Viewers who’ve stuck with ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ this long were rewarded with two pieces of good news this week. ABC has officially renewed the series for a second season (and has also picked up a ‘Captai...
The title of Showtime’s new horror fantasy series ‘Penny Dreadful’ practically begs for a snarky pun at its expense, doesn’t it? Fortunately, I’m relieved to report that the show isn’t dreadful ...
Swiss surrealist artist H.R. Giger, the man who designed the title creature in the sci-fi classic ‘Alien’, passed away on Monday after suffering injuries in a fall. He was a truly unique talent.
As you’re no doubt aware, the Big G – Godzilla himself – returns to movie theaters this weekend in a new American reboot. (Let’s hope this one is better than the Roland Emmerich version.) In anticipation of that, let&#...
If last week’s season premiere reminded fans of everything great about ’24’, this week’s entry reminds them of everything that often goes wrong with this series. Although the episode count this season has b...
When the “Previously on…” clip at the start this week played a montage of all the enemies that Tyrion has made throughout the series, I could tell that this would be a very fun episode of ‘Game of Thrones’....
Despite some stiff competition, this week’s clear headliner among new videogame releases is the latest ‘Walking Dead’ episode. Of course, time-traveling ‘Contra’ needn’t be ashamed to take secon...
One of the great things about ‘Orphan Black’ is that the show never spends too much time on a single plot thread. If a character gets into trouble at the end of one episode, he or she will usually find a way out of it ...
Over the Mother’s Day weekend, Seth Rogen and Zac Efron hot-boxed theaters around the country, while Spider-Man’s webs failed to swing him into a second week’s win.
I don’t know about you, but my Mother’s Day was pretty busy this year – what with motherhood being a more immediately relevant and pressing issue in my household now. I feel like this should be an official work holiday...
We’re going to try something a little different in this week’s Roundtable. Inspired by the new Seth Rogen comedy ‘Neighbors‘ (which is not, as far as I can tell, a remake of the 1981 John Belushi/Dan Aykroy...
After last weekend’s blockbuster superhero kick-off to summer, this week brings some counter-programming. We have a crude R-rated comedy, an awful-looking animated flick, a light-hearted family movie and a few indies to kick...
