Changing the showrunners and writers of a show can definitely bring change. The fourth episode of the second season of “Shadowhunters,” the showrunners and writers had been replaced, and it’s safe...
“Death Race 2050” is a single hopeful flower blossoming on the nuclear wasteland that is American satire.
In the year 2050 the United Corporations of America, headed by a flamboyant Chairman (Malcolm...
As far-fetched the idea of singing to express our feelings is for the general public, the musical “La La Land” feels real.
The widely acclaimed movie featuring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone has been...
When I started The XX’s new album “I See You,” I was skeptical.
However, not even halfway through the album, I changed my mind. It’s not because I warmed up to the tracks I had already heard,...
Michael Keaton was born to play the bad guy, and I can’t think of a role more suited for him than that of the man whose shady business deals expanded both fast-service restaurants and the American waistline:...
“Fences” isn’t a comfortable watch.
The Denzel Washington flick, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name, poses important questions about race, family and loyalty, and it isn’t...
With a new year comes another chance for producers to get it right. “Shadowhunters” just kicked off its second season and has already premiered its first three episodes. Firstly, “Shadowhunters”...
Netflix has produced a television version of Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” seemingly custom-made to impress my inner 14 year old.
Having grown up reading Snicket’s marvelously...
I sat in an empty theater Sunday watching Billy Bob Thornton attempt to kill himself multiple times, and I was laughing my ass off.
Picking up a decade after the first film. “Bad Santa 2” shows the...
The new season of The Walking Dead is about to reach its mid-season finale, and things are beginning to heat up after a few episodes of calmness.
In the past three episodes, the focus has been on Maggie...
I wanted to love this movie.
A film within the Harry Potter universe but in a different era and country set up “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” to explore the magic millions love without...
Mr. Burns: a post-electric play is, in a word, problematic.
Set mere weeks after a virus wipes away most of humanity, “Mr. Burns” opens with several survivors sitting around a campfire reminiscing...
