‘Boyhood’ has received a lot of free marketing and curiosity regarding its central stunt of filming a single actor over the course of twelve years. However, Richard Linklater’s latest film is far from a parlor tr...
Released barely a year after the first ‘Planes’ and boasting a running time that barely qualifies as feature length, ‘Planes: Fire & Rescue’ was clearly conceived as a direct-to-DVD cash-grab, but coul...
Words have meanings. Especially when it comes to the marketing of a product sold to consumers, using the correct meaning of those words is helpful, if not required. When a so-called “Limited Edition” item turns out to ...
As you may recall (since I went on about it at some length in previous posts), toy company Super7 released a really cool line of retro-styled ‘Alien’ action figures at the end of last year. In case you needed an excuse...
These days, I don’t know what’s more frustrating about CBS’s ‘Under the Dome’: the fact that the show continues to be so incredibly stupid, or the fact that it continues to be the highest rated series...
What trials and tribulations will this week’s episode of ‘The Last Ship’ bring? How will the crew manage to overcome every obstacle? Obstacles like “Which storyline will we follow?” and “Who gav...
Once the centerpiece of any home entertainment system, the antiquated Video Cassette Recorder is now a relic of times past, if not a laughingstock. Do you still have or use a VCR?
For all the disappointment we’ve gotten at the box office, one summer event has lived up to its hype: the television return of American hero Jack Bauer. For the past eleven weeks (and twelve hours), the cast and crew of R...
For the majority of its running time, I was convinced that this week’s new ‘True Blood’ was just another filler episode designed to bide time between more important plot-points. Surprisingly, by the end, it comes...
Vampires and killer viruses rule the Sunday night TV schedule this summer. At 9PM, we have ‘True Blood’ on HBO concurrent with ‘The Last Ship’ on TNT. Then at 10PM comes FX’s ‘The Strain’,...
If you’re reading this blog post on the internet, you should have quick and easy access to your choice of free dictionaries that can tell you that the word “extant” does not at all mean the same thing as the word...
The first season of FX’s murder mystery series ‘The Bridge’ started out with incredible promise, but eventually devolved into a formulaic, over-the-top serial killer story reliant on too many implausible coincide...
