A curious consequence of re-watching The Umbrella Academy is watching it through the lens of knowing the end game and where it is going. If, like yours truly, you know the source material, it’s like watching it through bifocals, rose-colored to boot. There was never any mystery, but getting there was a blast. Still, I find…
No time for niceties, I’m afraid, my friends, we have so much to cover. The Umbrella Academy has turned out to be an embarrassment of riches, so full and vital that paring a review down to sub doctoral thesis length is an act of love and masochism (as if you could separate the two). Each…
I am being, perhaps, a bit reductive – and I hope you can forgive it, should that prove to be the case – in saying that the superhero genre is primarily built on the backs of isolated do-gooders, working to protect the innocent, preserve the world, save the kittens, you get the idea. This isn’t…