Amid reports of intense behind-the-scenes turmoil that resulted in a nearly two-year absence since the first season aired, Starz’s dazzling if confounding American Gods has finally returned for a second outing. Has the serie...
With bold and provocative films like The Living End, Nowhere, and The Doom Generation, Gregg Araki became a standout figure in queer cinema during the 1990s. He’s directed a little bit of television since then, including som...
Watching Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas face off is the main attraction of I Walk Alone, a by-the-numbers film noir that rarely rises above the mundane. Yet thanks to these two iconic tough guys, the hard-boiled tale of betrayal ...
In contrast to its typically sluggish pace, The Walking Dead has a pretty eventful week this time out. The latest episode juggles three major storylines, and interesting things happen in at least two of them.
Poised to dominate the Blu-ray and Ultra HD scene this week is the latest entry from the Wizarding World. But could this year’s surprise Best Picture winner sneak in and upset the sales charts the way it upset the Oscars?
After her Oscar win for Room, Brie Larson jumped right into the gargantuan Kong: Skull Island and is now headlining a mega-budget Marvel superhero flick. Our Roundtable this week looks at other actors who’ve made the leap fr...
I knew little going into Triple Frontier save for the obvious. The film is being released theatrically for a short window before hitting Netflix, it’s directed by J.C Chandor (whose Margin Call, All Is Lost and A Most Violen...
High school isn’t easy, and high school movies have always tried to capture that uniquely uneasy feeling. Giant Little Ones is a drama about going through the social growing pains of gaining autonomy and all that involves, b...
According to horror movie logic, there are a number of reasons why a group of presumably intelligent people would head out into the woods, voluntarily. 30 Miles from Nowhere, as the title suggests, is another one of those isolated...
The CW and Syfy networks nearly converge this week as The Flash delivers a cheesy monster smackdown not far removed from something The Asylum might produce. I assume the resemblance is deliberate.
The ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe has a need to keep adding new characters to stay fresh and fun. Also, considering that Avengers: Infinity War killed off roughly half the cast, heroes and humans alike, it seems like a ...
Rumors and allegations about child molestation have tarnished the image of Michael Jackson for so long that the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland probably shouldn’t be shocking or even controversial at this point. That it...
