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Enter to win one of five copies of Dirty Dancing on Blu-ray
Relive the enduring romance of Baby and Johnny when Dirty Dancing 30th Anniversary Edition comes to home video. In the summer of 1963, innocent 17-year-old Baby (Jennifer Grey) vacations with her parents at a Catskills resort. One evening she is ...
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Dirty Dancing hits home with its feministic overtones even more today
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” It’s arguably the most iconic line from 1987’s Dirty Dancing starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. It’s the one-liner that just about everybody and their mother remembers, and it’s the scene that received the ...
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Secrets come to light in Riverdale
The CW's Riverdale is relishing in its mysteries and its darker spin on the brightly colored comic book world of Archie Andrews and friends, and this week's episode didn't give us a lot of forward momentum, plot-wise, at least not ...
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I Am Not Your Negro :: Trailer
Director Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished - a radical narration about race in America, using the writer’s original words.In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House ...
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Enter to win one of five copies of The Monster on Blu-ray
Everyone’s worst fears about the evil that hides in the dark come to life in the nightmare-inducing horror film The Monster. Somewhere deep in the dark woods lurks a bloodthirsty creature that targets an unsuspecting mother and daughter on a ...
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Enter to win one of five copies of USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage on Blu-ray
Based on a true story of survival and bravery, USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage stars Nicolas Cage as the captain of the USS Indianapolis, a boat tasked with a top-secret mission at the end of World War II. Tom Sizemore, ...
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Riverdale is shrouded in fog and mystery
The CW has finally rolled out the long-awaited TV adaptation of Archie Comics' Riverdale, and if you were expecting the light froth of the classic comics, you were in for a big surprise. When I was a kid, I never ...
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Paterson pulses with indie spirit
This movie took me a while to get a handle on, but I think I’ve finally figured it out. It’s a celebration of mundanity and repetition, about the the relief of the predictable and the joy of unfulfilled art. That’s ...
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Un Padre No Tan Padre :: Trailer
When Don Servando Villegas gets expelled from his retirement home, his younger son Francisco takes him in. Don Servando is about to find out the truth about his son and his way of living ...
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Enter to win one of five copies of The Whole Truth on Blu-ray + Digital HD
Witness the tense legal thriller The Whole Truth from Lionsgate. Keanu Reeves stars as a defense attorney trying to clear a teen in the brutal stabbing of his father. Rounding out the acclaimed cast are Renée Zellweger, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Gabriel ...
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Show Boat drops anchor at Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Columbia, Maryland
If you live in the Maryland/DC/Virginia area -- or beyond -- and are looking for something to do like dinner and a show, you can combine the two at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, MD. The theatre features a terrific ...
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The Founder reveals the whole truth about Ray Krok and McDonald’s
McDonald's fast food restaurants are ubiquitous around the world. You can find them just about anywhere, but how did a one-store burger stand in California become such a global phenomenon? The new movie The Founder aims to show us, warts ...
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