After the first episode ended on such a crazy plot twist, Part 2 of Syfy’s ‘Ascension’ miniseries naturally spends a lot of time trying to justify what that means and how it works. Perhaps unavoidably, this episo...
Bizarrely, my DVR recording of last Friday’s episode of ‘Constantine’ listed the episode title as ‘The Saint of Last Resorts, Part 2’, even though we’d never had a Part 1 and this is clearly the...
Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ trilogy might not be as strong as his ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, but at least it isn’t another ‘Star Wars’ prequel debacle. Now that all of the tedious...
What’s this, actual science fiction on Syfy? Who let that happen? This week, the network is airing its three-part miniseries event ‘Ascension’. With an intriguing concept and high production values, does this shi...
It’s time to reveal the winner of last week’s ‘Gremlins: Diamond Luxe Edition’ Blu-ray contest. Before we do, I’d like a little feedback from our readers. Do you find catalog titles like this worthwhi...
In the series finale of ‘The Newsroom’, Will McAvoy gives up being a news anchor and joins a Country-Western band! Well, that’s exactly what it may have felt like to viewers who tuned in late to the episode. As s...
I’ve mentioned a bunch of times already during ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ that I haven’t bought into the decision to make spoiled rich crybaby Dandy Mott the primary villain for the season. Now tha...
Despite featuring a new blockbuster, this was yet another disappointing weekend at the box office, and points to to a grim outlook for the final month of the year.
Last week brought us the Blu-ray release of one of the most popular and well-liked movies of the year. This week… doesn’t. But it has Michael Bay’s latest attempt to cynically exploit a 1980s children’s property....
Hugely complicated, elaborate and above all expensive, Hollywood loves to make epic movies with lavish production values and a proverbial (sometimes literal) cast of thousands. As Ridley Scott brings ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings&...
Twelve days into the lucrative month and we’re just now getting our first December blockbuster. The question is: How will this end-of-year Biblical epic stack up to 2014’s first, Darren Aronofsky’s wild and out t...
A prize winner from the Tribeca Film Festival, Talya Lavie’s ‘Zero Motivation’ is practically bursting at the seams with barbed humor, moving observations and workplace satire. This tale of several young girls co...
