Alvin's Adventures in Pop Culture

Winter TV 2020

I keep saying that there’s so much TV I want to watch that I can’t keep up, but never has that been more true than this winter. Here’s a rundown of 15 new and returning shows that just kicked off in the last month or so. I have to be brief in my reviews of…

10 Favourite Movies of the Decade

Even though I’ve posted reviews of most of the movies that I’ve seen, it’s harder than I expected to pick my 10 favourite movies of the past decade. Keep in mind, they’re not the 10 “best” movies, since I have hardly seen even a small percentage of all the movies that came out so I…

10 Favourite TV Shows of the Decade

This past 10 years has seen a lot of change on TV. We barely still call it “TV” because it’s mostly watched via internet streaming, and on-demand. This age of “peak TV” has brought some big names (and big budgets) to the small screen, and we get to enjoy the fruits. Now that the 2010s…

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Movie Review

Despite the fact that this film would bring to a close a story that began over 40 years ago, I can’t say that I was really excited to go see it. Plus, it didn’t help that early reviews panned the finale to the Skywalker saga so thoroughly. Nevertheless, having taken great pains to enjoy all…

Frozen 2 – Movie Review

After watching the first Frozen, did you imagine a sequel? What would have been the story? I didn’t think that a sequel was needed, and I guess the only storylines that I imagined would have been snow queen Elsa defending her kingdom of Arendelle from outside attack, or something connected to the unexplained maritime death…

Fall TV 2019 – Streaming

Too much TV! Can’t. Keep. Up. This post was due a month ago (when it still felt like fall), but I haven’t even found enough time to watch all the shows, let alone write about them. Now that streaming channels are going head-to-head with the networks and releasing their new shows (and even debuting new…

Getting Creepy with Netflix 2019

I hope everyone had a fun Halloween and things got a little scary or creepy. As an occasional tradition, I like to pick out a few scary movies to watch around this time. However, as I’ve said before, I am a chicken when it comes to truly gory or malevolent horror. I am satisfied with…

Fall TV 2019 – New Shows

It’s always tough to know which new shows to watch, to give chances to. I usually pick my favourite genres (e.g. sitcoms, sci-fi, and lawyer shows). Sadly there was little new sci-fi this fall — and we’ve been in a pretty long slump of sci-fi flops, except for Star Trek, of course. Lawyer shows have…

Fall TV 2019 – Returning Shows

Wow! The new fall network TV season must have bought some new sneakers, because it just came out of nowhere! Each year I’ve been saying how the streaming TV revolution has been changing the way we view “fall TV season”, but this year I almost didn’t remember that new shows and new episodes were coming….