‘iZombie’ Season 5 aims to continue delicate balance
First episode impressions (TV review): Rose McIver’s comic-book dramedy returns for its final season.
‘iZombie’ Season 5 aims to continue delicate balance
‘Unbreakable’ (2000) a rare ‘real-world’ superhero story
Superhero Saturday (Movie review): Shyamalan’s hyped follow-up to “The Sixth Sense” is dripping with style as it tells a superhero’s origin story.
‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Season 12: The Reckoning’ (2018) (Comic book review)
“Buffy” Season 12 should ideally be longer than four issues, and I’m guessing it would’ve been 12 issues if the timing had worked out better. But Fox brought the “Buffy” license back in-house – ending Dark Horse’s 21-year run with the title and canceling this 11-year canonical continuation of the TV series – so Joss […]
‘Can’t Hardly Wait’ (1998) is a generation’s graduation party
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): This sweet comedy stands as a generation’s benchmark graduation party film.
‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ stays strong in Season 1, Part 2
TV review: “Sabrina” (and Sabrina herself) stays strong – but occasionally gets goofy – in Season 1, Part 2.
‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Giles: Girl Blue’ (2018) (Comic book review)
During the time of “Buffy” Season 11, Giles is off at high school in Los Angeles in the clunky four-issue series “Girl Blue” (February-May 2018). It’s credited to Joss Whedon and Erika Alexander (also an actress, who has a role in “Get Out”), but since I get no sense whatsoever that this is a Whedon […]
‘Avengers: Endgame’ is prestige superhero entertainment
Movie review: After a slow opening 90 minutes, “Avengers: Endgame” regains its footing as prestige superhero entertainment.
‘Lakeboat’ (2000) favors writing and acting over plot
Mamet Monday (Movie review): This play adaptation is a showcase of writing and acting – if you can deal with the lack of a plot.
‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Book of the Dead’ (2004) (Book review)
As she did with “Buffy: These Our Actors” (2002), co-written with Dori Koogler, Ashely McConnell writes an “Angel” novel – “Book of the Dead” (July 2004) — that makes me wish she wrote more than two Buffyverse books. Unlike most of the tie-in authors, McConnell isn’t shy about building on the established mythology. “These Our […]
Summer movies 2019: After watching the trailers, I’m excited for some of these films, not so much for others (Commentary)
I watched the trailers of some notable summer movies so you don’t have to (but they are embedded here if you want to). Here are my thoughts on each, along with a “Go Bananas” Level (on a 10-point scale) of how excited I am for the picture: