Despite flagging ratings during its often incoherent narrative mess of a second season, Showtime brought its horror series ‘Penny Dreadful’ back for another round. I like the show and am glad to have it back. Let’...
‘Game of Thrones’ delivers a big plot twist this week that, to be honest, is both disappointingly predictable and leaves me feeling conflicted about the direction the series is taking. I expect that it will divide a lo...
Disney not only topped the domestic box office for the third week in a row, the studio also destroyed all competition overseas with an early release of Marvel’s latest.
Sad to say, the most appealing Blu-ray release this week is a catalog title I mistakenly listed as available a few weeks ago. I suppose that’s good news for those of us who’d like to save our cash.
In the new Key & Peele movie ‘Keanu’, a couple of cat owners go to extraordinary lengths to rescue their beloved feline when it’s taken away from them. That’s a theme I’m sure most pet owners can...
Following last week’s insulting shitshow of an episode, ‘The Flash’ tones things down to its usual levels of blatant nonsense. I guess that’s an improvement, and an episode like this probably wouldn’t...
As if trying to get into theaters before the summer blockbusters start rolling out, this weekend offers a trio of new movies – only one of which is mildly appealing – that attempt to capitalize on the fact that ‘The Jungle B...
‘Precious Cargo’ is the type of painfully generic action movie that used to gather dust on video store shelves back when those existed and now sucks up precious bandwidth on streaming services. Movies like this are des...
At a certain point, the world needs to come together and ask why Garry Marshall is allowed to continue working. While there was a time when he provided pop culture enemas like ‘Happy Days’ and ‘Pretty Woman’...
Jeremy Saulnier’s ‘Green Room’ is a vicious little indie thriller sure to get the heart pumping in any genre fan with a taste for carnage. Like all great thrillers, the setup is simple and the impact is deadly. T...
Transitioning from sketch comedy to feature films ain’t easy. Generally, the results feel either like a single sketch overextended to 90 minutes or a series of premises loosely assembled into an unsatisfying narrative. Thank...
There are so many ways in which ‘Hello, My Name Is Doris’ could and perhaps should have gone wrong. It could have been too sickly sweet and fantastical. It could have been too cynically sarcastic and self-conscious. Ye...
