When I saw the lineup of new Fall TV shows, I thought it looked like the worst selection in recent memory: Lots of unnecessary remakes along with tired new shows that didn’t have hooks. I owe the Fall TV season an apology, because it has turned out to be the best in the past 10 […]
Movie review: The writer-director delivers an even better scare flick in his sequel to “The Conjuring.”
Karen Traviss’ “Republic Commando” series started off with a pulpy war mission novel, “Hard Contact,” which also snuck in the notion of clones as thinking, feeling human beings – something that most prior novels and the people of the fictional GFFA ignored. In “Triple Zero” (2006), Traviss ratchets up her game by bringing the action to Coruscant […]
One-season wonders (TV review): This WB series takes a crack at a “Batman”-without-Batman saga.
Commentary: An analysis of Entertainment Weekly’s list of elite superheroes.
“Frequency” (9 p.m. Wednesdays on The CW), in its original incarnation, was a pretty good 2000 movie starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel that I don’t remember much about other than the premise: A father and son communicate through time via a ham radio, allowing the son to save the father’s life. The new TV series […]
“No Tomorrow” (9 p.m. Tuesdays on The CW) has an out-there premise similar to “Last Man on Earth” and “The Good Place.” Awkward, pretty Evie (“The L.A. Complex’s” Tori Anderson, occasionally slipping into her Canadian accent) meets suave dreamboat Xavier (Joshua Sasse), who believes the world will end in eight months. The show – at least […]
Watching the clone troopers arrive with Yoda on Geonosis in “Attack of the Clones” in 2002, it was easy to think of them as organic robots. “Star Wars” fans now see clones as human beings in every meaningful way, and the EU began to shape that sentiment even before George Lucas addressed the issue in […]
Now in its third season, “Star Wars Rebels” (8:30 p.m. Saturdays on Disney XD) has almost entirely caught up to “The Clone Wars” in production value. Even though Disney is spending less money than Lucasfilm did, the animated library of elements is now vast enough to give “Rebels” a more vibrant look, while still retaining the concept […]
Two episodes into its run, “Designated Survivor” (10 p.m. Wednesdays, ABC) continues to pay lip service to the idea of a president who is in over his head. Indeed, President Tom Kirkman (“24’s” Kiefer Sutherland) SHOULD be overwhelmed by this job that he’s thrust into after the 10 people above him in the line of succession are […]