The original Purge film is perhaps the worst execution of an interesting premise that I have seen. Here we have a fictional universe in which for one day a year, all crime is made legal for 12 hours, a fascinating concept that the audience immediately wants to explore. Yet in the 2013 original, we are confined to one…
Over the past few years, Pixar’s newfound love affair with sequels has created a lot of anxiety among hardcore fans. The animation giants who once proclaimed they would never make a part two unless the story demanded it are now be cranking out Cars 2, Monsters Inc. 2, Finding Nemo 2, and the list goes on and on. Has their…
Something good happened on Game of Thrones and I don’t know what to make of it. This week’s episode, “Book of the Stranger,” opens with the reunion of Jon Snow and Sansa Stark, which would be a bit more emotional had this not literally been their first interaction in the series. The eventual reunion of Arya and Jon will…
In some ways, “Oathbreaker” feels like the real start of Game of Thrones Season 6. We finally got the inevitable Jon Snow resurrection over with last week, and so now the series can move forward into new territory. With some other storylines, the show is still treading water, and “Oathbreaker” all in all is not nearly as significant an hour as last…
We are so damn lucky to be living in the age of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It can’t last forever, but for now, these films are such a gift, and I had a giant smile on my face throughout all 147 minutes of Captain America: Civil War. It perfectly balances the wit of The Avengers movies with the…
Holy. Crap. This week’s episode of Game of Thrones blew me away. I was expecting good things from “Home,” but not an hour of television that delivered on virtually every level and that ranks up there with the series’ finest outings. If this is what the show looks like without the books, then count me in. Bran “Home” gave…
After 10 months of anticipation – or five years if you’re a book reader – Jon Snow is…still dead. It’s hard not to feel a little disappointed that Jon’s fate was not resolved in this premiere, and, in fact, “The Red Woman” is already being utterly trashed by some Game of Thrones fans. I think the issue…
