On Sunday, January 4th, PBS and Masterpiece debuted the newest season of the popular British show, Downton Abbey . For PBS that meant 10.1 million viewers joined their network as Season Five opened. F...

Call me a fascist. Call me un-American. Call me what you will but The Interview is not a good comedy. I’m all for free speech but there are much better films to spend your money and your time on invol...

Director Tim Burton returns to the landscape of the unconventional biopic and combines the strength of Ed Wood with the emotion of Big Fish and Edward Scissorhands and introduces us to the storytellin...

I must say, director Bennett Miller, for the few films he has directed (three feature length, one short, one documentary), is on a quite a roll, considering that his other two full length films, ( Cap...

The little television series that could, Showcase’s Continuum , returns to Blu-ray via Universal Studios Home Entertainment and a 3-disc Season Three set. The series is broadcast here in the United St...

Things go from bad to worse for World War II airman Louis Zamperini in this reverential war drama from Angelina Jolie. It is her second feature as director and adventure-seeking audiences – if they ca...

Front Line Assembly sampled it. Magician Criss Angel recreated one of its more dangerous illusions. Only now, almost 20 years later, can the definitive version of Lord of Illusion - a film that is mor...

The Kansas City Film Critics Circle has named Birdman as the Best Film of 2014 at the 48th annual Loutzenhiser Awards. The 25 members of the second oldest film critics group in the United States voted...

Adios, Matt Smith. Hullo, Peter Capaldi! Doctor Who: The Complete Eighth Series (but, really, 34th) starts and ends with a celebrated bang involving a dinosaur in London and the return of The Master (...

Peter Jackson doesn’t exactly save the best in his misguided The Hobbit trilogy for the very last. Much of the final film – in fact, too much of it – is all Jackson's epilogue with no real Tolkien sto...

When Ivan Locke – played by Tom Hardy – leaves work for the evening, he has a job he’s insanely good at, a welcoming home, and a happy family that is eagerly awaiting his arrival. By the time he gets...

Based on the popular television serial, Hammer Studios produced a trilogy of science fiction gems featuring the talents of Professor Bernard Quatermass in the 1950s and 60s. Their first film, The Quat...

You know there’s going to be an issue with a movie, set on California’s west coast during the drugged-out ex-hippie year of 1970, when Benicio del Toro is playing the one and only straight man. Playin...

Classic films are often ahead of their times. L’Avventura is living proof of that statement because the mysteries in Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterwork are still being discussed and unveiled. The lan...

Wanna get devastated? And I mean heartbroken to the nth degree, completely unable to crawl to the fridge for another beer. If so, then Tommy Lee Jones has the movie for you this holiday season. The Ho...