This week’s poll was inspired by a conversation that sprung up in the Comments of our last Blu-ray Highlights post. Do you ever go to a movie theater by yourself, or does it make you uncomfortable to see a movie in the cinem...
After last week’s action-packed episode, it was perhaps only natural that ’24’ would slow things down again this week. However, although Jack Bauer doesn’t have a single action sequence (aside from knocking...
Over the past week, the producers of ‘Game of Thrones’ have made the PR rounds promising that, contrary to previous seasons, the show’s finale episode this year would be big – the biggest season finale yet. Could...
Following E3, the stream of actual videogame releases (as opposed to teasers and announcements) continues to be slow. Nevertheless, EA launches its next huge franchise for the new consoles.
Things are getting interesting on ‘Orphan Black’. Season 2 presented its penultimate episode this week. After last week’s trans-clone episode, which may have been the worst the series has ever done, this weekR...
After the success of ’21 Jump Street’ in 2012, it’s little surprise that the sequel would open strong – but strong enough to trump the ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ sequel by $10 million? No one saw that...
This week may only bring a small volume of new Blu-ray releases, but packed within the short list of titles are some real standouts. Maybe not everything is awesome, but at least a few things could be.
Hollywood is going to continue adapting old TV shows into new movies. That much is a given, and there’s no sense in fighting against the trend. For this week’s Roundtable, we toss out some suggestions for source materi...
I miss the good old days when summer blockbusters were original material. This year, you can’t go more than two weeks without a sequel or a remake, and fantastic original movies like ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ can’...
The ’21 Jump Street’ movie shouldn’t have worked, but then the filmmakers actually made that the main joke. The same is somehow true of ’22 Jump Street’. On paper, it’s a terrible idea for a mov...
‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ might not have the advantage of being a pleasant surprise like the original film, but it recaptures almost all of the charms of its predecessor with ease. The action is intense, the animati...
Like all movies by writer/director James Gray (‘The Yards’, ‘Two Lovers’), ‘The Immigrant’ is a melodrama that the filmmaker somehow mines for genuine human emotion. His great talent lies in fin...
