G.I. JOE: RETALIATION: Not Even For Free – Endlessly Dumb Exercise In Boom-Boom Action There’s a difference between making a movie for 11-year old boys and having a script that seems to have been written by...
THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND – Sunday 10PM on AMC Even as AMC announced the upcoming termination of the WALKING DEAD mothership after one more super-sized season, the network went all-in on the franchise, unveili...
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY – Episodes available each Sunday at CBS All Access – In the Quene There are quite a few perils to reaching a judgment about the new STAR TREK: DISCOVERY based on its opening hour, the o...
THE HUNGER GAMES: Worth A Ticket – The Odds Are Mostly In Its Favor Now that virtually every blockbuster movie opens in IMAX, going to an IMAX theatre at this time of year provides a de facto trailer festi...
If Ryan Murphy’s goal with the second season of AMERICAN CRIME STORY was to demonstrate the breadth of the show’s anthology branding, not just in subject matter but in style and structure–unlike the rel...
Everything is a little smoother in 2002’s HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS. The young actors give more assured performances; Steve Kloves’ script, having gotten so much exposition out of its w...
FINAL DESTINATION 5 – Watch It At Home: Death Takes No Holiday There’s only one thing worth mentioning in FINAL DESTINATION 5… and it’s the one thing I can’t talk about. Let’...
LAW & ORDER TRUE CRIME: THE MENENDEZ MURDERS – Tuesday 10PM on NBC – Change the Channel Dick Wolf is one of the most successful producers in the history of television, but the one thing he’s never...
> So what just happened, and what’s likely to happen next? Here’s a quick look at what’s new in Panem: FINAL NUMBERS: It turns out THE HUNGER GAMES wasn’t such a hit after all, earning a meas...
STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS: Worth A Ticket – Another Satisfying Trip On the Enterprise J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot cohorts, writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, did a bang-up job rejuvenating the Star Trek fra...
It was all so cute when it started… David Yates’ 2009 HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE is surprisingly funny at times–surprising, because in all other ways the film was, up to that point, by far t...
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES – Worth A Ticket: Simian Power Although it’s positioned as the last big adventure epic of the summer, for most of its length Rupert Wyatt’s RISE OF THE PLA...