The fifth season of HBO’s Girls aired its two-part finale this past weekend, and rather than feeling like a show that had run its course, it demonstrated a renewed creative potential. Although Girls has remained a reliably interesting show for its duration, the last two seasons suffered from an occasional lack of direction. It wasn’t …
Divinity was easily one of the best things released by Valiant in their entire history and was one of the best mini-series in comics last year. Bringing the exact same creative team back for this second series entitled Divinity II is very exciting indeed.
Directed by Ferne Pearlstein Running Time: 85 Min USA DOC What is the role of humor in processing horrific events in history? When does a joke go too far? Who is allowed to joke about the Holocaust? When it comes to massive wounds in a collective consciousness when does laughter heal and when does it …
The only thing that saves ‘A Hologram for the King’ from reaching disaster status is the luminous presence of Sarita Choudhury.
Publisher: DC Comics Created By: John Broome and Carmine Infantino Alter Ego: Giovannie Giuseppe Notable Alias: James Montgomery Jesse Team Affiliations: Rogues, Secret Society of Super Villains, Black Lantern Corps Abilities: skilled acrobat and con-artist, above average intelligence, and innocent looking gadgets and gizmos WARNING: SPOILERS Deadly teddy bears, exploding Christmas presents, fake dog vomit, …
‘Elvis & Nixon’ is an actor’s showpiece for Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey to collide in the most bizarre power summit in pop culture history
Star Wars: Darth Vader #19 Written by Kieron Gillen Art by Salvador Larroca Colors by Edgar Delgodo Letters by Joe Caramagna Published by Marvel Comics WARNING: SPOILERS “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” -Yoda, The Phantom Menace A major plot point in the previous issue of Kieron Gillen’s …
Y’know, I honestly have no idea how X-Men: Apocalypse is gonna shake up, in terms of quality or box office performance. Not that I can usually predict these things with any sort of accuracy, but it seems like the kind of movie that would be just as likely to under-perform as it is to be a …
I was excited about Nerd Land. It’s an R-rated comedy with a great cast, and some truly funny people behind it. It’s a movie about fame, too, a movie about people who are desperate to get ahead. I loved Nightcrawler, and I generally love the idea that Hollywood is capitalism at its worst, a place where getting ahead means …
Criminal Written by Douglas Cook and David Weisberg Directed by Ariel Vromen U.K., U.S., 2016 Should you browse through the A-list caliber of the cast and decide to give Criminal a chance, don’t. A film where CIA agents swap minds with violent sociopaths seems like it should be a fun surprise like 2014’s Lucy, but …
Vinyl, Season 1, Episode 10: “Alibi” Written by Terence Winter Directed by Allen Coulter Airs Sundays at 9pm on HBO Prior to the penultimate episode of Vinyl’s first season, HBO announced that co-creator and showrunner Terence Winter would be leaving the show, supposedly over creative differences (usually code for low ratings and/or critical disapproval). Although filled with …
“Pinewood” does a great job at setting up Gordon, Bruce and company to go up against the threat of Hugo Strange, it also presents a great upcoming obstacle with its final moment.
*Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite.* The BioShock franchise is one of the most beloved in the modern era of gaming, being a model for storytelling and world-building to developers and creators across the industry. With the rumored existence of a BioShock collection for the Xbox One and PS4, …
We should probably be more careful. In Command and Control, the latest documentary from Food Inc. helmer Robert Kenner, we get an inside look at nuclear proliferation through the lens of a single, 1980 incident. This incident, one which was caused by simple human error, was almost a cataclysmic event that shook the entire world …
Delmer Daves, an excellent, diverse director, does an extraordinary job at creating a subtly crafted sense of dread in The Red House, shooting many of the same locations by day and by night (interiors and exteriors), setting up the contrast in atmosphere when darkness falls.
I’m sitting, writing a review of a movie. I do this not because anyone forces me to, or even because it’s a particularly lucrative field. I love movies. Always have, hopefully always will. Like many people, I use the worlds presented in the things I watch and read to make sense of the one I …
War movies have been a fixture of the cinema since its inception. Similarly, war itself has been a fixture of humanity’s existence since its dawn. Some films contemplate the pointlessness of war, attempting to use incredible levels of violence to suggest that war itself is a horror, something that could never be engaged in. Other …
The prospect of Patrick Stewart playing a badguy kind of makes you balk when you first hear it. Stewpat? Professor X? CAPTAIN PICARD? A baddie? Nope, can’t see it. But if reviews of Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room are to be believed, Stewart is frighteningly good in the role of the patriarch of a clan of white-supremacist hillbillies. …
Once upon a time, shmups (AKA shoot ’em ups) were so prolific they caused currency shortages. Such is the power of video games! Space Invaders started the mania back in 1978, revolutionizing the shoot ’em up genre and becoming a national obsession for the Japanese before charming US audiences. With its success, others naturally followed: Gradius (1985), R-Type (1987), DoDonPachi (1997) and Ikaruga (2001) continued to define the …
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 1, Episode 11: “The Magnificent Eight” Story by Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim Teleplay by Marc Guggenheim Directed by Thor Freudenthal Airs Thursdays at 7pm ET on The CW The Legends go back to the Wild West in a sweet, mostly effective episode that continues the series’ run of stronger …
‘The Jungle Book’ is an embarrassment of visual riches that thoroughly entertains on every level.
Spider-Man #3 Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Sara Pichelli Color Artist: Justin Ponsor Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit Publisher: Marvel Comics In an issue picking up immediately after last issue’s shocker that involves Miles Morales expanding family crashing down around him, the reader and Miles are given a change to catch their breath and prepare to …
Heartthrob #1 Written by Christopher Sebela Art by Robert Wilson IV and Nick Filiardi Published by Oni Press Heartthrob is a story about the heart, both figuratively and literally. It’s also probably the second book in the market right now to be a love story with a side of crime that could go wrong, but …