‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 4.07 Recap: “You’
All the time-jumping from past to future on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ this season is getting to be annoying, especially in this week’s episode. Somebody should tell the writers that they’re not doing ‘W...
‘Westworld’ 2.07 Recap: “You’re Free to C
‘Westworld’ delivers another big, very busy episode this week. It has so much going on that I could barely keep up taking notes. It also has one really terrible scene that shouldn’t have gotten past the scripting...
‘Upgrade’ Review: RoboVengeance
Unease with the intersection between our bodies and technology is nothing new. Going all the way back to Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ we have a strong cultural history of wanting to push the boundaries of what n...
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 3rd, 2018 – Just One Littl
Even a giant 50-foot Oprah couldn’t save one of this week’s Blu-ray releases from being a major box office disappointment earlier this year. Or maybe that’s the reason it was such a disappointment. Let’s pu...
Weekend Roundtable: ‘Roseanne’ without Roseanne
Roseanne Barr committed career suicide by Twitter this week, and ABC very rapidly announced an immediate cancelation for the revival of her self-titled sitcom, which had been a ratings smash this year. Already, however, there has ...
‘Adrift’ Review: All’s Not Lost Yet
A couple of fundamental things work in favor of Baltasar Kormákur’s latest film, ‘Adrift’. First is our core connection to survival yarns, which are surely as old as human communication. Secondly is our connectio...
Cannes Journal: ‘The Image Book’
For a period in the mid-1960s, the name Jean-Luc Godard conveyed a god-like figure in French cinema. A former critic who turned the film world upside down with his wild editing style, crisp dialogue and jazzy plotting, Godard help...
Cannes Journal: ‘Knife + Heart’
Many cinephiles find a certain thrill about films done in the style of their heroes. Sometimes this works wonders – take Paul Thomas Anderson’s fascination with Robert Altman, or Scorsese’s with Powell and Pressburger....
‘Reverie’ Pilot Recap: “We’re Just Gettin
About a decade ago, Sarah Shahi had a breakout role opposite Damian Lewis on NBC’s short-lived but fondly-remembered detective procedural ‘Life’. She returns to the network now to headline the sci-fi drama ‘...
One Man’s Trash: Bedeviled
When the Devil knocks at your door, he doesn’t have cloven hooves. He is beautiful and offers you your heart’s desire in whispered airs, like a siren beckoning you to ruinous shore. Or maybe he’s a digital assist...
Cannes Journal: ‘Wildlife’
Paul Dano explodes out of the gate with his directorial debut. ‘Wildlife’ immediately establishes him as an independent director to be contended with. Written in collaboration with Zoe Kazan and based on a novel by Ric...
Cannes Journal: ‘Yomeddine’
Superficially, ‘Yomeddine’ has the makings of a treacly mess, the kind of forced “feel good” film that uses the backdrop of extreme poverty to tell some life-affirming fable.