Weekend Roundtable: Christmas Wish List 2014
Each year around this time, we use a Roundtable to drop some last-minute hints about the gifts we’d like to see under our trees come Christmas morning. What would you like Santa to bring you?
Each year around this time, we use a Roundtable to drop some last-minute hints about the gifts we’d like to see under our trees come Christmas morning. What would you like Santa to bring you?
Hugely complicated, elaborate and above all expensive, Hollywood loves to make epic movies with lavish production values and a proverbial (sometimes literal) cast of thousands. As Ridley Scott brings ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings&...
It’s a sad reality that, even looking back through the ages to writers and painters and musicians of centuries past, far too many great artists and entertainers have turned out to be not-so-great people in real life. With th...
Next week is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. Because our blog will be closed on Thursday and Friday for a long weekend, we’ll use today’s Roundtable to express our gratitude for the things that have made...
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Happy Halloween! This time of year, horror fans often indulge in marathon viewings of their favorite scary movies. For our holiday Roundtable, we thought it would be fun to list off our favorite horror movie franchises.
Last week, we looked back at the best movies released during the years we were born. For this week’s Roundtable, I thought it would be interesting to jump forward a decade and identify our favorite movies from the time we ea...
In this week’s Roundtable, let’s look back in time a little and mark some milestones. What was the best movie released the year you were born? This may or may not happen to be the film that won the Oscar that year, but...
This week, pop culture’s most famous vampire, Dracula, returns to cinema screens with a new prequel/reboot that tries to retcon the evil bloodsucker as a misunderstood superhero. To put it lightly, the film looks a little ha...
With the start of any new TV season comes the sad inevitability that some shows, even good shows, won’t survive long-term. In this week’s Roundtable, we look back at a few past series that were cut short before we were...
In this age where computer-generated animation has largely supplanted older traditional methods, the labor intensive stop-motion process is a dying breed. This week, studio Laika keeps the format breathing with ‘The BoxTroll...