‘Supergirl’ 1.11 Recap: “There Is No Shame in S
This week’s edition of ‘Supergirl’ gives us some more background into the character of J’onn J’onzz (a.k.a. the Martian Manhunter) when a new threat to National City has J’onn/Hank re-living a t...
‘Everest’ Contest Results
We’ve climbed every mountain. We’ve searched high and low. We’ve followed every byway and every path we know. With all that done, let’s reveal the winner to last week’s ‘Everest’ contest.
‘Legends of Tomorrow’ Pilot Recap: “Time Travel
Based on the first episode, ‘Legends of Tomorrow’, the new spinoff from ‘Arrow’ and ‘The Flash’, is DC Comics’ most ambitious television undertaking to date. It’s also undoubtedly go...
‘The Boy’ Review: Dull, Dumb Doll Horror
Porcelain dolls are creepy. Most folks can agree on that. However, movies based solely on that idea are becoming increasingly, mind-numbingly stale. January horror flick ‘The Boy’ tediously clings to tired tropes. Unle...
Weekend Box Office: No Dinero for De Niro
Between the three poor new movie releases and the East Coast getting pummeled with snow, this was a very weak weekend at the box office.
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of January 24th, 2016 – Duck, Duck
The last few weeks each brought an exciting hit movie or two to Blu-ray. Wasn’t that nice? This week reminds us that we’re stuck in the January doldrums.
Weekend Roundtable: Alien Invasions
Aliens are everywhere these days. No, not the immigrant type that certain blowhard political candidates want to build a wall to keep out of our country, I’m talking about extraterrestrial aliens who’ve come to take ove...
‘The Expanse’ 1.07 Recap: “This Is a Game of Pr
Following two fairly disappointing episodes, ‘The Expanse’ came back this week with a much stronger entry. Considering that we only have a few more episodes left in the season, I hope the show can keep up the momentum.
Weekend Movies: 2016’s First Wave of Bad Movies
January is often the home of some of the new year’s very worst releases – movies so bad they didn’t belong in either the fall awards season nor in the blockbuster summer season. The only other potential burial ground f...
‘One Floor Below’ Review: Suspense on Simmer
There’s something almost hypnotically gripping about Romanian director Radu Muntean’s deliberately mundane suspense thriller ‘One Floor Below’. Take almost any scene out of the movie to view in isolation an...
‘Dirty Grandpa’ Review: Bad De Niro, Very Bad De Niro
‘Dirty Grandpa’ is a flat-out horrible movie. Stale, unfunny and offensive in unintentional ways, it’s the nadir of the contemporary R-rated comedy. The pain of sitting through this nonsense is made substantially...
‘The 5th Wave’ Review: YA Sci-Fi Enters Self-Parody
OK ‘tweens, listen up. I’ve watched a lot of these dystopic YA romances in recent years. I’ll admit that ‘The Hunger Games’ grew on me and that I too read many sad, dark, two-dimensional tales when I ...