The second season of AMC’s ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ returned from its three-month break this week. The time away left me wondering whether I really care enough about the show to continue watching. I suspect that a...
With only one episode to go after this one, a big chunk of the latest entry of ‘The Night Of’ is devoted to Naz’s trial – which means that much of this episode is a rehash/reexamination of plot points viewers are...
This weekend resulted in no change for the top two movies at the box office. Three new releases had to duke it out for the slots that followed. Two of them saw so-so returns, while the third just might end up being the biggest flo...
A pair of crime comedies, one brand new and one a classic, overshadow the rest of this week’s Blu-ray release list while a sequel no one wanted, some art films, and a whole bunch of TV box sets also vie for your attention.
These days, it seems that no movie, no matter how beloved or esteemed or sacrosanct, is safe from being run through the Hollywood remake factory. What movies do you consider so sacred that you’d be appalled to see them remad...
After the last decade worth of zombie media, it can be pretty difficult to get excited about anything coming out of that particular horror genre. There’s not much that can really be done with this material that wasn’t ...
Including animation and TV miniseries, this is the sixth adaptation of ‘Ben-Hur’, and that famous one wasn’t even the first. Anyone immediately inclined to cry out blasphemy over this remake’s mere existenc...
This weekend brings a trio of war-filled films. The widest release is of the animated family-friendly variety with a war against evil. The next one is similar to ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, only with stocks replaced by ...
It seems to be an unwritten law in Hollywood that if you’re successful as a comedy director for long enough, you’ll eventually try to make a dramatic movie in a bid to be taken seriously. That’s where Todd Philli...
A simplicity in ‘Hell or High Water’ serves as the film’s greatest strength. That’s not to say the movie is without ambition. In fact, its greatest flaw is subtext overt enough to be text. The reason the fi...
Apropos of Shannon’s article earlier this week about how this has been the worst movie season in recent memory, let’s put it to a vote. Which movies from the summer of 2016 disappointed you the most?
Ever since launching with the masterful ‘Coraline’, Laika has been one of the most consistent animation factories on the planet. Though essentially trafficking in kiddie entertainment, the stop-motion studio always exe...
