“I’ve never been an actual Luddite. I don’t hate technology. I just hate the religion around it.” – Terry Gilliam. Visoinary director (of the abstract dramedy) Terry Gilliam takes viewers back to the...

If you are tired of Johnny Depp or think he’s “played out” then you should stop reading this review right now. In fact, don’t step foot anywhere near Mortdecai because you won’t be amused with anythin...

Chasing perfection is a lengthy process, one of trial and tribulation, and for freshman jazz band drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), this is a fact that could be none too clear. Studying at Shaffer...

Michael Mann’s stylistic exercise continues with yet another bloodless affair. Blackhat , following the disappointment of Public Enemies and Miami Vice , continues the downward trajectory of an above-...

"You can't hypnotize me...I'm British!" Burned by Roger Ebert upon its original release but made popular by British audiences, At the Earth’s Core is a harmless rubber-suited monster party for childre...

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...