Sherlock: Season Two
Dismiss any worries you have that the sophomore season of BBC's smash Sherlock
may not live up to the first. It does. One could even argue for
surpassing it, but such debate is needless; excellence is excellence.
05/15/2012 | Comments 0Chronicle
With an abusive, alcoholic dad and a dying mom, high schooler Andrew (Dane DeHaan, TV's In Treatment)
has bought a secondhand video camera to record his life. This decision
proves most convenient when he and two classmates are imbued with
superpowers after running across an alien life force deep within a pit.
05/15/2012 | Comments 0One for the Money
Last time Hollywood tried to build a franchise on a best-selling series
of mystery novels and a gun-toting actress, the year was 1991 and the
result was V.I. Warshawski, and it pretty much killed the career of its star, Kathleen Turner.
05/14/2012 | Comments 0Mimic 3 Film Set
Assuming you’ve yet to acquire the director’s cut of Mimic that Lionsgate unleashed to Blu-ray last fall, I’d suggest opting for its new, franchise complete 3 Film Set. Only Guillermo del Toro’s 1997 original played theaters, while the two sequels went the direct-to-DVD route, on purpose.
05/11/2012 | Comments 0Flareup
Raquel Welch never quite landed on the A list, but not for a lack of trying. It's just that so many of her projects (Bedazzled, One Million Years B.C., Fathom, Myra Breckinridge,
et al.) required little more of her than her assets. At least she
shakes those with the best of them as a go-go girl on the go — and on
the run — in 1969's Flareup, fresh from the MOD ovens of Warner Archive.
05/10/2012 | Comments 0
