Patricia Rozema’s ‘Into the Forest’ is a well-crafted film with wonderful central performances. It’s hinged on a clever concept and filled with ambitious symbols and subtexts suggesting great import. Howeve...
I’ll be damned if I can figure out what the hell is going on with ‘Preacher’. For one thing, AMC waited two weeks after the pilot to air the second episode. Even accounting for the Memorial Day holiday in between...
Until now, the only ‘Star Trek’ Blu-rays available in SteelBook packaging were the J.J. Abrams reboots, plus a very limited Best Buy exclusive copy of ‘The Wrath of Khan’. To celebrate the franchise’s...
I had some reservations about the early episodes this season, but ‘Penny Dreadful’ really pulled itself together a couple episodes ago and has been strong ever since. This week’s entry has quite a lot going on an...
I’m not really sure how ‘Wayward Pines’ got renewed for a second season. The show was promoted as a one-time “Limited Event” series last summer. Although it ended on something of a cliffhanger, it fra...
I’m feeling really uneasy about the way that ‘Game of Thrones’ keeps bringing back characters assumed to be dead. That’s getting to be a bad habit for the show.
When it comes to the weekend’s new movies, nothing happened as expected. The big-budget sequel underwhelmed, the romance picture outpaced expectations, and nobody bothered to see the well-reviewed comedy.
A couple of exceptions aside, this May wasn’t the most exciting month for Blu-ray releases. June attempts to make up for that right away with a huge slate of new discs that should have at least a few really good ones in ther...
Counting the original trilogy from the 1990s, we’re now up to the fifth live-action ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ movie. A fifth ‘Transformers’ entry is also currently in production. Clearly, any kid...
Sometimes there’s no greater landscape to put in front of a camera than a human face. Displaced Bosnian actor Jasmin Geljo has one of those faces. The most despairing and hilarious moments of Igor Drljaca’s ‘The ...
Ever since ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ created the modern mockumentary form, comedy filmmakers have chased the dragon of that dumbbell music doc spoof. The subject matter is just too rich. Over-privileged morons ranting about...
The first weekend of June brings three types of counter-programming: the Michael Bay-produced sequel to ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’, a romance film adapted from a wildly successful novel, and an R-rated mockumentary...
