‘The Walking Dead’ 5.15 Recap: “If You Don’t Fight, You Die”
It’s the penultimate episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 5, and all the pieces are being put in place for next week’s finale (which will be a 90-minute presentation). In Episode 15, Rick and Pete...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 5.16 Recap: “Everything Gets a Return”
After a season’s worth of ups and downs, good episodes and bad, ‘The Walking Dead’ wraps up its fifth season with a killer finale that this viewer thought was one of the series’ finest entries to date....
View ArticleCaptain’s Blog: Calgary Expo 2015
The 10th annual Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo wrapped up its four-day extravaganza on Sunday, April 19th with a record-setting 101,999 attendees – plus me, of course. Just like I did a few...
View ArticleBlu-ray Highlights: Week of August 23rd, 2015 – So Long, Farewell, Auf...
As August winds down, we prepare to say goodbye to the summer and, hopefully, to the Blu-ray dry spell we’ve experienced lately. This week actually has a bunch of titles of some moderate interest, but...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Pilot Recap: “Nature Always Wins”
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ arrives with a whole lot of goodwill behind it. Thanks to the overwhelming popularity of the series to which it is a prequel, I fully expect this premiere to set some ratings...
View ArticleContest: Win ‘The Walking Dead: Season 5′ on Blu-ray!
Our last TV box set contest a couple weeks ago drew only a modest response. I think that perhaps we’ll do better with a more exciting prize. ‘The Walking Dead’ is one of the most popular shows on...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 1.02 Recap: “When Civilization Ends, It Ends Fast”
The second episode of ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ is titled ‘So Close, Yet So Far’, but it might as well have been called ‘Now That’s More Like It’. After a rather unimpressive pilot episode, this second...
View Article‘The Walking Dead: Season 5′ Contest Results
Did anyone have trouble entering last week’s ‘Walking Dead’ contest? I was informed late in the week that we had a software plugin problem that may have prevented some people from logging in with...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 1.03 Recap: “Good People Are the First to Die”
I’m still not quite sure where I stand on ‘Fear the Walking Dead’. While Episode 3 (titled ‘The Dog’… not exactly an endorsement, is it?) is really no worse, or better, than the second entry, the...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 1.04 Recap “You Guys Are the Lucky Ones”
Is it too early to declare ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ a bad television series? It’s certainly not too early to call it a disappointing one, and that disappointment continues in Episode 4, an entry so...
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 1.05 Recap: “What Is Cobalt?”
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ is starting to feel very much like the creators came up with a concept for an 90-minute TV movie and then stretched it out across six episodes. Every time the show hints at...
View ArticlePoll: Which Fall 2015 Returning TV Shows Will You Watch?
As far as new TV shows go, this fall has been pretty much a bust so far. This may be the worst pilot season in recent memory. Thankfully, we still have lots of returning favorites to watch instead....
View Article‘Fear the Walking Dead’ 1.06 Recap: “Another Time, Another World”
I was ready to write off ‘Fear the Walking Dead’. I was ready to spend this recap of the Season 1 finale talking about how the show proved to be a complete failure on all dramatic levels. Then what...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.01 Recap: “Sometimes You’re Safer When There’s No Way Out”
Everyone’s favorite zombie show returned for its sixth season Sunday night, and unlike that other zombie show, this one was definitely worth the wait. It’s hard to think of many other TV series that...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.02 Recap: “Don’t Tell Me Goodbye”
As suspected at the conclusion of the season premiere, this week’s entry of ‘The Walking Dead’ is all about what happened back at Alexandria while Rick and the gang were herding Walkers. But then, just...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.03 Recap: “No One Is Leaving Anyone Behind”
If you thought things were going to slow down a bit as ‘The Walking Dead’ settled into its third episode of the season, you couldn’t have been more wrong. This week’s episode was either one of the...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.04 Recap: “I Have Come to Believe That All Life Is...
After last week’s shocking episode, you didn’t really think we’d find out what happens to Rick or Glenn this week, did you? Of course not, and things don’t look promising for next week either. Instead,...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.05 Recap: “We’re All Going to Be Dead Real Soon”
We’ve patiently waited a few weeks now for ‘The Walking Dead’ to not only confirm the fate of beloved character Glenn, but also to show us how Rick escaped from the swarm of Walkers surrounding his RV....
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.06 Recap: “Loose Ends Make My Ass Itch”
‘The Walking Dead’ continues to stretch out the events of a day or two into as many episodes as possible this season. This week’s entry takes a look at what’s happening with Daryl, Abraham and Sasha...
View Article‘The Walking Dead’ 6.07 Recap: “I Don’t Know What’s Right Anymore”
If it weren’t for one special surprise (not so surprising to many of you), this week’s episode of ‘The Walking Dead’ might come across as a lot of set-up. Basically, the pieces are put in place for the...
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