Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of four posts from the site’s television writers detailing their top shows of 2016. In order to qualify for the list, a show had to air original episodes in the United States during the 2016 calendar year. 2016 was quite the year for television. 455 scripted […]
Martin Scorsese’s harrowing faith-based tale has been a three-decade sojourn for the award-winning director. After reading the book by Shusaku Endo, he started the long expedition to get this epic drama to cinemas and it is hard to know how to respond. There is a fine line between celebrating the artistic storytelling and the utter repulsion at the […]
Here we are again, almost exactly one year removed from the release of last year’s The Force Awakens. This year, another highly anticipated release in the Star Wars universe is here in Rouge One: A Star Wars Story. From the looks of the trailers it seemed that this film could be a worthy entry. Peel […]
EA and DICE recently celebrated the one year anniversary for Star Wars Battlefront. Players that didn’t get the season pass were able try out the expansion packs free for a limited time. Plus there’s the Complete Edition release with every DLC included last month. However, DICE had one more expansion to launch before the end […]
Since February, The Pokémon Company started the twentieth anniversary celebration of the Pokémon franchise. While I thought it was going to be a few small events during the month, it ended up being a giveaway of all the mythical Pokémon, a Super Bowl commercial, several big releases of the trading card game, the Nintendo 3DS […]
Jackie is directed by Pablo Larrain and stars Natalie Portman as a recently widowed Jackie Kennedy who is dealing with the events surrounding her husband, President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Jackie centers around a reporter (Billy Crudup) coming to Jackie’s new home to get her account of the tragic events. While giving this interview, Jackie manipulates […]
Chew has finally ended after around half a decade in print. Spanning 60 issues, one crossover, and three standalone specials, the cult favorite detective comic from writer John Layman and Rob Guillory was laid to rest, rather fortuitously, the day before Thanksgiving. For those who haven’t heard about the series before, it follows the adventures […]
A wartime film is nothing new. Seeing the drama and trauma of a soldier on the battlefield and then returning home is something that has been done, too. What makes Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk different is the promised visual experience and the depiction of his thoughts of life in the US after the battle. The […]
There are a number of things I love about being a TV critic. Watching a new show that enraptures me and getting a chance to write about it and introduce it to other people is chief among them. Oh how I wish Westworld was turning into that kind of show. Westworld has intrigued and frustrated […]
It all started in my game room back in 2007. Three friends were huddled on a run-down couch in a dark, musky basement around a CRT playing the newest game. Flashing lights lit up the room and anger induced shouting was a common occurrence. I remember my character sprinting to cover as a helicopter came […]
