This week, in honor of Valentine’s Day, we’re highlighting our favorite romantic pairings from TV shows. These can come from any show, past or present, and we’ve limited ourselves to canon ‘ships, which means that while we all have a few pairs we desperately wish would’ve gotten together during the course of their respective shows, we’re only […]
I’ve been struggling with how to review Green Book, which I wanted to love, but wound up leaving me with some pretty complicated feelings, not all of them good. It’s currently sitting at 82% on Rotten Tomatoes (with a 94% audience approval rating), with most critics praising the powerful performances of its two leads and […]
Within the first few minutes of The Hate U Give, I was crying. The scene is a familiar one for Black families in America. Two parents sit with their pre-adolescent children at the kitchen table. As the mother jiggles a baby on her lap, her eyes filled with love and concern, the father proceeds, gently but firmly, […]
When we started discussing our last Five by Friday, we came to the realization that we felt so strongly about musical themes for TV shows we would have to split it into two different categories: Instrumental Themes and Theme Songs. (While we promised this post “next week” last time, what we really meant was “next next […]
The thing with movies “about racism” is that racism is such a sprawling, leviathan of a topic that a movie “about racism” can really be just about anything. I’ve seen three movies “about racism” by Black filmmakers this summer, each slotting into a different genre, and each of them came at the topic of racism […]
We’re all music junkies here at Avenging Force, so much so that when we started discussing our “Top TV Themes,” it became very clear that first, we would need to barter (more on that below, from Lauren), and second, that we would have to split them up by instrumental themes and themes that have vocals. […]
Well, here we are. After walking this Earth for thirty-something years having never seen (or even heard all that much about) a single ALIEN movie, I’ve finally come to the last one in my watch-through, 2017’s Alien: Covenant. Maybe the future will give us more ALIEN movies — and if so, you can rest assured I’ll […]
Friends, I’ve done it. I’ve watched my way through two decades worth of ALIEN movies (it’s not that impressive; there’s only four) and have caught up to the modern prequels. Time to see what exactly was so compelling about this premise that Ridley Scott felt the need to revisit it 33 years after making the original. […]
So we’ve come to the last Alien movie in the chronology. There were two more movies made after this, but they’re both prequels to the original, so as of right now, this one still stands as the final chapter in the Ripley saga. Is that because it gives the series a satisfying ending? Or is it just […]
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to assemble a team-up of fictional characters in order to pull off the ultimate heist. With Mission Impossible: Fallout hitting theaters this weekend, we’re doing things a bit differently for this week’s five by Friday. Instead of ranking our top five characters, songs, or robots this week, […]