‘Girls Trip’ Review: An Oddly Serious Romp
Take a peek at any of the trailers or posters for ‘Girls Trip’ and you’ll think you’re being sold a wacky R-rated “girls behaving badly” comedy not unlike the movie ‘Rough Night’ tha...
Take a peek at any of the trailers or posters for ‘Girls Trip’ and you’ll think you’re being sold a wacky R-rated “girls behaving badly” comedy not unlike the movie ‘Rough Night’ tha...
Tupac Shakur was one of the most fascinating and influential artists of the early 1990s. He lived a life so grandiose and insane that it always seemed destined for the bio-pic treatment. Unfortunately, Benny Boom’s movie pro...
‘Gotham’ has worn me down. I’m exhausted by it. Frankly, I found a lot of this season a slog to get through. When I sat down this week to watch the season finale, I was both relieved that I’ll be getting a ...
As we come up on the season finale of ‘Gotham’, I feel like even the characters on the show are confounded by the plotting. More than one of them this week questions the motivations or logic of another, before ultimate...
It would really benefit ‘Gotham’ if the show-runners would dial back and embrace a less-is-more approach to the material, preferably with a shorter season of 12 or 13 episodes focused on a couple of really tight storyl...
The past few weeks have been very busy and I’m still catching up on the many TV season finales that aired recently. Forgive the lateness of some of these recaps, but I still plan to follow through with shows I’ve follo...
As soon as the show introduced the concept of resurrection from the dead, it was an inevitability that Jada Pinkett Smith would return to ‘Gotham’ as arch villainess Fish Mooney. (Please don’t moan about spoilers...
Well, here’s a new one: a movie about male strippers is now officially a franchise. Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Magic Mike‘ was a truly unexpected charmer when it popped up on screens with glistening abs and a thr...
Before ‘Gotham’ started last fall, the show seemed almost destined for failure. That it turned out to be much better than expected was a very welcome surprise. This week, the first season blazed to a close with a very ...
This week’s episode of ‘Gotham’ answers a particularly nagging question: What kind of parent would name a child “Fish Mooney”?
I think one of the reasons that some viewers haven’t embraced Fox’s ‘Gotham’ is a matter of tone. The show has a very heightened and, for lack of a better word, “cartoonish” vibe that may seem f...
Although I liked it well enough, last week’s premiere of ‘Gotham’ received a very mixed reaction from many viewers, especially regarding the performances of stars Ben McKenzie and Jada Pinkett Smith, both of whom...