The title and setting of ’71’ suggests that audiences are about to settle in for a political drama about one of the most troubled times in Irish history. Indeed the film is steeped in historical baggage and even has a ...
If you told me 10-15 years ago that there would be a live action ‘Cinderella’ movie directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by half the directors of ‘American Pie’, I would have told you to “Shut yo m...
When it was announced that Adam Sandler would make a movie with writer/director Tom McCarthy (‘The Station Agent’, ‘The Visitor’), I admit to feeling a little excited. After all, Sandler was fascinating in ...
Issue-based documentaries can often be annoying works of righteous indignation and preaching rather than actual films. It’s rare that an issue doc could be described with a word like “cinematic,” and certainly Ki...
It’s a shame that ABC has another show on the air right now called ‘Secrets & Lies’, because that would have made a good title for this week’s episode of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’.
‘Merchants of Doubt’, the latest documentary from ‘Food, Inc.’ director Robert Kenner, takes on the issue of pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities to cloud controversial topics (...
A&E’s new drama ‘The Returned’ is the official American remake of the acclaimed French series ‘Les Revenants’. Unfortunately, its premise is uncomfortably similar to the recent ABC series ‘...
When we last saw Norman Bates, he had just passed a polygraph test proving that he had nothing to do with the death of his high school teacher, Ms. Watson. Of course, the reason Norman passed was because he had a hallucination of ...
The hard-sell ads for ABC’s new drama ‘American Crime’, which repeatedly toss around the word “extraordinary” as if to berate viewers into unquestioning acknowledgement that this is already one of the...
I will admit to approaching the USA Network’s new mystery adventure series ‘Dig’ with a high degree of skepticism. Ads for the show made it look like a lame ‘Da Vinci Code’ knockoff. Of course, someti...
Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, the late Robin Williams and the rest of the gang (yes, even the monkey) are back in the family sequel ‘Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb‘. If you have kids, there’s a good chance t...
Episode 13 of ‘The Walking Dead’ this season may not be jam-packed with action, but it certainly has a lot of interesting things going on. Our main characters are beginning to come to terms with their new community in ...
