Originally, the season’s Darin Morgan-penned comedic episode of ‘The X Files’ was scheduled for this week, but either the producers or the network decided to juggle the order of things and move one scripted by Ch...
After the success of ’13 Hours’ and ‘American Sniper’, it looks like January is becoming a hot month for patriotic war films. This week brings the declassified true story of the first soldiers to enter Afgh...
It wasn’t that long ago that we finally celebrated the end of Nicholas Sparks’ reign of terror. Tragically, his spirit lives on. In ‘Forever My Girl’ we now have an unofficial Nicholas Sparks stink pile. Th...
A surprise winner of the Best Foreign Language Film trophy at the Golden Globes, ‘In the Fade’ is not a particularly easy or inspiring movie that one might expect to triumph at that ceremony. Harsh and even cruel to au...
Returning from the holiday break, ‘The Flash’ picks up with an episode predicated on some pretty flimsy plotting. That’s not exactly unusual for this show, but it seems especially pronounced this time.
Not to minimize its legitimacy in any way, but it’s fairly obvious that The CW’s new superhero series ‘Black Lightning’ was greenlit to compete with Marvel’s ‘Luke Cage’ and perhaps cash i...
A reader last week asked why I continue to watch ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ when I’m so disappointed with this season. Like many viewers who’ve already invested a significant amount of time with a series, I f...
‘Proud Mary’ tries to position itself as an homage to the empowered and insane 1970s Blaxploitation genre, mixed in with some contemporary female-driven actioners like ‘Atomic Blonde’. That’s somethin...
Even with three new wide releases and one major expansion stealing away audiences, the ‘Jumanji’ sequel was able to retain the top spot at the box office for the second consecutive week. The nearest competition was $9 ...
After the box office disappointments of ‘Tron: Legacy’ and 2011’s ‘The Thing’, you’d think Hollywood would learn better than to make another long-delayed sequel to a famous cult sci-fi movie fro...
As we look out over the calendar, a whole year’s worth of movies await us. Some will be great, and some will be awful. Let’s hope for the best. What new movies coming out in 2018 are you most anticipating?
Many of the best documentaries are true-life dramas that the filmmakers never would have predicted would unfold when they began production. They’re just lucky enough to be in the right place in the right time. Alon and Shaul...
