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Matt Groening’s New Netflix Series ‘Disenchantment’ Takes Wicked Aim at Storybook Fantasies
Features • Published on August 2018
Netflix’s new animated series “Disenchantment” merrily distorts our ideas about fairy tales with a fun wickedness. This marks the Netflix debut for Matt Groening,…
Even Cavemen Need a Good Dog in Prehistoric Epic ‘Alpha’
Features • Published on August 2018
Here is a caveman movie specifically for dog lovers. “Alpha” attempts to imagine the first time a human looked at a canine and realized they were meant to…
Russian Plots and High Explosives Come Together for ‘Mile 22’
Features • Published on August 2018
Actor turned director Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg are the supreme patriot duo in modern movies. “Mile 22”…
‘Mile 22’: Mark Wahlberg and Director Peter Berg Reveal the Secrets of Their CIA Action Thriller
Features • Published on August 2018
“Mile 22” reunites one of the tightest duos now specializing in pumped up, gritty action. It is the fourth collaboration between director Peter Berg…
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 4 Returns With Approaching Storms and Hard Decisions
Features • Published on August 2018
Season 4 of AMC’s “Fear the Walking Dead” begins its mid-season march right where it should, amid apocalyptic despair and approaching storm clouds (literally). The walkers are being…
Love and Stability Prove Fleeting in Season 3 of HBO’s ‘Insecure’
Features • Published on August 2018
Season 3 of HBO’s sharp and funny “Insecure” is a refreshing drama of lives in motion. It is also one of the best shows on television capturing the…
‘Ballers’ Season 4 Takes Its Business to Sunny California
Features • Published on August 2018
The fourth season of HBO’s “Ballers” is about as self-interested as its characters. This is a show that at the moment caters solely to those loyal enough to…
Netflix’s ‘Insatiable’ Offers an Empty Plate of Shallow Laughs
Features • Published on August 2018
Netflix’s new series “Insatiable” has courted much controversy over its early promos, sparking accusations of fat shaming and inspiring petitions to pull the plug. This show in its…
‘The Meg’ Attempts to Imagine the Glory of Jason Statham Battling a Megalodon Shark
Features • Published on August 2018
“The Meg” pairs together two stars tailor-made for movie glory, Jason Statham and a prehistoric shark. Too bad they don’t get the kind…
‘Better Call Saul’: Quiet Tension and Major Confessions Open Season 4
Features • Published on August 2018
The season four premiere of AMC’s “Better Call Saul” defines slow burner. An effective hour of television as pure tension, it flows out of the last season with…
HBO’s ‘Animals’ Returns for Third Season of Post-Apocalyptic Satire and Raunchy Laughs
Features • Published on August 2018
HBO’s “Animals” is one of the strangest amalgams of animation and indie comedy ever to appear on cable television. Now entering its third season, it is essentially a…
Disney’s ‘Christopher Robin’ Finds Winnie the Pooh Facing Grown Up Realities
Features • Published on August 2018
Growing up is never fun, even in the world of Disney. “Christopher Robin” takes one of the sweetest of all Disney titles and transforms it into a rather…
‘The Sinner’ Season 2 Tackles New Murder Mystery and Strange Cults
Features • Published on August 2018
USA’s “The Sinner” is designed in a smart way. Instead of dragging out one continuous storyline, it is an anthology series that offers a new case with every…
‘Nico, 1988’ Paints a Haunting Portrait of Icon’s Final Days
Features • Published on August 2018
We remember many of the great pop culture icons through their youth, and the photos of their prime. Seldom do we reflect on the final chapters or the later years. “…
Final Season of Hulu’s ‘Casual’ Tries to Find True Love at the End of the Road
Features • Published on July 2018
Hulu’s “Casual” is bowing out with a fourth and final season that again ponders everything that is strange, tricky and lonely about modern love. This was never a…
‘Orange is the New Black’ Season Six Transfers Its Inmates to Brutal New Prison
Features • Published on July 2018
In season six of Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black” the series is beginning to experiment with new avenues, more new characters and storylines trying to refresh the…
‘Teen Titans Go! To the Movies’ Hilariously Riffs on Superheroes
Features • Published on July 2018
Like an animated enfant terrible, “Teen Titans Go! To the Movies” chuckles at everything we know and love about comic books, and comic book movies, with a refreshing…
Tom Cruise Proves He Can Still Do It All in Explosive ‘Mission: Impossible — Fallout’
Features • Published on July 2018
Now this is a summer action movie. “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” knows what it has to do to deliver and does it exceedingly well. The story is a mere…
Hulu’s ‘Castle Rock’ Is an Eerie Stephen King Mystery Worth Unraveling
Features • Published on July 2018
There’s something about small towns that makes them perfect for horror thrillers. Stephen King has known this since his first major novels were published decades ago. Now King is teaming up with Hulu…
‘Pose’ Season One Closes in Wicked Style With a Hail of Glorious Showdowns
Features • Published on July 2018
FX’s “Pose” fittingly ends its first season with an hour of pure exhilaration. Part fairy tale, part grand drama of trans life in 1980s New York, this is…