If your DVR recording of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ this week was pre-empted by news coverage of Tuesday’s political primaries, as happened in my region, don’t just shrug it off and assume there was no new ep...
The 1990s were filled with ‘Saturday Night Live’ spinoff movies or projects like ‘The Jerky Boys’ that took characters who were funny in small doses and needlessly stretched them out to feature length expan...
Things took a turn for the worse at the end of last week’s Season 4 premiere of ‘Bates Motel’. As this week’s entry unfolds, it’s mother against son when both Norma and Norman wonder what evil the oth...
This week’s ‘Gotham’ has the most wonderful episode title I’ve ever heard. Is ‘This Ball of Mud and Meanness’ a reference to something? I have no idea (my perfunctory Googling was inconclusive),...
This summer brings us to a strange point in the proliferation of modern comic book movies. The superheroes from both major franchises, Marvel and DC, have beaten so many of their most famous villains that they’ve now taken t...
Supergirl falls victim to the effects of red kryptonite this week, and the result not only impacts her, but has serious ramifications for this freshman series as a whole. In short, this is by far my favorite episode of ‘Supe...
As the ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ team take their biggest jump back in time so far, could any director be better suited to making an episode that riffs on 1950s B-movies than Joe Dante?
This week’s entry of ‘The Walking Dead’ focuses on what happens with Carol and Maggie after they’re taken hostage by a handful of Negan’s Saviors. Despite an opportunity to give actors Melissa McBride...
While Disney’s ‘Zootopia’ continues to dominate the box office, only one of the weekend’s new competitors had much success standing up to it.
A few of last year’s most acclaimed movies hit Blu-ray this week, but are any of them really the sort of thing you’ll run out to buy?
It’s the apocalypse outside! Bummer. Much like the characters in this week’s ’10 Cloverfield Lane’, you’re stuck in a survivalist bunker, presumably for years or perhaps even forever. Fortunately, you...
If nothing else, you’ve got to admire Sacha Baron Cohen’s balls. Beyond being a comedic genius, the guy is fearless. The way he risked his personal safety to create a new form of confrontational cinematic comedy in ...
