Based on Caleb Carr’s Best Selling multi-genre work The Alienist, TNT’s 10 episode titular series, premiered in late January. The weekly series presents an intriguing look into the timelessness of New York City’s economic classes, social conflicts, familial and personal traumas. The sensational production design imprints 1896 Manhattan in indelible …
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TV Review: ‘The Alienist’: Mystery, Gore, and Sex in Old New York
Picture Sherlock Holmes in New York aided by the techies from 'Criminal Minds' and you’ll get a feel for the experience of watching 'The Alienist.' This new series from TNT debuts on January 22.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘The Fate of the Furious’ Keeps the Franchise Firing on All Cylinders
Top notch AV makes picking up the eighth entry a wise investment for fans.
Read More »‘Dracula Untold’ Presents Most Interesting Version of The Count Since ‘Van Helsing’
The most interesting Draculas of the 2000s are Jonathan Rhys Meyers' principled, love-sick, brilliant inventor/entrepreneur in the short-lived NBC TV series; Richard Roxburgh's rattled, sardonic, paternal, philosophical, yet ultimately villainous portrayal in the vastly underrated Van Helsing; and Luke Evans' family man and conscientious prince who must sacrifice his own humanity to protect his people from the rapacious Ottomans in the 15th century of Dracula Untold.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘High-Rise’ Takes You to the Roof and Throws You Off with Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons
It's not difficult to be immersed in the world of "High-Rise".
Read More »Blu-ray Review: James Wan’s ‘Furious 7’ Proves Family Is Thicker Than Plot
No one will be left disappointed with 'Furious 7' being the best film of the franchise so far.
Read More »Blu-ray Review: ‘Dracula Untold’ Starring Luke Evans
Ultimately feels like a lackluster episode of 'Game of Thrones' with a vampiric subplot thrown in.
Read More »Movie Review: Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ with Martin Freeman, Ian McKellan, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, and Richard Armitage
How does 'Battle' fit in and does it find time to end one trilogy while simultaneously setting up another? In one word: incredibly.
Read More »Movie Review: ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’
One of the year’s biggest and best films, finally delivering everything we expect from another addition to the J.R.R. Tolkien film legacy.
Read More »Movie Review: The Raven (2012)
John Cusack portrays legendary poet Edgar Allan Poe in The Raven, atmospheric and mesmerising murder mystery
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