Weekend Roundtable: Flatlining
This week, we use the excuse of the ‘Flatliners’ remake to give some thought to our favorite movie or TV death scenes. This may well be the only useful thing ‘Flatliners’ is ever good for.
This week, we use the excuse of the ‘Flatliners’ remake to give some thought to our favorite movie or TV death scenes. This may well be the only useful thing ‘Flatliners’ is ever good for.
Like a drug pusher offering customers a first taste for free, CBS premiered its new ‘Star Trek’ series on regular broadcast this week, but you’ll need to pay a subscription fee for the CBS All Access streaming pl...
Seth MacFarlane’s new live-action sci-fi series ‘The Orville’ gets just about everything right to look and even sound like a spot-on ‘Star Trek’ spoof. Inexplicably, the creator of ‘Family Guy...
This is such a slow week for movies that the most notable new theatrical release is actually a TV show. Four weeks ahead of its broadcast debut, Marvel is premiering the new series ‘Inhumans’ in IMAX theaters first. Wo...
Ending a 12-year break, the ‘Star Trek’ franchise returns to TV this fall, but you’ll have to pay to watch it. Although CBS will air the premiere episode on regular broadcast on September 24th, all subsequent epi...
For as much as Hollywood loves rebooting old movie properties, unfortunately not all cinematic reboots work out. In many fans’ estimation, it took Sony three tries to finally get Spider-Man right. In this week’s Roundt...
Even as amazing as it was, the original ‘Alien’ was not the only great movie released in 1979. Our Roundtable this week looks at some other notable titles that hit theater screens that year.
After last week’s avalanche of Blu-rays, this week eases off considerably. Strangely, even though Tuesday is Valentine’s Day, I don’t see many romantic movies in the latest assortment of discs – unless you accept...
Some days, you just need to bury your head under a pillow and block the rest of the world out. Today may be one of those days. When you’re depressed or despondent and it feels like the entire world is falling apart, what mov...
Last week, we voted on Favorite Blockbusters of 2016. Unfortunately, a lot of movies last year didn’t live up to their promise or hype. What movies were the biggest letdowns for you?
From ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ in January to ‘Rogue One’ at year end, a lot of movies in 2016 made a lot of money at the box office. Not all of them were actually well liked by the audiences that paid for them, but...
It’s another overstuffed week for new Blu-ray releases, as the Hollywood studios dump a bunch of titles on the market before the holidays. This batch has psychotic clowns, peculiar children, bad robots, gladiators and more.