Do you want in or do you want out? That’s a question I ask my young kids all the time as they indecisively hang around in doorways with one foot on each side. Somebody should ask it of the characters on ‘Under the Dome...
Our last TV box set contest a couple weeks ago drew only a modest response. I think that perhaps we’ll do better with a more exciting prize. ‘The Walking Dead’ is one of the most popular shows on television, and ...
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ arrives with a whole lot of goodwill behind it. Thanks to the overwhelming popularity of the series to which it is a prequel, I fully expect this premiere to set some ratings records for AMC. Bu...
As expected, none of this weekend’s three biggest new movie releases put up much of a fight against the reigning box office champs.
As August winds down, we prepare to say goodbye to the summer and, hopefully, to the Blu-ray dry spell we’ve experienced lately. This week actually has a bunch of titles of some moderate interest, but (from my perspective) f...
The communal moviegoing experience can be a lot of fun when you get an audience that’s in sync with both the movie and your own enjoyment of it. At other times, people in theaters say the strangest damn things. In this week&...
Looking at this weekend’s new movie releases, it’s shocking that this is still technically part of summer.
Plenty of bad movies have gotten released this summer, but none quite as irritating and thuddingly dull as ‘Hitman: Agent 47’. This is the second attempt to launch a moderately popular videogame series into a film fran...
Combining a clever premise that twisted around old genre tropes, a creepy villain, some stellar scares, a solid cast and a delightfully fetishistic use of 8mm film stock, Sinister‘ was a pleasant surprise. It seemed familiar...
The challenge in creating a cross-genre mashup is delivering a movie that manages to satisfy while going out of its way not to fall back on certain genre expectations. ‘American Ultra’ teeters on that very thin line th...
It’s been only a few months since Noah Baumbach’s last movie ‘While We’re Young’ hit theater screens, but the master of cynicism is already back with another tale of narcissists on the path to a meltd...
This week’s episode of ‘The Strain’ amounts to a series of missed opportunities. I’m having a really hard time understanding the point of a lot of the show’s storylines this season.
