Movie Review: Velvet Buzzsaw
CRITIQUING the CRITICS
The Cutprice Guignol
The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House
February 4, 2019
February 2, 2019
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Chapter Thirteen
Iiiiiiiiiit’s Saturday night! And you know what that means: while I recline under my couch-duvet with my cat and my partner and lightly snark on a Supernatural rewatch, I’m going to have a poke at the next chapter of Harry Potter and drink this large cup of chamomile tea and try not to let my cat spill it on me because she’s a bitch like that.
Pictured: a bitch like that
February 1, 2019
Riverdale S3E11: The Red Dahlia
Alright, so sometimes Riverdale does genre parody, in that sort of sly, if-you-get-it-you-get-it kind of way. And sometimes, it just lifts every cliche from the genre handbook and crams it into one episode and dumps it on your lap. This week’s outing. The Red Dahlia, was the latter. And this time, Riverdale is going balls-to-the-wall with its noir.
January 27, 2019
Movie Review: Glass
What could have been brilliant ends as just a nightmare of bad ideas in M Night Shyamalan’s latest
January 27, 2019
True Crime, Voyeurism, and Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes
“Don’t watch “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” alone. Trust me on this one,” Netflix US tweeted out at the start of the weekend, when their latest true crime documentary hit screens. Directed by Joe Berlinger, and based around the interviews conducted by Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth with Bundy before his execution in 1989. Promoted like a lurid horror film and breathlessly trailed as a fascinating look into the mind of a brilliant, sadistic murderer, I already had my doubts about it before I so much as sat down in front of the first episode.
January 25, 2019
2019 Oscar Nominations: A First Look
Some more Oscars Hot Takes
January 24, 2019
The Alternative Oscar Nominations
Gerard Butler is on this list. I’m only a little sorry about it.
January 24, 2019
Riverdale S3E10: The Stranger
After watching this week’s episode of Riverdale, I feel like I’ve been hit by a speeding train and now my broken, twitching body is trying to write these recaps before the life seeps out of me for good.
January 23, 2019
An Ode to the Cooking Show
For those who’ve stuck around at the Guignol since its inception, you may remember that time I was just really depressed and lay in bed all day writing about the cooking shows that happened to be on TV that afternoon and talking about how I wanted to fuck Guy Fieri (it was a dark time in my life, alright, we’re moving on). And, you know, I’ve always loved a good cooking show, even when I’m not hiding under the covers trying to figure out if I’m more anxious or more hungover. Considering this blog is all about my passionate love of television, I feel like it’s about time I took a little wander down a pathway that has lately brought me so much joy in some recent hard times.
The Cutprice Guignol 