‘Ghosted’ Pilot Recap: “The Head Should Not Hav
Fox’s new comedy ‘Ghosted’ mashes up bits of ‘Men in Black’, ‘Ghostbusters’, various 1980s buddy-cop action movies and other obvious influences, and then largely shoves them to the backgro...
Fox’s new comedy ‘Ghosted’ mashes up bits of ‘Men in Black’, ‘Ghostbusters’, various 1980s buddy-cop action movies and other obvious influences, and then largely shoves them to the backgro...
HBO’s new drama series ‘Big Little Lies’ is a prestige production stacked with multiple Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy winners and nominees both in front of and behind the camera. Ultimately, that seems like kind o...
Twisting the festive joy of Christmas into something sinister never ceases to tickle the shriveled hearts of weirdo cynics like myself. Sure, most folks like their holiday entertainment dripping with sap and shining with sentiment...
Somewhere over the last decade, “rom-com” became a dirty term in Hollywood. To be fair, that was mostly the result of tediously cranked-out movies that sullied the genre out of acceptable date night rotations. However,...
The tale of Boston crime lord James “Whitey” Bulger is so good that it’s surprising it took this long for someone to make a movie out of it… or at least an official bio-pic anyway. Martin Scorsese flavored his ...
A good cringe comedy doesn’t know when to quit. There’s a point when laughable embarrassment crosses over into deep discomfort and a point where that can be pushed into the creepy. Toying with that sort of nervous tens...
The biggest joke in ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ was the fact that the movie even existed at all. It was beyond idiotic and that was the charm. ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2’ doubles down on this dumbness, and at times...
Two disaster films open this week. One is about a disaster, and the other simply is a disaster.
If you go into ‘Friends with Kids’ expecting to see a comedy in the vein of ‘Bridesmaids‘ (which is what the ads make it out to be), you’ll probably be disappointed. ‘Friends with Kids’ is...
When the end of the month rolls around, Netflix takes the Leonidas approach: “Give them nothing, but take from them everything!” Nothing is what we get this week. Well, that’s not entirely true. We get mainly cra...
Last Thursday was a good night for NBC’s comedies. ‘Community’ excelled, ‘Parks and Recreation’ shone, and ‘The Office’ did things a little differently than usual.
TV show holiday-themed episodes tend to be pretty bad. (See ‘Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas‘.) But this year’s Valentine’s Day offerings from NBC were generally good. In fact, I’d go as far as ...