The Reagans are back – and better than ever. While some procedural shows seem to stall out (or worse, use the same storylines over and over again), the beauty of this show about a family on one side of the law is that it continues to make us care about the struggle. The law may…
Back in 1984, director brother Joel and Ethan Coen teamed with first-time cinematographer Barry Sonnefeld to deliver their first feature film,?Blood Simple. They would go on to work together again on Raising Arizona and?Miller’s Crossing, but their combined filmography includes?O Brother, Where Art Thou?,?No Country For Old Men,?Men in Black, Fargo,?Get Shorty, and a host…
Longmire?is one of the best shows on television or, at least it was, until it was cancelled by A&E and picked up by Netflix! Now, for those who don’t stream shows, Warner Bros. and Netflix is releasing the fourth season of the hit, modern-day western about the exploits of Absaroka County sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert…
So, there are these four teenage brothers who fight crime, but they happen to be … turtles. Who knew that these Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be so popular thirty-two years after they first appeared in the comics? Of course, thanks to the production of Michael Bay, the second in this cinematic iteration has more…
Let’s get this out of the way early: there aren’t many returning shows that actually have me?excited?about the return of television shows and streaming episodes. Sure, I’ll be watching the fourteenth season of?NCIS?and the third season of?Scorpion?because they’re like a good pair of old slippers: I know just what I’m getting. Absolutely, I’ll dive back…
The Iron Giant?is an old-school animated adventure that highlights the unearthed prowess of director Brad Bird. While this was his animated debut away from Disney, Bird is best known for his work on?The Incredibles?and?Ratatoille, as well as live-action films like?Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol?and?Tomorrowland. It’s obvious that the man knows how to blow things up beautifully…
With a star-studded cast to top even the first film,?Now You See Me 2?blends Penn & Teller with?Ocean’s Eleven, proving to be wildly entertaining, clever, and dazzling. It’s a lark of epic proportions! In hiding, Atlas (Jamie Eisenberg), Merritt McKinney (Woody Harrelson), and Jack Wilder (James Franco) continue to wait for their next ‘assignment’ to…
In 2011, before Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and American Sniper, Bradley Cooper starred with Robert De Niro in a ?little? thriller called Limitless, based on Alan Glynn?s novel The Dark Fields. Now, Cooper executive produced a CBS series of the same name about the powers of mind that one man inherits when he takes…
Here’s my annual preview of my most anticipated films for the fall. The beauty of a list like this is that that everyone will agree – especially my cohorts here at ScreenFish! So check out my list, and consider what I’ve missed – and let us know. In the disaster film category, there are two…
In Disney’s live-action adaptation of?The Jungle Book, veteran action director Jon Favreau pushes young Neel Sethi through the paces as Mowgli, with the help of a few voices you’ve heard before. Yes, the story is primarily the same to the original 1967 animated classic about the boy raised by wolves. But in the end, families…
