Blue Bloods has a comfortable feel, like the way you expect Mr. Rogers to take off his shoes, to be wearing a sweater. It stems from the (mostly) calm presence of Tom Selleck as NYC Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, who leads the protection of his city and the care of his family with the same measured… [Read More]
NCIS – The Fifteenth Season: The Loss of the Family
If you’re a fan of Naval Criminal Investigation Service 0r NCIS, then you know already that the fifteenth season of the hit CBS show will forever be defined by the departure of Pauley Paulette. While it continues to roll on with original material involving cases that touch on military life around Virginia, there will be a hole there… [Read More]
First Reformed: How Is It With Your Soul
Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) faithfully pastors the 250-year-old First Reformed Church, even as he struggles with his guilt and grief over the death of his son in Iraq and the dissolution of his marriage. He is no longer sure that God hears his prayers, and he doubts that he is lovable by another human… [Read More]
Arrow -The Complete Sixth Season: We are Family (Well, Sometimes…)
Green Arrow’s family has been expanding, but the weight and responsibility of being the patriarch, the mayor of Star City, and, of course, the masked vigilante with the nifty arrows might break him when Arrow’s sixth season rolls around. With cross-overs to the other DC properties, namely The Flash and Supergirl, the season has its fair share of explosions,… [Read More]
How to Talk to Girls at Parties: And They Said Earth Girls Are Easy
“They must be from California.”– John (Ethan Lawrence) Three young punk enthusiasts stumble into a strange (oh, so strange) collection of alien prepubescents in 1970s London, where Earth boy Enn (Alex Sharp) falls hard for the alien Zan (Elle Fanning). Based on a short story by Neil Gaiman (Stardust, American Gods, Coraline), the obliviousness of… [Read More]
Strike Back – Season Five: Section 20 Finds Retribution
In the latest iteration of Cinemax’s Strike Back series (called Retribution abroad and Season Five in the U.S.), a crack team of international Special Forces types go after a terrorist and his wife. While longtime fans of the show will enjoy seeing Sullivan Stapleton (Blindspot) and Philip Winchester (Chicago Justice, Law & Order: SVU) return, fans old and… [Read More]
Avengers – Infinity War: We’re Out of Time
I don’t know that I’ve felt this much of a disturbance in the Force since the final seconds of The Empire Strikes Back wrapped up. Maybe, just maybe, the ending of The Two Towers left me with that sense of desolation. But the ache in my gut as the first-half of the end of the Marvel coda, Avengers: Infinity War,… [Read More]
Supergirl (1984): Distant Cousins #TBT
Alexander Salkind and his son Ilya Salkind backed into success with the Superman (Christopher Reeves) series when director Richard Hamilton failed to prove available and they snagged Richard Donner (who’d only found success with The Omen, but went on to The Goonies and Lethal Weapon) and for the role. Tom Mankiewicz touched up the script that Mario Puzo (The Godfather)… [Read More]
Like Father: A Honeymoon Cruise Like No Other
Veronica Mars Kristen Bell teamed up with Kelsey Grammer for a sometimes funny, sometimes sad, middle-of-the-road dramedy about a jilted bride who reconnects with her estranged father on her honeymoon cruise. Netflix’s Like Father is B-movie material that the streaming giant hopes will keep you home from the theater one night. Ad exec Rachel Hamilton… [Read More]
Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger: Through Shadows and Light
Two lesser-known characters of the Marvel Universe, Cloak and Dagger are an African-American man and a Caucasian woman tied together by their powers revolving around darkness and light. Bill Mantlo (who also created Rocket Raccoon) spun Cloak and Dagger out of Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man in March 1982, but they have been featured in stories… [Read More]
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