• March 4, 2016
• At Home, Drama

For some reason I found it sort of impossible to believe that Sylvester Stallone is actually IN Creed. I figured it was just a cameo that he so totally...

• February 20, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Television, War

The premise of the show is truly interesting, and should be ripe for an excellent drama, if in the right hands. It’s 1862 Alexandria, Virginia, which is smack on...

• February 20, 2016
• At Home, Crime, Drama

Simply put, Black Mass is the story of an Irish mobster and generally really bad guy (Bulger) hopping in bed with the FBI in an effort to bring down...

• February 20, 2016
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

It’s hard to comprehend the horror of being trapped in a mine for 69 days, but the film adaptation of the 2010 Chilean miner’s ordeal does a surprisingly good...

• February 17, 2016
• At Home, Drama

Was Apple’s founder and figurehead Steve Jobs a master strategist? A tech visionary? A bullying boss? A douchebag ex? A deadbeat dad? Steve Jobs, the film, argues all of...

• January 25, 2016
• Adventure, At Home, Drama, Thriller

Based on the true story of an ill-fated 1996 climbing expedition on the titular mountain – during which a violent storm blew in and took the lives of eight...

• November 9, 2015
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Harrison Ford is a tall drink of water… no, make that a tall drink of lemonade, in this film that features easily one of Ford’s best performances. He smolders,...

• October 31, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Television

Who doesn’t like to see an occupying empire crumble? I’m not sure why the era of the British occupation of India is so specifically fascinating, but it has all...

• October 23, 2015
• At Home, Drama

Sarah Silverman makes her dramatic-lead debut – and does a decent but not outstanding job – in this paint-by-numbers story of a wife and mother trying to hide her...

• October 17, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Music, Television

At its most basic level, the deliciously entertaining family soap Empire is King Lear with a modern hip-hop/R&B soundtrack. This King is Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard) a modern hip-hop...

• October 16, 2015
• At Home, Drama, Thriller, War

That is not to say that Spielberg doesn’t know how to make an entertaining historical film. Bridge of Spies, after an exceptionally sluggish first half hour or so, is...

• October 11, 2015
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

The naked boys are back in this sequel to the erratically uneven, mildly entertaining male stripper… er… “male entertainer” would-be fleshfest that was the hit 2012 film Magic Mike....