I wonder if it bothers Stephen King that his 54 novels and 200 short stories have produced exactly one great movie. (Two if you count The Shining, and you probably shouldn’t, considering the very public feud between author and director.) We have the greatest pulp author of a generation, perhaps of all time, and he…
Kubo and the Two Strings fills a void I didn’t realize had grown in the movie landscape until I was watching it— it’s an earnest adventure movie for all ages without a trace of camp. There’s very little winking at the audience, there are no topical references, and the celebrity voice actors even try not…
Lifetime’s critically acclaimed series, UNREAL is back with a new season starting tonight. Series stars Constance Zimmer and Shiri Appleby talk about what fans can expect and what the reaction has been from actual reality TV shows. Plus summer blockbusters are hitting every weekend and Fandango’s Alicia Malone gives us a guide of just what…
Interstellar is a movie that in the hands of most directors would be a failure. It’s a movie about space and time that assumes an awful lot of knowledge on both subjects from the audience. It’s a movie with a moral compass that swings so wildly that at the end I can only point to…
Years ago, there was a CBS miniseries, Chiefs, based on the Stuart Woods novel and featured a murder mystery that spanned the years, embroiling three different police chiefs. In 1983, it ran for three nights and I was captivated. When HBO debuted True Detective with Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson in January, I was immediately…
