Featuring a World War II setting, secret homosexuality, mysterious mental illness and a star hitting his peak, ‘The Imitation Game’ is a classic bit of Oscar bait filmmaking designed to profit off statues and nominatio...
Chris Rock has been one of the finest standup comics in the world (possibly even the greatest) for a few decades now. He’s also been a movie star during that period, yet never quite found a film that could come close to matc...
The strangest major studio release last spring was Darren Aronofsky’s wacky ‘Noah’. In a perverse way, it makes sense that 2014 should wrap up with another ambiguous Old Testament blockbuster. Ridley Scott’...
Is it awards season already? Early this morning, Kate Beckinsale, Jeremy Piven, Peter Krause and Paula Patton announced the 2015 Golden Globe Award nominations. As happened last year, I’m once again disappointed that the Hol...
While it’s not officially being called a winter finale, this week’s new episode of ‘The Flash’ is the last until January 20th. With all my shows on break, what will I watch for the next month? Fortunately, ...
After this week, ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ goes on hiatus until March 3rd, 2015. That’s a long time to wait for a new episode. In the meantime, the show leaves us with a winter finale that jam-packs in a lot of ma...
When it comes to sappy romance for Christmas, your easiest option is to turn on the Hallmark Channel. The network has a December-long spree of feel-good holiday love stories and family fare that’s hard to top for sheer volum...
Remember how nice it was to have a Zed-free episode of ‘Constantine’? Sadly, the character (and the charisma void that is actress Angélica Celaya) is back at the forefront of the most recent episode, which is just one ...
The past couple weeks have brought us some new movie trailers that got viewers giddy with excitement, but the small glimpses into these upcoming features also raise a few concerns.
The penultimate episode of ‘The Newsroom’ turns out to be a rather mixed bag, with some good and some not-so-good subplots, plus a shocker of an ending that I’m still not sure how I feel about.
Perhaps I was just in a better mood and more receptive to the show than I’d been recently, but as soon as I saw that last week’s episode of ‘American Horror Story’ was titled ‘Blood Bath’, I had...
With snazzy new packaging and a bunch of all-new bonus features, the ‘Gremlins: 30th Anniversary Diamond Luxe Edition‘ Blu-ray is the perfect gift for any fan of Joe Dante’s delightfully wicked black comedy. We&#...
