Paul Verhoeven turns Robert Heinlein’s science fiction classic novel of interstellar war into a perverse concoction of patriotic fervor, fascist ideology, media satire, and military might
Tag: Neil Patrick Harris
Blu-ray Animated Originals: ‘Batman vs. Two-Face’ and ‘Justice League: The New Frontier’ Commemorative Edition
Batman vs. Two-Face (Warner, Blu-ray, DVD) The 2016 DC Animated Movie Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders, featuring Adam West and Burt Ward, stars of the campy original 1960s TV series Batman, as the voices of Batman and Robin and Julie Newmar reprising her purr as Catwoman, proved popular enough to inspire a sequel. Batman […]
What to stream: an ‘Unfortunate’ Netflix original and ‘Sneaky Pete’ on Amazon
Neil Patrick Harris is Count Olaf, master of disguise and scheming uncle of the orphaned Baudelaire children, in the darkly comic Netflix original series A Series of Unfortunate Events, based on the books by Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler). If you don’t know them, or haven’t seen the disappointing 2004 movie version with Jim Carrey, […]
Watch This! ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ comes to Netflix in January
Neil Patrick Harris is the sinister Count Olaf, the legal guardian of the innocent orphans in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, the Netflix adaptation of the series of macabre children’s storybooks. Yes, dear readers, the terrible adventures of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire and their search for the secret society responsible for the death […]