Once a hugely fun show, ‘The Flash’ was an infuriating narrative mess last season, which ended with one of the series’ most maddeningly incoherent episodes. I closed my last recap by saying, “The show needs...
As if the show weren’t already overstuffed with goofy villains, ‘Gotham’ pulled yet another colorful madman from the pages of ‘Batman’ comics this week. Sadly, that character’s introduction is t...
Here’s a tricky one. When ‘The Birth of a Nation’ premiered at Sundance this spring it was instantly hailed as an early Oscar favorite and sold for $17.5 million to Fox Searchlight. Then some deeply troubling new...
‘Denial’ might boast intriguing subject matter and a hell of a cast, but the movie also proves that good intentions can easily be undone by poor storytelling. The movie is dullsville – dry, predictable and preachy in w...
From the incessant ads for it, NBC’s new time travel adventure ‘Timeless’ looked like it would be either one of the most promising new TV series of the fall or one of the cheesiest. Do these two things have to be...
Ashley J. Williams and his sidekicks are back for another season of Deadite-killing mayhem! The first season of ‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ was great fun but had some growing pains. Can the second season iron out the kinks wit...
Fans of ‘League of Legends’ will soon be able to bring Yordle mech-warriors to the tabletop with ‘Mechs vs. Minions’, a cooperative tower defense style board game set in the same universe as the hugely popu...
Adapted from the 1973 sci-fi thriller written and directed by the late Michael Crichton, ‘Westworld’ is the biggest and most ambitious high-concept event series HBO has launched since ‘Game of Thrones’. The...
One of the strangest stories to ever slip out of the insanity of North Korea was the tale of how Kim Jong-il once kidnapped a director and actress from South Korea and forced them to make movies for the state. That’s the sor...
One year ago at this time, ‘The Martian’ tore up the box office. Even the combined debut totals for this weekend’s two biggest releases couldn’t come close to matching that movie’s numbers.
The massive deluge of Blu-rays this week brings us a mutant apocalypse, airborne sharks and a farting corpse, among other weirdness. October is off to a crazy start.
Something tells me that this weekend’s theatrical release of the heist comedy ‘Masterminds’ won’t be a classic for the ages. Let’s look instead at some heist movies that better stand the test of time.
