Michael Chabon’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” (2000) has always been, in the back of my mind, my pick for the Great American
For better or worse, “Slasher” gets ambitious by trying its first period-piece mystery, venturing to 1890s Toronto. Through two episodes, it’s slightly “for worse,” but
Hercule Poirot often travels, even though it seems he would be annoyed by a lot of things about the process of traveling, not to mention
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have sent Agent Pendergast and other characters to many parts of the globe, but for “The Cabinet of Dr. Leng”
As a rule of thumb, I figure religions are neutral forces. Good or evil people will use religion as an outlet for their ingrained good
Before Woody Allen gained enough clout to write and direct his own work, he saw some of it in the hands of other filmmakers –
I knew from the opening minutes that “Where the Crawdads Sing” would try to manipulate me with its beautiful North Carolina marshlands, music and voiceover
As a fan of Agatha Christie and of comedy that points out the absurdities of all human beings, I found “See How They Run” to
“Sweet and Lowdown” (1999) illustrates the magical nature of filmmaking by lacking magic. We knew by this point that writer-director Woody Allen could make great
“Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak the Night Stalker: Cry of Thunder” (three issues, 2008, collected in 2010) includes the Tombstone Thunderbird myth – remarkably underused in fresh