One of the great advantages that movies have over, for example, stage plays is the ability to go places. As a plot device, the road trip has fueled countless films from at least as far back as ‘It Happened One Night‘ t...
To promote this fall’s upcoming theatrical release of the franchise’s newest movie, ‘Spectre’, MGM will re-release all of the previous James Bond Blu-rays. That should come as no surprise to anyone. Of inte...
If I got nothing else out of this week’s episode of ‘The Strain’, at least I finally know that the leader of the vampire commandos is named “Vaun” – not “Quinlan,” as he’s still cred...
Fox’s alleged “Limited Event” series ‘Wayward Pines’ drew to a close last week, and I stuck with it to the end, sometimes against my better judgment. With all the twists now revealed, was it worth the...
Leave it to ‘Hannibal’, the strangest and most experimental show on any of the major broadcast networks, to open an episode with a five-minute, completely dialogue-free sequence in which a character we’ve never s...
In the latest episode of ‘Under the Dome’, the Pod People of Chester’s Mill whistle while they work, we learn that aluminum pull-tabs can be used as deadly weapons, and Julia gets a much-deserved punch to the hea...
Remember when I complained about how few Blu-rays of interest were released last week? Yeah, well, you’re going to look back fondly at that week because this one’s even worse.
We played this game last year when we discussed Favorite Movies from the Year You Turned 10. For this week’s Roundtable, let’s move ahead a little to identify our favorite movies from the year we each turned 15.
I was so disappointed in the previous episode of ‘Hannibal’ that I put off watching the latest entry for a few days. (It turns out that NBC moved the show to Saturdays anyway.) Man, do I regret that. This is easily the...
I must say, I’m a little jealous. I wish I could get a free copy of ‘Ex Machina’ on Blu-ray. Instead, I’m tasked with giving it away to one of our readers. Let’s see who scored the prize!
Because I’m pretty ambivalent about ‘The Strain’ at all, I have to say that I find it really annoying that FX is super-sizing episodes this season to 75 or 90 minutes – especially when most of that difference is ...
Four years after ‘Rescue Me’ went off the air, Denis Leary returns to the FX network with a new series. Although ‘Sex&Drug&Rock&Roll’ is a half-hour comedy rather than an hour drama, the show wa...
