Long before Blu-ray, before even DVD, the Laserdisc was king of the home theater world. Yet despite surviving for over twenty years, the venerable videodisc format never caught on with the mainstream, and most kids today have prob...
New on ‘The Last Ship’: Costa Rica! Vaccines! Monkeys! All the important upcoming plot points are laid out for us this week. Well, except maybe it’s Nicaragua instead of Costa Rica. I’m still not sure.
For the second week in a row, ‘True Blood’ spends the better part of an hour meandering through storylines with little urgency before climaxing in a last-minute action scene designed to keep viewers on the hook for mor...
We’re two episodes in, and Guillermo del Toro’s new vampire series ‘The Strain’ already suffers an endemic flaw that has crippled many other horror movies and TV shows: Most of its characters are idiots.
If Hollywood has taught us anything, it’s that computers will eventually gain sentience and, as their first order of business, exterminate the human race. Come to think of it, perhaps Hollywood hasn’t actually taught u...
None of this weekend’s new movies could defeat Caesar and his dawning planet of apes.
This is the sort of week where I have very little good to say about the new Blu-ray releases. Unfortunately, we’re going to hold a contest later today to give one of them away, so I should probably tone down my snark a littl...
This week’s Roundtable was inspired by a couple of TV shows currently on the air. Have you ever found yourself hate-watching a show just so that you could complain about it afterwards, or at least so that you’ll unders...
When one of the biggest movies of the weekend is set in a post-revolution future, it’s my wish that we could band together and revolt against all three of this weekend’s big studio flicks.
Ten years and one controversial Kickstarter campaign later, Zach Braff’s mildy anticipated directorial follow-up to ‘Garden State‘ has arrived. His new film highlights all of the strengths and weaknesses of that ...
A sex tape sex comedy sounds damn near impossible to screw up, especially with a pair of comedic actors as game as Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel at the center. Unfortunately, something went drastically wrong at some point during pr...
When ‘The Purge‘ proved to be an unexpected hit last summer, a sequel was pretty much inevitable. However, the fact that the sequel made it to screens in roughly twelve months should have been a sign that something was...
