Some serials seem to grow stale with age, especially when they attempt to continue their "ripped from the headlines" approach to issues. Blue Bloods, entering its eighth season in September, is not one of them. While my wife and I discovered the series starring Tom...
From the Canadian writer/director team of Cal Brunker and Bob Barlen (Escape from Planet Earth,?upcoming?Son of Bigfoot),?The Nut Job 2?is the clever sequel to the 2014 animated film starring Will Arnett that?wasn't?The Lego Movie?... but was just as funny. Starring...
Selected for the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival, The Fare is a chilling story of human trafficking starring Johnny Ortiz (American Crime) and Noemi Pedraza. Written and directed by Santiago Palandine, the film tells of a young Ecuadorian teenager ensnared...
In?Snatched, Amy Schumer's Emily Louise Middleton gets fired from her job (which she's terrible at) and dumped by her boyfriend (which she tries to play off as her own decision). She returns home, licking her wounds, to the delight of her brother (Ike Barinholtz) and...
Teenage noir drama??Twin Peaks?meets?Veronica Mars??Vampire Diaries?without?vampires? Any of these qualifications would well describe The CW's?Riverdale?where the good-natured, amiable world of high school sophomore Archie Andrews (KJ Apa) gets dirtied up as a...
Maddy (Amandla Stenberg) can't go outside. It's not some kind of violent, Leatherface/Misery?mashup. Her mother just won't let her, because her mother says her extreme immuno-deficiency disease prevents her from exploring the outside world without fear. When Olly...
When I first talked to Remi Adeleke, he was just days away from his first box office action film,?Transformers: Last Knight. Having survived the Bronx as a young man, and the Navy Seals as a young adult, monstrous CGI robots were hardly enough to intimidate him. But...
We're not alone. We're never alone. Have faith.-- The Novice Forced to travel on a holy pilgrimage from the only home he's ever known, The Novice (Tom Holland,?Spiderman: Homecoming) leaves his Irish Catholic monastery with a few other priests to deliver a relic to...
Guy Ritchie famously reinvented Arthur Conan Doyle's?Sherlock Holmes?with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, while also updating?The Man from U.N.C.L.E.?(with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer). But I fear that he has gone too far in the tearing down of the Arthurian legend,...