If you haven’t been sold on X-Men: Days of Future Past by now; after all the viral marketing, all the commercials, all the teasers, and all the trailers, then you are probably not going to be sold on the film. […]

Do you want nightmares? Because The Art of Ian Miller is how you get nightmares. The decades-spanning career of award-winning fantasy artist Ian Miller is not only traversed in the 159 pages of this hefty tome of […]

Last night, during the 2014 MTV Movie Awards, Conan O’Brien did a great job hosting, lots of predictably questionable winners were announced, and Orlando Bloom briefly attempted to speak into his “Best Fight” […]

What do you get when you cross Robin Williams’ Mrs. Doubtfire with absurdist and surrealist animation and decidedly British punk sensibilities that could have only been born in the 1980s? You get David Leach’s […]

Captain America: The First Avenger is a movie that has gradually grown on me a little more with each passing rewatch. I saw it in 2011 and felt like it was a decent superhero movie; upon a second viewing, I gained […]

“Don’t judge a book by its cover” is an extremely useful idiom that comes in handy when dealing with approximately 99% of all books to have ever been printed. Every so often, however, there’s a book that not only […]

Mike Fallon, the fashion-conscious hitman with a quick wit and even quicker roundhouse is better known as Accident Man, the assassin who knows how to make his kills look like unfortunate accidents. The […]

The year was 1980, when one man took it upon himself to teach the entire world all the ins-and-outs of science; that man’s name was Carl Sagan, noted astronomer, astrophysicist, and all-around science dude (not to […]

Ask anyone what the best game of 2013 was, and you’ll get 1-of-3 answers: Grand Theft Auto V, BioShock: Infinite, or The Last of Us. Now, thanks to the production company Screen Gems and Sam Raimi (who will […]

As the fourth installment of the massive Transformers film series, Transformers: Age of Extinction has a lot of work to bring something new to a familiar-perhaps over-saturated-brand. It’s fairly safe to say, in […]

Could Jesse Eisenberg be playing Robin? Could Jeremy Irons be playing Ra’s Al Ghul? No on both counts. Warner Bros. Pictures has confirmed that Jesse Eisenberg has been cast in the upcoming Batman/Superman film as […]

The most important factor in a con is finding someone to deceive. The easiest way to do that is to make your deception 100% believable; build it “from the feet up”, as it were. Similarly, the most important part […]

It’s not often that filmmakers will find themselves in the unique position of those who had the unenviable responsibility of bringing 12 Years a Slave to the screen. The seemingly Sisyphean task director Steve […]

The third season of BBC’s Sherlock series went as quickly as it had come and with just as much, if not more, of a bang. Put quite simply and succinctly, the show is perfect in each and every single way […]

The latest installment in a long-running book series, The Wrong Quarry brings Max Allan Collins’ semi-retired assassin to small town Missouri and the hitman’s hitman to an impasse that threatens to change […]

Previously, on Sherlock: “The Empty Hearse”

With “The Sign of Three”, BBC’s adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s enigmatic detective, who has been adapted so many times, somehow manages to be altogether […]

Like a dear friend resurrecting from the grave, Sherlock returned to BBC One on January 1st to the tune of 9.2 million UK viewers collectively weeping in delight. “The Empty Hearse” reintroduced the spectacular […]

BBC America’s bittersweet event, the Doctor Who Christmas special. started before it even began, with a special “Farewell to Matt Smith”, which took a fond look back on Matt Smith’s tenure as the Eleventh […]

In director John Lee Hancock’s Saving Mr. Banks, we’re told a story about the famed Walt Disney’s repeated attempts to convince author P.L. Travers to let him put her beloved character Mary Poppins to film. Of […]