TV premieres will always have the need to hook the audience from the opening frames to engage them for ratings and word-of-mouth publicity. Leaving a woman in a body bag naked and covered with tattoos in the middle of Time Square certainly has that kind of power – like the openers to?Lost,?The Following,?Game of Thrones…
Gotham?is the best DC television show on TV, since?Smallville. While?Arrow,?Supergirl, Krypton, DC Legends of Tomorrow, and others have entertainment value – and bring a new flair to how their subject matter is presented -?Gotham?regularly provides an opportunity to see the hometown of one Bruce Wayne AKA Batman from a new perspective without so diluting the…
Puppets abound in the latest film from screenwriter Todd Berger, a noir comedy that combines the clever work of the Jim Henson Company and the dynamic talents of Melissa McCarthy. In The Happytime Murders, McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, Joe McHale, and Elizabeth Banks star alongside a blue puppet named Phil Philips (played by Bill Barretta) in…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
“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…
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…
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,…
