Split is mediocre fun as horror film, self-indulgent in big reveal

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[link_box id=”36688″ site_id=”1″ layout=”link-box-third” alignment=”alignright”]M. Night Shyamalan hasn’t seemed like a director really worth following for the past 10 years. That’s presuming the general belief that Lady in the Water (2006) was his “jump the shark” moment as a filmmaker of consequence. If you think that The Village (2004) was Shyamalan’s last decent film, then it’s been even […]

Homeland season 6, episode 2 recap: The Man in the Basement

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Homeland continued its sixth season and first primarily in New York City on Sunday with a stronger episode than the premiere, but still weak overall. The second episode of season six entitled “The Man in the Basement” revealed a lot about where season six will take us after a season premiere that didn’t really give viewers many […]

SNL recap: Aziz Ansari rips Trump, Putin stays shirtless, loving La La Land

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In its first show since the Trump inauguration, Saturday Night Live with host Aziz Ansari take on the new administration. On Friday, WWE Hall of Famer Donald Trump held a sparsely attended presidential inauguration that is sure to usher in one to four years of angry tweets about Saturday Night Live. During the upcoming time […]

In new Logan trailer, Wolverine cedes spotlight to young X-23

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One of the more intriguing aspects of long promotional campaigns for blockbuster movies is the differences in trailers, as the studio attempts to appeal to different audiences or show that the film in question is more than an action flick or a dark drama. Fox released the second trailer for Logan on Tuesday morning, which […]

Mark Wahlberg as Tommy Saunders in ‘Patriots Day.’

Patriots Day is suspenseful, agonizing, inspirational, and ultimately exceptional

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Patriots Day could have been exploitative, but is deeply respectful and admiring in its story of a community pulling together in the face of horror. Director Peter Berg and producer Mark Wahlberg stepped into some murky territory with Patriots Day. Though few will likely argue that it’s a story that shouldn’t be told and deserves […]

‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ moving to Netflix as part of a Jerry Seinfeld mega-deal; is Crackle in trouble?

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Streaming network Crackle is known for Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Well, was known, anyway; Senfield is taking the show to Netflix, as part of a massive new production and content deal. The Hollywood Reporter and Variety both reported Tuesday (at exactly the same time) that Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee will air new episodes on Netflix […]

Live By Night, Ben Affleck show great ambition, can’t fulfill epic story’s promise

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[link_box id=”36688″ site_id=”1″ layout=”link-box-third” alignment=”alignright”]After three stellar films, Ben Affleck has his first miss as a director with the unfulfilling Live By Night. Ben Affleck was on quite a career-changing streak as a director, putting himself in A-list territory for helming 2013’s Best Picture winner, Argo. Few directors have had the sort of critical and […]

Sherlock recap: Was ‘The Final Problem’ both a season and series finale?

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Well, that Sherlock finale was certainly something. But was it good? Let’s discuss. Sherlock’s season 4 finale (ominously bearing the title “The Final Problem,” a nod to the Arthur Conan Doyle tale that saw Sherlock Holmes’ original literary demise) wrapped the season up tightly, if not satisfactorily. Here’s what happened, and it’s fairly spoiler-ish from here on […]

Homeland season 6, episode 1 recap: Fair Game

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Homeland started its sixth season on Sunday night, and immediately rectified the biggest cliffhanger from the fifth season finale — and not in a good way. In that finale, Carrie Mathieson stood over a comatose Peter Quinn, with Quinn seemingly destined for a vegetative lifestyle if he did manage to survive. After closing and barring […]

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