'11.22.63' is an intriguing story with a lot of talented people behind it, but is uneven in its execution.
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Blu-ray Review: ‘Supergirl – The Complete First Season’
"Supergirl" is pretty good, should not offend any feminists, and does decent with its bonus material.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Confirmation’
HBO's 'Confirmation' is an important, if biased, film. I wish the extras did more to address that.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘The Knick – The Complete Second Season’
'The Knick's' second season is very exciting, dealing with intriguing issues, and ends with a huge twist. Soon to be available on discs, the release has many solid extras.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Vera Set 1-5 Collection’ & ‘Vera Set 6’
The acting in the DVDs "Vera Set 1-5 Collection" and "Vera Set 6" is so superlative you can sit back and watch the same episode over and over again and not be bored.
Read More »TimeGate Brings ‘Doctor Who’ Convention Fun to Atlanta
It was a great weekend las week as lots of 'Doctor Who' fans descended on the Marriott Century Center for TimeGate 2016.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Vinyl: The Complete First Season’
'Vinyl' is worth checking out, but has not yet lived up to its potential.
Read More »DVD Review: ‘Scream: The TV Series’ – The Complete First Season
MTV delivered a killer first season and May 30 can’t get here soon enough!
Read More »‘Castle’ Goes Supernatural-ish
One of our favorite escapes from overtly paranormal programming is the quirky romantic-comedy, murder mystery procedural, Castle. Among the pleasures of Castle — besides Nathan Fillion’s goofy charm and Stana Katic’s beauty, brains and balls — is that Castle flirts often with the spooky. Over its eight seasons, Castle has dealt with cases that seem to wander into the territory of ghosts, magic, zombies, genies, even Bigfoot. As this week’s episode, “Hell to Pay,” opens the killer in question appears to be demonic, perhaps even the Anti-Christ himself.
Read More »‘The Walking Dead’ Introduces Schrödinger’s Cat
Then it occurred to me that the real victim of this terror tactic is Schrödinger’s cat. The victim — whoever it is — is in a state of suspended animation, both alive and dead, for seven freaking months until Season 7 begins, just like in the famous thought experiment. To recap the experiment, loathed by cat lovers everywhere: we put a living cat into a steel chamber along with a vial of hydrocyanic acid. There is a tiny amount of hydrocyanic acid, a radioactive substance, in the chamber. If even a single atom of the substance decays during the test period, it will trip a hammer, which will break the vial and kill the cat.
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