‘True Detective’ Season 4, ‘Death and Other Details,’ ‘Fool Me Once’ ask whodunit
First episode impressions (TV reviews): There’s some danger of murder-mystery fatigue as 2024 begins, but a new season of “True Detective” is always welcome.
Dark Spidey duology wraps with ‘Amazing Spider-Man 2’ (2014)
Superhero Saturday (Movie review): The storytelling web gets convoluted as the dark Spidey duology wraps.
‘Amazing Spider-Man’ (2012) experiments with a darker tone
Superhero Saturday (Movie review): The Andrew Garfield series experiments with a darker tone and affirms that the 2002 film had it right all along.
No X-Men in this ‘Gifted,’ but it is a sweet little family drama (Movie review)
Not to be confused with TV’s “X-Men” series “The Gifted,” “Gifted” made a blip in movie theaters in April (it’s available via Redbox and streaming), but it’s worth checking out for those who enjoy sweet little family dramas with good performances, dashes of humor and beautiful Savannah, Ga., settings as a stand-in for Florida.
First episode impressions: ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ (TV review)
After a fairly awful September of new show premieres, October is off to a much better start with “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” (8 p.m. Eastern Mondays on The CW), a delightfully note-perfect mashup of genres from Rachel Bloom, who came up through the ranks of “Robot Chicken” and self-produced YouTube comedy videos.
Oh, how I love/hate ‘(500) Days of Summer’ (Movie review)
“(500) Days of Summer,” the would-be-romantic, too-sad-to-be-a-comedy starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, starts with a narrated warning that this is not a love story. It’s not so we’ll smirk and say, “Isn’t that cute — a love story that says it’s not a love story.” It’s meant as a literal warning, so don’t say it
The ugly truth: Hollywood’s marketing strategy lets us down (Movie commentary)
I have the day off. Here are my movie-going options. I can drive an hour to see “(500) Days of Summer,” which I really want to see. Or, at the local googolplex, I can see “A Perfect Getaway” or “Time Traveler’s Wife” or “G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra” or “The Ugly Truth” — none of which I want to see. I’ll probably end up