As it did in each of the previous two seasons, ‘Penny Dreadful’ takes a step back from its globe-spanning storylines this week to spend an entire hour focused on backstory. This time, the show strips itself down to jus...
Memorial Day Weekend brings a dynamic duo of sequels. One is the ninth installment (if you include ‘Deadpool’ as part of the series) in the only successful non-Disney Marvel franchise, while the other is a follow-up to...
‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ is a sequel that actually improves on its predecessor. However, the last movie was pretty bad despite the billion dollars it made at the box office suggesting otherwise. So, the improv...
There’s nothing more appropriate for summer movie counterprogramming than a film by Whit Stillman. The ’90s indie darling behind ‘Metropolitan‘ and ‘Barcelona‘ specializes in small films driven ...
Throughout its first season, ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ swung repeatedly from goofy comic book fun to infuriating nonsense. The finale episode certainly doesn’t try too hard to make much sense, but it’s entertai...
‘Mr. Right’ is no masterpiece, but it’s certainly a hell of a lot of fun and that’s all that it really needed to be. Blindingly bright, gushingly romantic, wilfully silly, and pulse-raisingly action packed,...
‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ closed out its very uneven third season last week with a supersized two-part finale. While I don’t think it necessarily ties everything together in the grand finish the show wanted, the s...
It’s odd that the ‘X-Men’ series is by far the longest-running film franchise of the 2000s comic book blockbuster boom and yet it’s also somehow an also-ran in the superhero race. Bryan Singer technically k...
Because previous trailers for this summer’s lineup of movies looked like major letdowns, the studios have just released new previews hoping to show improvement. Sadly, this second time around seems to confirm that we might b...
The AMC network has hyped its new comic book adaptation ‘Preacher’ so aggressively over the past few months that I couldn’t help approaching it with skepticism. Something about the promos and commercials gave off...
‘Game of Thrones’ rides the proverbial rollercoaster of emotion this week. The majority of the episode is frustratingly dull and the big action climax is a retread of my least favorite scene from the entire series. But...
Sony’s new animated family film may not have opened on par with Disney’s recent greats, but it still managed to boot ‘Captain America’ out of the top seat at the box office. At the same time, Seth RogenR...
