Among other things, this week’s new batch of Blu-rays brings us an aging action star struggling to maintain relevance in the current cinema market while a new talent claws her way up to the top for the first time.
When a movie franchise has been around as long as James Bond has, the majority of viewers going to see ‘Spectre’ this weekend weren’t even born when the first film, ‘Dr. No‘, was released to theaters ...
Over the last decade or so, squealing 1980s comedy icon Bobcat Goldthwait has unexpectedly become one of the most intriguing and even daring filmmakers of his generation. Through his bleakly comedic and emotionally sincere directo...
Alongside four mostly promising limited releases, this weekend offers two new entries to very old properties.
It was inevitable that there would be a ‘Peanuts’ movie one day. Even though newspaper comic strips hardly hold the power and popularity they once did, those holiday specials still run every year like clockwork and bri...
What is it about monorails that the people in alternate universes love so much? This week’s episode of ‘The Flash’ takes us briefly to Earth Two, which I’m pretty sure is the same alternate Earth from ̵...
It occurs to me that ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ is guilty this season of the exact same stunt that ‘The Walking Dead’ just pulled – deliberately delaying the resolution to a cliffhanger with an extended flash...
At its best, the Daniel Craig era of James Bond has been all about reinvention. ‘Casino Royale’ kicked things off with an origin story that allowed the Bond conventions to be twisted through the character’s inexp...
As ‘Grimm’ enters its fifth season on NBC, I’m not really sure how the show has lasted this long. It ran out of steam a couple seasons back, and Season 4 in particular was pretty weak. I’ve stuck with the s...
This week’s episode of ‘Gotham’ is filled with back-stabbings and double-crosses that move the show’s plot forward in some big ways. In contrast to last season, I feel like some of the storylines may be mov...
After a pretty strong pilot episode, the big question going into Episode 2 of ‘Supergirl’ was whether the show would continue to fly or would take a nose dive into mediocrity. Well, not only is this second entry pretty...
As much as I enjoyed the early episodes of ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’, I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop when the series will experience the type of seemingly-inevitable quality decline it has in e...
