‘True Blood’ 5.11 Recap: “We Own the Day”
As ‘True Blood’ barrels toward its season finale, the impending war between vampires and humans appears to be coming to a head. Is this really a time when we need to bring out more of the damned fairies?
As ‘True Blood’ barrels toward its season finale, the impending war between vampires and humans appears to be coming to a head. Is this really a time when we need to bring out more of the damned fairies?
Last week’s Blu-ray release slate gave us a major new release (‘The Hunger Games’), a great classic (‘Jaws’) and several other notable titles such as ‘The Raid’ and ‘The Royal Tenenb...
1990 was truly a banner year for David Lynch. Bursting with creativity at his artistic peak, Lynch had a hit show on TV, a weekly comic strip that ran in alternative newspapers across the country, and a new movie that won top priz...
We love giving away free stuff around here, and we have a great contest lined up for you this week. How would you like to win a free copy of Showtime’s terrific suspense thriller ‘Homeland: The Complete First Season...
In a strange and shocking turn of events, prolific action movie director Tony Scott died on Sunday from an apparent suicide. He was 68 years-old.
While this blog may be primarily focused on movies, TV and videogames, we don’t want to leave the impression that we’re totally uncultured in literary matters here. We read books too, you know. (Well, some of us, anywa...
AMC’s Western drama ‘Hell on Wheels’ was one of the most ambitious, if also inconsistent, new TV series to premiere last season. Fortunately, after taking a while to find its footing, the show ended its first sea...
Of all the new shows that premiered last season, I had extremely low expectations for NBC’s ‘Grimm’, the previews for which all looked incredibly cheesy and dumb. Color me surprised, then, when I found myself enj...
On Monday, TNT brought its long-running police drama ‘The Closer’ to… well, to a close. Immediately afterwards, the network then premiered that show’s spin-off, called ‘Major Crimes’. While I...
David Lynch has never been accused of doing anything in a conventional manner. Typically, when a filmmaker adapts a book to the screen, he or she must condense the text into a manageable length by removing inessential scenes or st...
Purely by accident, I ordered an extra copy of Wes Anderson’s ‘Rushmore’ on Blu-ray recently, even though I already owned that disc. My mistake will be one reader’s gain. Our contest results are in. Read on...
The current season of ‘True Blood’ presents an interesting conundrum for me. One the one hand, I feel that the season is overall much more consistent and better than the last couple. It has a decent story arc, and most...