Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 14th, 2015 – Malfunction,
From hip-hop gangsta robots to the resurrected dead, this week’s Blu-rays sure do feature some wild tales. Welcome to our latest roundup. Let’s get down to business.
Tag Archives: The Newsroom
Weekend Roundtables: Career Turnarounds
Sometimes, an actor just needs to find the right role to suit his or her talents. In this week’s Roundtable, we discuss the actors that we used to dislike, even hate, until one project finally turned their fortunes around.
‘The Newsroom’ Series Finale Recap: “Be a Fathe
In the series finale of ‘The Newsroom’, Will McAvoy gives up being a news anchor and joins a Country-Western band! Well, that’s exactly what it may have felt like to viewers who tuned in late to the episode. As series enders go, t...
‘The Newsroom’ 3.05 Recap: “It Looks Like Urine
The penultimate episode of ‘The Newsroom’ turns out to be a rather mixed bag, with some good and some not-so-good subplots, plus a shocker of an ending that I’m still not sure how I feel about.
‘The Newsroom’ 3.04 Recap: “I Find Your Irish S
One of my favorite things about ‘The Newsroom’ was the idea that the show would take major real-life news stories and provide “hindsight” commentary (although not for the characters) on the events. However, we’ve gotten very littl...
‘The Newsroom’ 3.03 Recap: “I Still Don’t
After opening the season with two strong episodes, it’s perhaps no surprise that this week’s entry of ‘The Newsroom’ is a little weaker. However, it’s still a good episode that continues the major storylines of this final season a...
‘The Newsroom’ 3.02 Recap: “You Walked Right Pa
Despite not having anything to do with a historical news story, nor even featuring any scenes of characters delivering an on-the-air report or commentary, the second episode of the final season of ‘The Newsroom’ is another solid o...
‘The Newsroom’ 3.01 Recap: “An Unwelcome Opport
Followers of my past recaps of ‘The Newsroom’ and/or my reviews of the Blu-rays already know my position on this HBO series. I was a huge fan of the first season, but I thought Season 2 almost completely took away everything I lov...
Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 2nd, 2014 – Woke Up Th
This week’s new Blu-ray slate brings us one of the greatest TV shows of all time, an extended cut of a movie that was already too long, and some 3D movies that the studios aren’t bothering to release in 3D (at least, not in the Un...
Odds & Ends: Director Obsessions and Screenwriter Break-Ups
Because my available time to write is more limited these days than I’d like, I’ve decided to create a post to compile some quick-hit thoughts on news that might be pertinent to the interests of this blog.
‘The Newsroom’ 2.09 Recap: “What I Have CanR
One wonders if ‘Election Night, Part II’ was written with the thought that it might be a series ender for ‘The Newsroom’. The Season 2 finale has no cliffhangers, and at least two major characters wind up at points in their relati...
‘The Newsroom’ 2.08 Recap: “I’ve Appointe
It’s the beginning of the end for ‘The Newsroom’ in ‘Election Night, Part 1’, this season’s penultimate episode. The fallout of the Genoa story has hurt the reputation of the ‘News Night’ team, and Charlie is determined to make su...