Binge-Watching ‘Game of Thrones’
Two weeks ago, I hadn’t watched a single episode of ‘Game of Thrones’. Then I had cable installed in my new place and got three months of free HBO. So, my wife and I checked On-Demand and didn’t look back u...
Two weeks ago, I hadn’t watched a single episode of ‘Game of Thrones’. Then I had cable installed in my new place and got three months of free HBO. So, my wife and I checked On-Demand and didn’t look back u...
This week’s videogame releases reveal what the world would look like with only a deadlight to show the way. Plus, we get some sort of Disney dream drop, Awesomenauting and a few classic re-releases.
This week’s Blu-ray release slate is low on new titles that many people are likely to have heard of, and heavy on double-bill reissues of previously released movies. However, we also have a handful of really good classics on...
It was time to get organized. My movie collection had gotten far too large for me to remember everything I owned, and I’d already lost at least one title [so long, ‘(500) Days of Summer’] when I let someone borro...
Despite the tragic shooting in Colorado and inconsistent word-or-mouth, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ easily nabbed the #1 spot this weekend with $64 million. The ten-day totals for this trilogy-closer are north of $289 mill...
Do you remember that first, disastrously awful Blu-ray edition of ‘The French Connection’? With a video transfer that completely changed the original photographic style of the movie and looked like garbage, yet was sup...
Here we are in the heart of the summer movie season, when visual effects spectacles reign supreme. Unfortunately, as we’ve seen over the years, some of these films put more effort into their effects than others. We’ve ...
How nice is it to turn on your DVR and discover that it has recorded a show that you really like but, because you weren’t paying attention to its network, hadn’t realized was already back with a new season? That happen...
What kind of movies think they can go head-to-head with the Caped Crusader? Little ones – little movies that aren’t even close to playing on the same field as ‘The Dark Knight Rises’. This week, we have an R-rate...
I’m trying to think of a more dismally unfunny comedy than ‘The Watch’, but I can’t. (Maybe ‘The Dilemma’.) The movie is 98 grueling minutes of dick jokes. Unfunny dick jokes.
After all my complaining, you may wonder why I still watch ‘The Newsroom’. Quite simply, with all the talent involved, I know that this show must have potential. Unfortunately, the first four episodes didn’t live...
Expectations mount for Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest drama about damaged people in a kinda, sorta history of Scientology, while Zack Snyder tackles the ‘Man of Steel’ for a second reboot.