How embarrassing is it for new releases that ‘The Lion King’ is #1 again? For the second week in a row, the 3D re-release of a 17-year-old movie has dominated the box office. Only falling 26.6% in attendance, ‘Th...
As the television networks roll out their new shows for the fall and we judge which ones are worth following and which deserve to be tossed to the wayside, it’s important to keep in mind that not every TV series starts off o...
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival closed shop on Sunday, and it’s about time for me to wrap up my coverage of it as well. Let’s end things with a comedy. For my final review, we’ll take a look...
January and September are two of the weakest months of the year for quality movies, but September has something that January doesn’t: – at least one pre-awards season contender. Opening this week is 2011’s September co...
Over the course of their careers, most major directors will at some point complain that they wish to leave the Hollywood studio system behind to concentrate on “small, personal films,” but then don’t bother to fo...
At first glance, ‘Moneyball’ may look like just another sports movie with star power. In reality, it’s a romantic story about a man and his passion for the game. As odd as that may sound, it works perfectly on ev...
To be honest, the post title above is somewhat misleading because it actually has nothing to do with zombies. However, it loosely ties the following trailers together pretty well. First, the movies are sequels to franchises which ...
The really interesting stuff leaving Netflix this week all comes from outside of the United States, but it’s all very good. Well, most of it anyway. The two best things coming to the stream are homegrown and ridiculously fun...
Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are frequent favorites at the Cannes Film Festival. They’ve been nominated for the coveted Palme d’Or prize five times so far, and have won twice (for ‘Rosetta̵...
It’s a familiar sight in many home theaters – a grizzly wire spaghetti with multiple power strips, each half full thanks to wall warts and oddly-sized adapters. Fortunately, Accell offers up the PowerSquid to help solve that...
Last week’s episode of ‘Project Runway’ was a fake-out. When a bunch of guys walked in at the start of the episode, I thought that contestants were going to have to make menswear, and so did the designers.
By now, I’ve learned to take it as a given that ‘True Blood’ simply has awful season premiere and finale episodes. I’ve been let down with the finales for three straight years, and went into Season 4’...
