Blu-ray Highlights: Week of June 1st, 2014 – Stay Gold, Ponyboy
In this week’s new Blu-ray releases, 1950s greasers fight for your dollar against a bevy of undead challengers, including zombies, vampires, a Frankensteinian cyborg and even a resurrected holy man....
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of August 24th, 2014 – Come On, Babe, Why Don’t We...
Whether you’re a fan of zombies, musicals, giant monsters or Adam Sandler riding an ostrich, this week may have a Blu-ray or two for you. Just imagine if we could put all these things together into one...
View ArticleWeekend Roundtable: Most Annoying TV Tropes
In many respects, modern primetime television dramas have eclipsed feature films as the medium of choice for quality writing and storytelling. Nevertheless, with between 10 to 25 episodes of screen...
View Article‘Z Nation’ Pilot Recap: “I’ve Had Enough of This Stinkin’ World”
Zombies, zombies, everywhere zombies. Do we really need another zombie series on TV right now? In case ‘The Walking Dead’ isn’t enough for you, or you’ve burned-out on its characters and formula, Syfy...
View ArticlePoll: Fall 2014 Returning TV Shows
In last week’s poll, we asked you which of this fall’s new TV shows you planned to check out. Let’s follow that up with a look at all the returning shows coming back for another round this season....
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.01 Recap: “You’re the Butcher or You’re the Cattle”
When we last left our ‘Walking Dead’ heroes, they were all (well, most of them) trapped inside a train car at the mysterious compound known as Terminus awaiting their fate. Atypically for the show, the...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.02 Recap: “The Word of God Is the Only Protection I Need”
With our heroes (minus Beth) all reunited after last week’s escape from Terminus, this week’s episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ allows time for a little more character development as the stage is slowly...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.03 Recap: “I Already Made You a Promise”
Television shows shouldn’t be this good in their fifth seasons. We, of course, all hope for it, but by this time in a series’ run, cracks are usually showing in the armor. Not so with ‘The Walking...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.04 Recap: “You’re Not the Greater Good”
Like many fans of ‘The Walking Dead’, I’d been waiting for this week’s episode, which finally explains what happened to Beth. Emily Kinney is one of my favorite members of the cast (for obvious and...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.05 Recap: “I’m Stressed and Depressed”
After last week’s disappointing entry, it would be pretty hard for ‘The Walking Dead’ not to rebound with the latest episode. Although I’m pretty sure that this week’s story won’t be remembered as a...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.06 Recap: “How Did We Get Here?”
‘The Walking Dead’ started off Season 5 with a trio of very good episodes that looked like this series was really hitting a creative highpoint. However, fans were then treated to ‘Slabtown‘, one of the...
View Article‘Walking Dead’ Poll: Should Daryl and Carol Hook Up?
Shannon’s recap of this week’s episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ spawned a (perhaps inevitable) discussion about why the characters of Daryl and Carol haven’t given in to temptation and made their...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.07 Recap: “It’s Never Gonna Get Any Better Than This”
With the entire cast finally appearing in an episode again, and with only one week until the mid-season finale, ‘The Walking Dead’ should certainly pick up the pace in this week’s episode, right? I...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.08 Recap: “You Just Had to Stop”
After several episodes of build-up, I’m sure I wasn’t the only ‘Walking Dead’ fan who thought the mid-season finale would be primarily devoted to a stand-off between our heroes and those holding Beth...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.09 Recap: “It’s Not Over”
Now that ‘The Walking Dead’ mid-season break is over and the hospital storyline that dominated much of the beginning of Season 5 has wrapped up, we return to the zombie apocalypse with an episode...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.10 Recap: “How Much Longer We Got?”
After a pair of episodes (albeit separated by a winter hiatus) where ‘The Walking Dead’ said goodbye to two cast members, it was probably destined that we’d get a filler episode this week, as the...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.11 Recap: “You Can Trust Me”
Every time I feel that ‘The Walking Dead’ is losing some of its steam, the show manages to deliver a really good episode that reminds me of how this series can be when it gives the actors something...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.12 Recap: “That’s What You Were, That’s What You Are”
My initial guess is that a great number of ‘Walking Dead’ fans may have found this week’s episode to be somewhat of a snooze because not a whole lot of action takes place. However, unlike some previous...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.13 Recap: “You’ll Get Cookies… Lots of Cookies”
Episode 13 of ‘The Walking Dead’ this season may not be jam-packed with action, but it certainly has a lot of interesting things going on. Our main characters are beginning to come to terms with their...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.14 Recap: “They Don’t Deserve Paradise”
This week’s episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ was directed by Jennifer Lynch – daughter of David Lynch, director of ‘Boxing Helena’, and author of ‘The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer‘. So, if any fans...
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