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]
Alone on the Island of the Blue Dolphins
Every year many fourth grade students read Island of the Blue Dolphins in school. The book is a fictional account based in a historic tale of a Native American woman who spent eighteen years alone on San Nicolas Island (part of California’s Channel Islands). Alone on the Island of the Blue Dolphins is a documentary… [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]
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]
Breaking In: Gabrielle Union v. Billy Burke, For the House Money
If you try and take Breaking In too seriously, you may be disappointed. But if you can sit back and enjoy a bit of “mama bear in defense of her cubs” action, then Gabrielle Union’s fiery mother rescuing her kids from Billy Burke’s creepy but inept house robber may be the popcorn fodder you need from Redbox… [Read More]
Life of the Party: The Schools of Hard Knocks & Education
Deanna Miles (Melissa McCarthy) put her ambition and dreams aside when she found herself pregnant as a rising college senior. Her chauvinistic and appearance-driven husband Dan (Matt Walsh) pushed her to quit college, but when he quits on their marriage during their daughter Maddie’s (Molly Gordon) senior year, Deanna returns to college herself and transforms… [Read More]
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