Jeff Ewing

Los Angeles

Writer and Contributor at Freelance

Founder and Host at Humanoids from the Deep Dive

Journalist. Words: Inverse, Collider, The Playlist, Slashfilm, Looper, Forbes, etc. @HFTDeepDive creator. Member @CriticsChoice. Bi 🏳️‍🌈. 🍅-Approved.

Articles

'Criminal Minds: Evolution' Season 3 Review: I Wasn't Sold on the BAU's Return Until Elden Henson's Creepy Serial Killer Showed Up

1 week ago | collider.com | Jeff Ewing

When Criminal Minds returned on Paramount+ under the sequel title Criminal Minds: Evolution, it quickly set itself apart by introducing one of the series' most dangerous unsubs. Elias Voit (Zach Gilford), the deadly Sicarius Killer, plagued the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) as the murderous mastermind behind an encrypted network of serial killers, aiding them via a series of buried kill boxes.
Fly With Lewis "Bob" Pullman Trilogy

1 week ago | letterboxd.com | Jeff Ewing

Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Please consider upgrading to a Pro account—for less than a couple bucks a month, you’ll get cool additional features like all-time and annual stats pages (example), the ability to select (and filter by) your favorite streaming services, and no ads!
Until Dawn: A Wildly Fun Horror Outing, Messy Logic Aside [Review]

3 weeks ago | thathashtagshow.com | Jeff Ewing

Posted by Jeff Ewing | Apr 24, 2025 | Horror, Movie News, Reviews | 0 | Supermassive Games’ Until Dawn became an instant horror classic for PlayStation, in part thanks to its adept atmosphere building and an innovative butterfly effect dynamic, where characters live or die based on (what seem like) the most innocuous player choices. It’s a dynamic that’s inherently hard to replicate for a non-interactive feature film, so David F. Sandberg, the director of Sony’s new Until Dawn horror film,...
The 25 most Oscar-worthy stunts of the 2000s: From Ethan Hunt and the ‘Fast and Furious’ to James Bond and John Wick

3 weeks ago | goldderby.com | Jeff Ewing

Gold Derby is celebrating its 25th anniversary with our "25 in '25" series highlighting the best, worst and weirdest of the 2000s. The Academy has officially (finally!) announced the creation of a Best Stunt Design category, just in time for the 100th anniversary of the Oscars in 2028. To many, the award is long overdue — after all, how many of our favorite scenes in film history stick out thanks to harrowing, entertaining, or mind-bending stunt work?
'Mob Cops' Review: David Arquette Leads a Mafia Movie That Makes an Offer You Can Refuse

3 weeks ago | collider.com | Jeff Ewing

Police corruption is a major social danger, and some of the best films in history have featured dirty cops as key antagonists. Chinatown portrays the entire justice system as under the thumb of the rich and powerful. Training Day features one of film history's best dirty cop portrayals in Denzel Washington's Alonzo.
'Cheech and Chong's Last Movie' Review: A Blunt, Breezy, Big-Screen Reunion of Comedy Greats

3 weeks ago | collider.com | Jeff Ewing

Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are stoner comedy legends, with a successful stage act, comedy albums, and films like Up in Smoke and Cheech and Chong's Next Movie essentially codifying tropes for the subgenre before going their separate ways for a time in the late 1980s. In popularizing the stoner comedy, the duo directly or indirectly paved the way for a wide array of classics, including The Big Lebowski, Superbad, Pineapple Express, and The Beach Bum.
'The Last of Us' Season 2 Is Off to a Great Start for High Drama [Review]

1 month ago | thathashtagshow.com | Jeff Ewing

Posted by Jeff Ewing | Apr 13, 2025 | HBO, Max, Reviews, TV News | 0 | Score 85%Score 85% The Last Of Us ends season 1 in a tense place. The long journey of Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) hit a major snag when Joel realizes the Fireflies can only investigate Ellie’s immunity to the cordyceps virus by digging into her brain, a fatal procedure. Of course, Joel lost his own daughter and is played by Pedro Pascal (the number one person to call when you need a daddy to escort a...
How ‘The Pitt’ created such an immersive medical drama

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Jeff Ewing

NowAP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalistsA federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events, affirming on First Amendment grounds that the government cannot punish the news organization for the content of its speech. U.S. District Judge Trevor N.
How ‘The Pitt’ created such an immersive medical drama

1 month ago | goldderby.com | Jeff Ewing

As The Pitt wraps its first season, the Noah Wyle-starring Max medical drama has only grown in positive reception and awards prospects. The series covers a 15-hour ER shift over 15 episodes (effectively in real time), and Wyle himself has received much-deserved praise for his work as Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, particularly around his stunning performance in the series’ 13th episode.
How ‘The Pitt’ created such an immersive medical drama

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jeff Ewing

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysAs The Pitt wraps its first season, the Noah Wyle-starring Max medical drama has only grown in positive reception and awards prospects.