Brian Farvour

1 week ago | theplaylist.net | Brian Farvour

Viola Davis, it would seem, always appears ready to surprise; with a career spanning nearly three decades and armed to the hilt with accolades, this uber-talent isn’t shy when it comes to balancing small-scale drama (“The Help,” “Fences,” “Air”) with big budget storytelling, best seen in her ongoing involvement with James Gunn’s DCU as the recurring Amanda Waller and learning that this motion picture chameleon is set to headline a straightforward action film in the vein of any legendary ’80s...

1 week ago | theplaylist.net | Brian Farvour

Technology. It’s hard to overstate the way in which society has portrayed both its capacity for good and avalanche of flaws; it’s what inspired the likes of “Her” and “Ex Machina, ” with “Black Mirror” entering the conversation in 2011 laser-focused on examining the ways tech could just as quickly go from nothing more than an everyday assistant to the villain of each episode comprising the show’s now-seven seasons.

2 weeks ago | theplaylist.net | Brian Farvour

Within the first few minutes of “Gazer,” it’s easy to tell that a woman named Frankie (Ariella Mastroianni) is struggling. Our heroine, it would seem, has been living with a disorder of some sort, one that requires her to go about her day with a cassette tape player spouting commands into her ear throughout; these words, however, aren’t of the motivational variety or her favorite podcast.

3 weeks ago | theplaylist.net | Brian Farvour

It’s the worst nightmare for any parent. Learning that your child has met their end at the hands of someone unidentified not only upends any semblance of normalcy, thus changing one’s life forever, but has served as fodder for countless forms of content since the dawn of storytelling. Turning the focus towards the assailant isn’t necessarily new.

1 month ago | theplaylist.net | Brian Farvour

Remember “Orphan?” That rather upsetting horror tale of a deranged woman in her early 30s afflicted with dwarfism who, after posing as a nine-year-old girl, proceeds to inflict a battery of terror upon her adopted parents? Surprisingly, the events of “Orphan” seem to have inspired a real-life scenario similar in more ways than one to the 2009 film.