florez - July 13, 2017July 13, 2017

Article by: Anthony Florez This is going to be a less popular opinion than most, and I usually don't like taking a "superior position" to mainstream reviews, but Spider-Man: Homecoming, in its perfectly safe, Marvel-approved, inoffensive little package, feels much closer to a big budget special series of Agents of SHIELD than an

Movie Review: Wonder Woman (2017)

by Anthony Florez - June 8, 2017June 8, 2017

Article by: Anthony Florez At the Alamo Drafthouse screenings of Wonder Woman (no, not those screenings), the pre-show entertainment includes an eight minute long montage about the on-screen history of Wonder Woman and it's easy to understand how fans could be frustrated that it's taken so long for her to get her own

Remembering CHRIS CORNELL (1964-2017)

by Anthony Florez - May 18, 2017

Article by: Anthony Florez The word 'grunge' is being bandied about a lot today and it's not a description I am particularly fond of. It is the popularly accepted description of an era of rock that originated in the early nineties, primarily in the Seattle music scene, and encompasses everything from

TV Review: 13 Reasons Why

by Anthony Florez - April 17, 2017April 19, 2017

Article by: Anthony Florez Let's get the PSA out of the way first: suicide is not an option and if it is something that's being considered, please seek help in some form. This is the centerpiece and the primary flaw of 13 Reasons Why, a show that strays dangerously close to fetishizing the

TV Review: Iron Fist

by Anthony Florez - March 29, 2017April 7, 2017

Article by: Anthony Florez Let this be a lesson to the entitled out there, everyone who has been gorging themselves in this incredible age of television, in the time of The Americans, Stranger Things, Patriot, The Man in The High Castle, Legion, The Walking Dead, et al., for everyone who has responded to

Movie Review: LOGAN

by Anthony Florez - March 4, 2017March 4, 2017

Article by: Anthony Florez The first film in the X-Men franchise came out 17 years ago and was, at the time, considered one of the most mature entries in the superhero film genre. It took its themes of exclusion and metaphors for racism and homophobia as well as an open disregard for

Movie Review: SPLIT

by Anthony Florez - January 25, 2017

Article by: Anthony Florez One of the things that kept occurring to me during the first act of M. Night Shyamalan's film Split is how confident it was from frame to frame, scene to scene. There is a kind of focus and deliberateness that should not belong to a filmmaker who has been,

Westworld: The Story So Far

by Anthony Florez - November 21, 2016November 21, 2016

Article by: Anthony Florez *with spoilers and some discussion of fan theories If, for whatever reason, you haven't jumped on the Westworld bandwagon just yet this is the week to do it. After eight episodes the exposition is finally starting to give way to real conflict; it's been a patiently deployed story with