The school year is starting up again, and our site’s Steven Cohen recently wrote up a Gear Buying Guide for College Dorms that includes HDTVs, speakers, streaming services and more. I don’t know how old you are, but I ...
Here we go again – another August weekend of full of drivel.
Considering how badly it bombed at the box office, it’s remarkable how strong a legacy Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Grindhouse‘ left behind. Made by a handful of east coast Canucks with a VHS c...
Few films about teenagers (especially teen girls) capture that fragile era of life with the necessary level of awkward pain, discomfort and confusion. Teen stories are typically all about raunchy ruckus or inspirational coming-of-...
Some post-apocalyptic tales are big and action-packed like this summer’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. Others are small and quiet like this week’s ‘Z for Zachariah’. One thing that all movies in this ge...
It’s amazing how well some seemingly uncinematic ideas can work as films. Take ‘The End of the Tour’. Based on an abandoned magazine interview that David Lipsky conducted with author David Foster Wallace (which w...
Somehow both nauseatingly tense and lighter than air, ‘Cop Car’ is a hell of a calling card for sophomore director Jon Watts. It’s the type of violent, atmospheric, clever and comedic indie that used to light up ...
Despite the ratings (and largely critical) failure of TNT’s ‘Mob City‘ miniseries, co-star Ed Burns somehow managed to parlay his role as the infamous Bugsy Siegel into a new period gangster drama on the same net...
A tense thriller that never lets up for a second, ‘No Escape’ is an unexpected little late summer gem. It’s dialed up high on action and suspense with only the bare minimum of setup necessary to get there, featur...
Last week on ‘The Last Ship’, we got lots of talking, a little dissecting, a murder mystery, Boyfriend2 avoiding getting laid, and LOTS of torpedoes. This week’s episode is all about sending signals and the good ...
The upside to this week’s episode of ‘The Strain’: We learn a lot about the badass ninja vampire, and he seems pretty cool. The downside: The show’s scripting is still a sloppy, lazy mess.
Unless some other broadcast network or streaming content provider comes through with a last-minute Hail Mary, we are on the verge of the series finale for ‘Hannibal’. While it hasn’t always been a perfect show, a...
