Alvin's Adventures in Pop Culture

What I Watched in Quarantine – 10 Movies

Wow! It’s been a long while since I last posted (90 days ago) to my blog. At a time when we’ve been indoors more than ever (for me only marginally so), everyone shared all the things that they watched to keep themselves entertained while in quarantine. I too watched all kinds of stuff, but with…

Spring TV 2020 – Amazing Stories & Tales from the Loop

While self-isolation has everyone binge-watching TV and movies to pass the time, I’ve probably been watching less than I used to. Rather than finding relief from the anxiety of the outside world, I find myself reminded of the things that we have temporarily lost. Nevertheless, even with my gloomy demeanor, I can be uplifted by…

Oscar Schmoscar 2020

After a few years off, I’m back trying to catch some nominees for this year’s Academy Awards before the show on Sunday. Traditionally I have had a love-hate relationship with Oscar films: I want to love them (like the world does), but I find myself lacking appreciation for those movies that get everyone’s votes. This…

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…