Peter Capaldi takes over as The Doctor in the eight season debut of Doctor Who, “Deep Breath,” an extended episode that drops us in Victorian London as the Doctor tries to recover his memories while he recovers from his latest regeneration and his companion Clara (Jenna Coleman) struggles to come to terms with this new, […]
It didn’t make the final cut for the Oscar documentary shortlist but Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2001) is a beautiful and breathtaking work of non-fiction and one of the best films of 2011. The film is built around an exploration of the ancient Chauvet Cave, home to the oldest human artwork known to […]
Showtime, HBO’s primary competitor in the premium channel market, doesn’t have the depth of HBO’s library of original programming. It has, however, been challenging HBO’s supremacy in original series with such critical and popular efforts as Homeland, Masters of Sex, Penny Dreadful, and The Affair. Now it has debuted a streaming service with a range […]
The truth is out there and Fox is streaming it. They just announced that they will be presenting every episode of the original The X-Files in order, one per day, until the TV reboot debuts on January 24, 2016. That’s 201 episodes in 201 days, starting with the pilot on Tuesday, July 7, streaming for […]
Mystic Pizza (1988), a summer buddy movie of romance and friendship among three best friends in the resort community of Mystic, Connecticut, launched the careers of Lili Taylor, Julia Roberts, and Annabeth Gish. Roger Ebert gave it his thumbs up when it was released in 1988: “The characters are allowed to be smart, to react […]
The U.S. has a long and complicated history of remaking foreign shows. There are a lot of failures, to be sure, but also a lot of success stories. The Bridge is one of the more natural imports. The original show, a dark murder mystery procedural from Denmark, throws a cross-border complication into a case where […]
Hulu has been trying to find its place in next to Netflix and Amazon Prime in the subscription streaming market for some time now. Initially dedicated to providing next-day access for network TV shows, complete with advertising, it found itself behind the curve when Netflix decided to turn itself into a streaming network in its […]
Variety reports that Hulu has just secured the exclusive SVOD (streaming video on demand) rights to Seinfeld. The deal will give Hulu all 180 episodes of the hit sitcom. The exact purchase price was not disclosed but according to Variety, “deal is said to be valued at around $875,000 an episode.” The series will be […]
Oh hi, Hulu! Are you a fan of Tommy Wiseau’s inimitable The Room, a movie that spawned a cult following on the midnight movie circuit because they couldn’t believe that anyone could produce a film this bad and kept watching to remind themselves that yes, it does? Then you just might want to see the […]
