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.
Christmas is once again almost upon us, which means that it’s the season to watch some Christmas movies. I can’t speak for everyone, but in my home, the comedies get a lot more mileage than the melodramas. What are you...
I fell behind in my ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ viewing and had not planned to write up recaps of the show again until the finale. However, the latest episode is so much fun I have to acknowledge it.
This weekend brings three wide release movies – two that you’ve heard of and one that you haven’t – and an indie musical that’s hoping to sweep the Academy off its feet. Unfortunately, for the three I’ve se...
Hollywood holiday movies don’t come much more generic than ‘Office Christmas Party’. If the painfully impersonal title didn’t give the game away, this is cookie-cutter comedy filmmaking at its most frustrat...
‘Miss Sloane’ is one of those movies that exists and (occasionally) thrives purely on a single star performance. Jessica Chastain has emerged as one of the great actresses of her era, and it was likely her clout and go...
The end of the year is a time for “based on a true story” weepies designed to keep the Kleenex industry in business and gobble up easy award nominations. Most of them stink and work only on the easily manipulated and/o...
It appears that ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ will divide the two halves of this season into distinct storylines. The mid-season finale finally (mercifully) brings an end to the Ghost Rider arc, at least for now. I can̵...
Isn’t it convenient how this season’s diabolical supervillains, Savitar and Alchemy, stepped aside for a while to give Barry time to participate in last week’s (largely pointless) multi-show crossover? With that ...
The season finale of ‘Westworld’ isn’t just a case of one plot twist too many. It has so many twists and turns and violent contortions that I no longer have any idea what the story is at all.
‘The Other Half’ is a certain type of destructive love story where no matter how much joy is visible on screen, viewers are acutely aware how wrong and impossible it is. Anchored by a pair of incredible performances, i...
Last week’s ‘Heroes vs. Aliens’ four-show crossover on the CW concluded on ‘Legends of Tomorrow’. The ending is certainly better than that lame ‘Arrow’ episode in the middle, but I canR...
