When ‘Insidious’ was released five years ago, it felt like a bit of a breath of fresh air in the horror genre that avoided graphic torture porn excess and Found-Footage sloppiness trends for a more classically construc...
A few years ago, CBS tried to develop a TV series based on the Jake Gyllenhaal sci-fi thriller ‘Source Code‘. When those plans were eventually scrapped, the ABC Family network stepped in to create a thinly-disguised Yo...
Ambiguity is a crucial strength of many art films and the death of so many more. It’s a delicate quality to court. Get it right and the film is enigmatically fascinating. Get it wrong and the film is merely frustrating. With...
The question of whether a child’s imaginary friend might actually be real, and evil, is a trope common to many horror movies from ‘The Shining’ to ‘Hide and Seek’ to ‘Drop Dead Fred’ (the ...
This season of ‘Penny Dreadful’ has been confusing and frustrating. Although generally an improvement over last week’s disappointing episode, the latest entry spends a lot of time setting up for a climax it then ...
Remember that iconic scene where James Bond finds himself in an awkward predicament and he says to Goldfinger, “Do you expect me to talk?” – to which Goldfinger cackles, “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die!“...
As if in response to complaints about how slowly this season has moved, ‘Game of Thrones’ delivered one of its hugest action set-pieces ever this week. The show usually reserves these things for the second-to-last epis...
Did you smell what The Rock was cooking? A lot of people sure did.
From a pineapple under the sea to the far reaches of outer space, this week’s new Blu-ray releases attempt to court many audiences. Are any of them actually worth buying? Well, that’s for you to decide.
Every home theater is a perpetual work-in-progress. No matter how much time or money you spend making the perfect movie (or TV, or videogame) den, there’s always some new piece of equipment to buy or some other improvement t...
Last weekend, Damon Lindelof delivered a bad movie (‘Tomorrowland’). This weekend, his ‘Lost’ compadre Carlton Cuse does the same with an epic disaster. At the same time, Cameron Crowe offers his first adul...
Here’s the peculiar thing about ‘Survivor’: It’s an action movie both too somber to offer much fun and too stupid to ever take seriously. The folks involved clearly thought they were going to kick off a new...
