‘The Gifted’ Pilot Recap: “You’re with Us
As if we don’t have enough superheroes on TV already, Fox now brings us ‘The Gifted’, an official spinoff of the ‘X-Men’ feature film universe. Even with a pilot episode directed by franchise mastermi...
As if we don’t have enough superheroes on TV already, Fox now brings us ‘The Gifted’, an official spinoff of the ‘X-Men’ feature film universe. Even with a pilot episode directed by franchise mastermi...
The premiere of Marvel’s newest spinoff series, ‘Inhumans’, arrives with its death certificate practically signed. After a disastrous debut in IMAX theaters a few weeks ago, the ABC network has already started he...
If nothing else, ‘Annabelle: Creation’ is at least better than any prequel to a spinoff should be. Like last year’s ‘Ouija: Origin of Evil’, this is better than the movie that preceded it thanks to hi...
The Spike network’s ‘The Mist’ is the latest attempt to turn a Stephen King story into a serialized television drama. With that in mind, most fans of the author (or of quality television) must surely be questioni...
Noah Hawley has been a pretty busy guy this year. In addition to creating and launching the supremely weird superhero drama ‘Legion‘ a few months ago, Hawley’s fascinating and often hilarious spinoff of the Coen ...
Hugh Jackman claims that he’s hanging up the Wolverine claws after ‘Logan’. James Mangold’s battered and embittered love letter to the wounded warrior is one of the most pained and deep deconstructions of t...
The FX network has kept a lot of the details about its new series ‘Legion’ secretive or vague. Even after a 90-minute premiere, I can’t say that I’m entirely certain what happened in it. Somehow, that may a...
‘The Lego Movie’ shouldn’t have been nearly as good as it was. The product placement pop culture extravaganza could have been a wearily commercial enterprise designed to sell expensive pieces of plastic, but turn...
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...
Assuming that ‘Rogue One’ is a success (and there’s every indication that it will be a huge success), Disney and Lucasfilm plan to expand ‘Star Wars’ with more spinoff films between the main Episodes....
Living up to its promise, Disney has delivered another ‘Star Wars’ adventure to the world just in time for Christmas. This trip to that galaxy far, far away doesn’t continue the new saga that J.J. Abrams started ...
You’d think that eight ‘Harry Potter’ movies would be enough, but that’s not how Hollywood works, silly. J.K. Rowling’s beloved children’s series captivated a generation with a distinctly magica...