I’m currently buried under a couple feet of snow and the forecast calls for more next week. Right about now, the prospect of watching Lara Croft adventure through an island jungle seems pretty appealing. Let’s look at ...
For as frustratingly uneven as this season of ‘The X Files’ has been, I’ll give the show credit that several episodes, including this week’s, have felt like they could have come right out of the original se...
It’s puzzling to me that studios have recently invested so much into reboots of existing properties that weren’t all that great to begin with. (See: ‘Death Wish’). The execs can’t be so far removed th...
At the start of the year, we did a Roundtable dedicated to the movies we were looking forward to this year. As I put together my picks, I looked at this weekend’s releases and glazed right over them for a reason: nothing loo...
‘The Flash’ has a pretty fun premise this week, but the episode is strangely very slow to deliver on it. That seems ironic for a show about speedsters.
The latest entry of ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ drops a couple of plot twists and delivers a major fan-service moment at the end, but I can’t help noticing that everything else in the episode is totally inconsequent...
If the producers of ‘The Walking Dead’ are concerned about the show’s declining ratings this season, something tells me that an episode mostly focused on third-tier characters like Gabriel and Eugene isn’t ...
Disney was its own worst enemy this weekend. The studio’s latest family adventure movie failed to reach the top of the box office, losing to another Disney film that’s been around for a month already.
Fresh off its Oscar victory, this year’s Best Picture winner comes to Blu-ray and UHD this week. In doing so, it draws a lot of attention away from a big superhero epic that failed to live up to its hype.
In our Roundtable this week, we look at some of our favorite fantasy films made for children. What were your favorites when you were young? Which ones still hold up to rewatching as an adult?
Aussie cinema has been ramping up over the last dozen years, but the country’s films haven’t quite broken into the American mainstream yet. While Nash Edgerton’s gritty dark comedy ‘Gringo’ doesn̵...
It should be no surprise that last week’s playfully inventive episode of ‘The X Files’ was an anomaly this season. The show returns to classic monster-of-the-week form this week, to some mixed results.
