Hulu Plus continues to make moves into the realm of TV exclusives. It now has subscription streaming rights to “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation“, which it shares with CBS All Access, the network’s own service (Amazon, iTunes, and Vudu offer VOD episodes at $2 apiece). That’s over 300 episodes of the flagship “CSI” series, from William […]
“Daredevil” (or, as it’s been branded across the web, “Marvel’s Daredevil”) launches today. This superhero is the costumed alter ego of Matt Murdoch, a blind lawyer from the slums of Hell’s Kitchen with Batman skills and elevated senses, and the show is closer to the urban grittiness of the Dark Knight movies than the splashy […]
Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand “Interstellar,” Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to his hugely successful “Dark Knight” trilogy and cerebral caper film “Inception,” is as visually and conceptually ambitious a science fiction film as you’ll see on this kind of scale. The family drama at the center, with Matthew McConaughey as the single dad who leads a deep space […]
Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies“ brings Peter Jackson’s supersized take on J.R.R. Tolkein’s fantasy to its conclusion with a battle that nearly dwarfs the Middle Earth-shattering war “Lord of the Rings” trilogy (pun intended). It’s Elf and Man against Dwarf, but for the Orcs it’s personal. This is the […]
A new month and a new batch of streaming titles (including some returning films), including two with Johnny Depp in his more ambitious days. In the 1997 undercover drama “Donnie Brasco” (1997) he’s an undercover FBI agent who infiltrates the mob and a heartbreaking performance by Al Pacino as a low-level mobster and big-shot wannabe, […]
