Weekend Box Office: Lost at Sea
This Labor Day weekend certainly didn’t have many theater chain employees laboring much. The older movies held over quite well, but the two new wide releases struggled.
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 4th, 2016 – Pumping I
Welcome to September. Did you have a nice holiday weekend? In terms of Blu-rays, the new month looks more promising than the last one. This week starts off strong with a long-awaited catalog title.
Weekend Roundtable: Current TV Shows You’ve Given Up On
Breaking up with a TV show you used to enjoy can be difficult. Once you’ve spent a few years of commitment in it, you may not even want to admit that the relationship is ending. Unfortunately, some shows (even those that sta...
‘Morgan’ Review: Ex MachiNOT
The biggest problem with ‘Morgan’ is that it’s not ‘Ex Machina’, yet comes out so soon after Alex Garland’s brilliant robo-Frankenstein tale that it’s almost impossible not to draw compari...
Weekend Movies: A Light in the Darkness
Welcome to September, the month that’s usually the dullest and dreariest on the movie calendar. This year, however, each week features at least one wide release with potential. Accompanying this weekend’s generic horro...
‘Hands of Stone’ Review: Head of Air
‘Hands of Stone’, Hollywood’s latest uninspired boxing melodrama, is a big, long, sweeping affair. Robert De Niro has a supporting role, just in case anyone considers that a selling point anymore.
Poll: Which Fall 2016 New TV Shows Will You Check Out?
Now that September is here, the fall TV season is about to ramp up in earnest. Over the next few months, dozens of brand new, never-before-seen television series will vie for your attention. Which upcoming shows have caught your i...
‘The Light Between Oceans’ Review: Sappy, Silly, Sinc
‘The Light Between Oceans’ is pure unadulterated soap opera, and weirdly that’s both its greatest strength and fatal flaw. When it works, the larger than life story pulls enormous emotions out of audiences barely...
‘The Strain’ 3.01 Recap: “We Finally Taking the
FX brought ‘The Strain’ back for a third year. I suppose that means people are still watching it. Sadly, I’m not sure I can hang around for another season.
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 2.09 Recap: “We’r
Looks like I was wrong in my assumption that the rest of this season of ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ would focus on just one set of characters at a time. This week’s episode is divided between two groups. Unfortunatel...
R.I.P. Gene Wilder
Dammit, 2016, you need to let up already with all the celebrity deaths. There seems to be no end to them this year. The latest icon to leave us is beloved comedian Gene Wilder. He was 83.
‘The Night Of’ 1.08 Recap: “Did You Kill Her?&#
Well, this didn’t go quite as I expected it to. HBO gives viewers a feature-length (roughly 95 minutes) final episode to ‘The Night Of’ that wraps up the trial and seems to answer the question of who killed Andre...