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Star Trek: Discovery :: Time after time
I have heard some complaints that Star Trek: Discovery needs to be more like the classic Trek series. No, not that this version is just too dark and not in the spirit of Gene Roddenberry's vision for the future, but ...
Tyler Perry’s new Madea movie is the wrong kind of Boo!
Throughout Tyler Perry’s career of being a filmmaker, actor, writer, and mogul, he has given us melodramas, over the top characters, and some well-made films. Tyler Perry is returning to common ground with Madea appearing in a satire of a ...
Grey’s Anatomy :: Let’s Do The Time Warp. Again. And Again. And Again.
Mega Spoiler Alert — no one dies, but someone does leave, and it’s actually worse than the parking lot of no return — that secret place where characters like Erica Hahn and Callie Torres get banished to when they walk ...
Thank You For Your Service is a bleak look at PTSD without real grace
PTSD is a serious problem, and the way we treat veterans is an even bigger one. The concept of a movie following damaged vets is nothing new, but they mainly started post-Vietnam, the first war where popular media was willing ...
The Carringtons struggle to keep their Dynasty together
Whether it was the network or the producers listening to fans of the original Dynasty, or if it was something that was planned all along, it was nice to see the show open in the style of the original, featuring ...
The Red Circle vows to fight the Black Hood in Riverdale
Wow, Riverdale has really gone dark this season, even more than last. This episode in particular just had a feeling of dread running throughout. But at least we can report that we were wrong about the deaths of Moose and ...
Geostorm is the worst kind of disaster
Dean Devlin is a man who loves disasters and his work with Roland Emmerich has created some of the most clichéd disaster movies of all time such as the 1998 Godzilla and both Independence Day movies. Dean Devlin has also ...
American Horror Story: Cult :: The Handmaid’s Tale
In the two previous episodes of American Horror Story: Cult, we saw the beginnings of Kai's new male-dominated regime as his Blue Shirts volunteers lined up to do whatever Kai asked of them. And that left Beverly Hope feeling ...
The Menendez Brothers are railroaded on Law & Order True Crime
The trial of the Menendez brothers is underway as Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders begins to wind down its first season. I have to say that while the show started out as a cheap take on the ...
Raw emotions spark a flame in true story Only the Brave
Only the Brave tells the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who risked everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire. Josh Brolin stars as Fire Chief Eric Marsh who loves his job ...
On Discovery, Failure is not an option
We have to address the elephant in the room this week and that is, for those of you who subscribe to CBS All Access, the major streaming issue they had with the launch of this week's episode of Star Trek: ...
Playing Around honors the Roaring Twenties with this vintage Hollywood film
Playing Around was released way back in the Golden Era of 1930. Back then movies offered either silent scenes or big band musical numbers. Hollywood was limited in what they could do in their films due to the minimal technology ...
