Weekend Movies: Sequels, Spin-Offs, Sci-Fi and Pot
This weekend gives us a variety of new movies. Pick your poison, but be warned: The most unlikely movie might be the only one that’s actually worthwhile.
This weekend gives us a variety of new movies. Pick your poison, but be warned: The most unlikely movie might be the only one that’s actually worthwhile.
Network executives love spinning off movies into TV shows. With a popular title comes instant brand recognition. Sometimes this works (‘M*A*S*H’). Often it doesn’t. Two of the most promising shows currently on th...
As if one new TV series designed as a prequel/reboot of an iconic serial killer movie franchise (A&E’s ‘Bates Motel‘) weren’t enough, NBC attempts to pull off the same trick with ‘Hannibal’,...
Although the A&E network’s new drama series ‘Bates Motel’, a modern-day reboot of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Psycho’, doesn’t officially premiere until this evening, many cable networks have...
On Monday, TNT brought its long-running police drama ‘The Closer’ to… well, to a close. Immediately afterwards, the network then premiered that show’s spin-off, called ‘Major Crimes’. While I...
After seven seasons, TNT’s police drama ‘The Closer’ will end its run this coming Monday, and will be immediately followed by the premiere of its new spin-off series ‘Major Crimes’. While I’ve p...