Weekend Roundtable: Rotten Kids
Moms put up with a lot. As we head into Mother’s Day this weekend, let’s take a moment to remember some of the brattiest, whiniest, and most ill-behaved children from movies and TV who have made their parents’ li...
Moms put up with a lot. As we head into Mother’s Day this weekend, let’s take a moment to remember some of the brattiest, whiniest, and most ill-behaved children from movies and TV who have made their parents’ li...
He may have only rarely acted as a leading man, but his stern yet handsome looks and gravelly voice made him an immediate standout in countless supporting parts. Veteran character actor Powers Boothe has passed away at the age of ...
Fox’s new ’24’ spinoff premiered after the Super Bowl this week (starting at 11 PM in many markets and 1:30 AM where I am in Boston) with a new lead actor but the same old formula. Is this really a good moment in...
From simply incompetent to outright evil, movies and TV have given us countless bad politicians over the years. Regardless of whether you’re happy with the outcome of this week’s U.S. Presidential election or not, let&...
The current American Presidential election has been going on for what feels like forever. At this point, it seems like most of the public doesn’t like either candidate very much. If you could vote for a fictional President f...
The season finale cliffhanger has been a time-honored TV tradition ever since ‘Dallas’ left viewers guessing “Who Shot J.R.?” over three decades ago. Nevertheless, when ‘The Walking Dead’ ended ...
The character death ret-con, in which a fan-favorite character is traumatically killed off, only for the story’s writers to miraculously bring him or her back later through an unbelievable plot contrivance, is one of the mos...
This week is all about those Robots in Disguise as Michael Bay’s latest rock ’em sock ’em sequel hits Blu-ray, and everything else moves out of its way.
For all the disappointment we’ve gotten at the box office, one summer event has lived up to its hype: the television return of American hero Jack Bauer. For the past eleven weeks (and twelve hours), the cast and crew of R...
It’s time for the season’s penultimate episode of ’24’, and quite possibly the next-to-last time we’ll ever see Jack Bauer in action. ‘Live Another Day’ has been (despite that horrible tit...
After a handful of episodes that seemed to take place at a breakneck speed, ’24’ was bound to slow down a bit before wrapping up. This week’s episode is very much a transitional entry as viewers learn who’s...
As if there were any doubt, this week ’24’ established itself as the best action series on television with an explosive episode that wraps up one storyline while setting things up for another that will carry us over th...