A Technicolor film noir with overt homosexual overtones, Desert Fury is a fascinating and wildly entertaining Golden Age anomaly that teems with tension and flirts with camp. How on Earth did this subversive, titillating flick eve...
It looks like the rest of The Walking Dead this season is essentially going to be a countdown clock ticking off the time until Henry dies. Can we speed that up and make it happen in the next episode? Please?
As alarmist opinion pieces proclaim the imminent death of physical media (thanks for nothing, Samsung!), I’m sure not seeing any slowdown in the number of Blu-ray and Ultra HD titles being released, for movies both big and s...
Earlier this week, Glenn Close was denied the Academy Award that everybody thought she’d win. The actress can take comfort that this puts her in good company with plenty of other veteran actors and filmmakers who also someho...
Advertised ceaselessly for months, ABC finally debuted its new spy drama Whiskey Cavalier after the Oscars this past weekend. Anyone who didn’t bother to stay up so late for it (and I certainly didn’t) got a second cha...
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Returning home on Halloween night, a knife-wielding, escaped mental patient mercilessly stalks a babysitter. If you’re bracing yourself for a straightahead rip-off of Halloween,...
As much as I love the concept of Gillian Anderson playing a kooky sex therapist, Netflix’s new(-ish) comedy series Sex Education takes a few episodes to figure out what kind of show it wants to be.
Director Stanley Donen may be gone, but because of films like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, he will never be forgotten. The classic frontier musical with Jane Powell and Howard Keel is one of Donen’s most beloved films, a...
The Walking Dead had almost three-quarters of a good episode this week, which is much better than average for recent seasons. Sadly, one idiot character has to go and ruin the whole thing.
Down Three Dark Streets pulls back the curtain on the FBI as it chronicles a trio of investigations in a semi-documentary style. Broderick Crawford and Ruth Roman star in this splintered tale that’s salvaged by an array of f...
Wrapping up the awards season hoopla, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Razzies both also handed out trophies this weekend. The Spirits did a decent job of offering concession prizes to movies that Oscar would pass over, while...
By the time this post is published, the Oscars should be over. (With that interminable ceremony, there’s a chance maybe not.) Some of this week’s new disc releases were nominated. Did they win anything? I’d guess...
