I’m currently finding myself disappointed with the end of “Angel” Season 4 in my “Rewatching and reviewing the classics” project, because the story of a secretly evil god coming to Earth and making her followers blindly happy while she eats them for sustenance is too broad of an idea to work on a week-to-week basis. […]
Ask “Star Wars” fans to list notoriously bad “Star Wars” yarns through the years, and No. 1 will of course be the 1978 “Star Wars Holiday Special.” Some will add the two “Ewoks” movies and some will throw in the “Ewoks” and “Droids” cartoons (assessments that I disagree with). Some will mention the giant green […]
“Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23” (8:30 p.m. Central Wednesdays on ABC) — which unfortunately really is titled that way, with the “B—-” pronounced “Bee” so as not to offend all the kiddies who are tuning into to programs aimed at adults, even though several of the characters use the actual word — is pretty […]
Sometimes it takes a while to appreciate perfection. Don’t get me wrong; I thought “Titanic” was a great movie the first time I saw it, and it easily made my top 10 of 1997. I didn’t begrudge James Cameron for his success with the film, although my younger self wished he had made another “Terminator” or “Aliens” instead. At my second […]
I distinctly — and fondly — remember how shocking “American Pie” was when it came out in 1999, starting with Jim’s dad (Eugene Levy) walking in on Jim (Jason Biggs), continuing through the pie scene and peaking with Michelle’s (Alyson Hannigan) flute-related revelation.
Don’t let the fact that it’s based on an ’80s TV series you’ve probably never seen turn you away; “21 Jump Street” is, rather inexplicably, the funniest movie to hit theaters in a good long while.
“The Killing” (8 p.m. Central Sundays on AMC) continued to unfold like a great page-turner in its two-hour Season 2 premiere on Sunday, delivering a lot of new surprises and questions but most importantly providing the “Whew!” revelation we were all hoping for: Detective Holder (Joel Kinnaman) isn’t a bad guy after all.
The idea of getting a weekly dose of the girl from “(500) Days of Summer” was irresistible when “New Girl” (8 p.m. Central Tuesdays on Fox) debuted last fall, but the public seemed to think a regular blast of the “too cute, too quirky” Zooey Deschanel was too much and the backlash started to arrive.
How in the world does one explain the huge popularity of the “Twilight,” “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “Hunger Games” book/film series? I mean, I can understand “Harry Potter,” and I’m a fan of those books and movies myself. But where “Potter” provides a lusciously realized and wondrous world, adorable characters and plenty of […]
As someone who loves stories and the different ways they can be told, I’ve been smitten by “The Last One Standing: The Tale of Boba Fett” ever since its publication in “Tales of the Bounty Hunters” in 1996.