A Boy and His Dog (1976), the directorial debut of longtime character actor and Sam Peckinpah regular L.Q. Jones, is not the first post-apocalyptic vision of America but it does offer a different approach to the empty streets and ghostly cities that previously stood in for life after the end. Jones, adapting the novella by […]
Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … The weekly column is featured in The Seattle Times, The Spokesman-Review, and other newspapers. Disney+, the most ambitious streaming service to launch in years, arrives this week with a mix of movies from the […]
Patrick McGoohan’s cerebral spy show and portrait of personal freedom as an existential prison has been proclaimed the greatest TV show of all time. It certainly pushed the boundaries of episodic TV storytelling when it debuted in 1968.
Knightriders (1981) is easily the gentlest film ever made by George Romero, a romantic story of gypsy bikers who create a kind of traveling Renaissance faire built around the chivalric ideal of an Arthurian court. There’s a streak of the Camelot story played out all in modern times, but on a more intimate, human scale […]
