Amazingly, ‘The Strain’ did something really daring and interesting this week. Without any introduction or context at all, the episode opened with five minutes worth of scenes from an old black-and-white Mexican wrestl...
Here’s hoping this sorry excuse for an episode is just the calm before the BATTLE STORM! Ugh. This is the ‘Spider-Man 3’ of episodes. EVERYBODY gets a chance to cry. There’s no crying in the apocalypse! Wit...
The interesting thing about the latest episode of ‘Hannibal’ is how faithfully the show (which has always played very fast and loose with its source material in the past) is attempting to adapt the Thomas Harris novel ...
After a couple weeks of teasing it in ads, ‘Under the Dome’ has finally delivered a crazy new episode that could be considered a major game-changer… that is, if anyone actually cared about the narrative on this show, w...
I think few would argue that the penultimate episode of ‘True Detective’ this season is one of the best. Now, don’t misunderstand me, I wouldn’t rank this week’s episode as a great hour of TV by any d...
Even though it may not have performed at quite the same monetary level, the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise pulled a ‘Fast and Furious’ this weekend by topping the charts and boosting its series to nearly-n...
Our recent Blu-ray dry spell breaks somewhat this week with the release of one sort-of-hit movie that made a decent amount of money earlier this year. To be honest, that one’s probably not very good, but several smaller titl...
One of the great advantages that movies have over, for example, stage plays is the ability to go places. As a plot device, the road trip has fueled countless films from at least as far back as ‘It Happened One Night‘ t...
Two new wide releases movies contend for your attendance this weekend. One is from a franchise we’ve come to trust, and the other from a franchise that hasn’t been worth watching in decades.
It’s bizarre to think that Tom Cruise managed to will an old TV series into a film franchise that’s kept trucking for 19 years and counting. Yet here we are with a fifth ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie thatR...
Filmmakers Kief Davidson and Daniel Junge certainly deserve points for excellent timing, if nothing else. Their feature length documentary love letter to Lego likely never would have gotten a theatrical release were it not for the...
Anyone who has ever angrily turned off a news network because they couldn’t stand the bipartisan bickering can now turn to ‘Best of Enemies’ for the origin story of that ugly trend. In theory, a documentary about...
