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Fincher’s stylish touch makes flawed ‘Gone Girl’ more engaging than it deserves to be (Movie review)

Since it’s the latest film from director David Fincher, who has a stylish knack for capturing the gritty essence of neighborhoods and bars and police

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After 10 episodes, let’s check in on ‘Gotham’s’ rogues gallery

With an impressive 8.2 IMDB rating through 10 episodes, “Gotham” has achieved the challenging feat of making familiar material fresh without alienating fans. As the first serious

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With 2 episodes left … whodunit on ‘Gracepoint?’ (TV commentary)

With just two episodes left on “Gracepoint” (8 p.m. Central Thursdays on Fox), it seems like a good time to revisit the question I posed earlier in

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‘Rebel Heist’ tells stories of heroes from point of view of ‘regular guys’ (Comic book review)

One of the pleasures of the TV series “Rebels” is seeing a small Rebel cell do its thing within the growing Rebellion. Hera knows their

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‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ goes out on an incomplete, but high, note with ‘Lost Missions’ and story reels (TV review)

While I and most fans will always be irked that “The Clone Wars” wasn’t allowed to bring its character threads to natural conclusions, I have

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘MedStar I: Battle Surgeons’ (2004) (Book review)

In the Season 5 finale of “The Clone Wars,” Barriss Offee goes to the dark side, driven by her frustration with the corrupt Republic and

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All 22 episodes of ‘Gilmore Girls’ Season 6 (2005-06), ranked

“Gilmore Girls” Season 6 (2005-06, The WB) is the season I remembered the least about. Even though I watched every episode when it aired, there were

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Carrey, Daniels totally redeem themselves with ‘Dumb and Dumber To’ (Movie review)

“Dumb and Dumber To” opens with Jim Carrey’s Lloyd Christmas revealing his 20-year fake stupor to best bud Harry Dunne (Jeff Daniels) with a “Gotcha!” Harry

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘Visionaries’ (2005) (Comic book review)

After the hard work of providing conceptual art for “Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,” 11 artists got to cut loose with short stories or

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‘Star Wars’ flashback: ‘The Clone Wars: The Sith Hunters’ and ‘Darth Maul: Death Sentence’ (2012) (Comic book reviews)

While this year’s “Darth Maul: Son of Dathomir” is a continuation of Maul’s “Clone Wars” TV arc, taken directly from unproduced Season 6 scripts, Dark

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