Weekend Movies: Prey Time
The only serious competition for the four-week-old ‘Black Panther’ this week is one of Disney’s own movies. However, the critically panned kids’ flick is unlikely to dethrone it. Three other wide releases a...
‘The Flash’ 4.15 Recap: “I Can’t Save Us
In the midst of a very uneven and frustrating season, ‘The Flash’ delivers not just its best episode of the year, but perhaps one of its strongest ever. That’s a very pleasant surprise.
‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Review: Time Is Not on Your Side
When Disney isn’t making billion-dollar ‘Star Wars’, Marvel, and animated movies, the studio does less well with over-ambitious, tone-deaf fluff like 2015’s ‘Tomorrowland’. Unfortunately, Ava Du...
‘The Walking Dead’ 8.10 Recap: “Standard Messag
‘The Walking Dead’ aired a new episode against the Oscars this week. I opted to watch the Oscars live and delayed ‘The Walking Dead’ another day. As I feared, the show spent an hour catching viewers up on a...
‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ 5.11 Recap: “Have You
Hasn’t Natalia Cordova-Buckley been great playing Yo-Yo on ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ this season? Let’s give her a hand. As a matter of fact, let’s give her two.
The 2018 Spirit and Razzie Awards
After four consecutive years of simply mirroring the Oscars’ Best Picture pick, the Independent Spirit Awards actually attempted to follow their mission this year and rewarded a different movie that Oscar passed over. Meanwh...
Weekend Box Office: Cat Eats Bird
Marvel’s latest standalone superhero adventure continued to dominate the box office over Oscar weekend. At the same time, Jennifer Lawrence’s spy thriller and Bruce Willis’ action reboot saw decent, but unimpress...
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of March 4th, 2018 – A Sound of Th
The old idiom about March coming in like a lion isn’t just about weather this year. The month starts off with a ridiculously huge assortment of new Blu-ray releases, including a Marvel blockbuster, a few critical darling Osc...
2018 Oscar Winners
Following a year where Hollywood nearly self-destructed from countless scandal after scandal and huge cultural shifts, I suppose the fact that this year’s Oscars were largely boring and uneventful is something of a relief.
Weekend Roundtable: 2018 Oscar Snubs
Oscar season finally ends this Sunday. As the Hollywood elite declare which movies they think were the best of 2017, let’s look at a few the Oscars ignored this year.
‘The Death of Stalin’ Review: Brutal Political Humor
Not everyone can take a tragic political bloodbath out of history and transform it into one of the finest (and funniest) comedies of the year. Not everyone is Armando Iannucci. Beloved by some (mostly British) and tragically lacki...
‘Nostalgia’ Review: Wistfully Disappointing
The trickiest movies to review are the ones that just miss the mark. Raving about something brilliant or heavily poo-pooing a piece of garbage are easy enough. Finding the words to describe that awkward place between effective and...