Since last season on ‘Under the Dome’, I’ve been clamoring for scenes that take place on the other side of the dome. We got a few seconds in this season’s premiere, but this week we take an extended trip to...
The problem with creating a movie or TV show set in the present day with a character who’s a Holocaust survivor is that, in order for the math to work, he’d have to be impractically old to still be plausible as an acti...
In this week’s finale of ‘The Last Ship’: All the prisoners are freed! We have the vaccine! We blow up all the Russians! WOO-HOO! Wait. What? There are two more episodes left? So the next couple of episodes are j...
Honestly, I probably would not have chosen to watch the premiere of the Starz network’s new drama ‘Outlander’ on my own. However, my wife insisted, and since the show promised some time travel and other fantasy e...
I’ve resisted writing obituary posts in this blog for the past few months, despite some notable recent celebrity deaths. The burden of that responsibility just got to be too depressing. Sadly, this one is just too big and to...
Does Hollywood know how to make anything other than sequels anymore? This week’s collection of trailers is mostly for new installments in franchises that nobody actually expected to be continued.
This weekend marks the second in a row for huge August debuts. Last week’s was due to consumer confidence in the Marvel brand and this week’s was due to nostalgia.
The middle of August seems like odd timing for a big Blu-ray push, but this week sees a huge volume of new releases hitting the market. Of course, as always, the trick is to find the few actually worth buying hidden among the dros...
A great poet once penned the immortal verse: “Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO. Go Ninja, Go Ninja, GO.” This week’s Roundtable is all about movies that involve martial arts. What are your favorites?
The future of the Galaxy is at risk of being upset by Michael Bay’s second waste of time this summer.
When Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey team up to produce a movie, you know that schmaltz is inevitable. Toss in ‘Cider House Rules’ director Lasse Hallstrom and you’ve got super-schmaltz. The studio really shou...
‘Into the Storm’ is a lean 90-minute ode to the joys of watching stuff get smashed and go boom. Sure, it has a plot and some characters, but those pesky dramatic elements are little more than a distraction for both the...
