Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on November 19th, 2018
“The wizarding and non-wizarding worlds have been at peace for over a century. Grindelwald wants to see that peace destroyed.” Back in the early days of the internet before videos went “viral”, there was a Thanksgiving cartoon about a chef who needed to serve too many people with a small turkey. So to compensate, he […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on October 2nd, 2018
Mention the name J.K. Rowling, and the first thing that pops into your head is Harry Potter. She was a struggling writer just getting out of a bad marriage when her first Potter book took the world by storm. Now she’s the wealthiest woman on the planet. The problem has been her life has since […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on April 11th, 2018
“Hey, it’s Hannah… get a snack. Settle in because I’m about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. But if you’re listening to this tape, you’re one of the reasons why.” 13 Reasons Why started out as a novel in 2007. It didn’t catch the world on fire […]
Posted in Tuesday Round Up by J C on November 28th, 2017
We are a little less than a week removed from Thanksgiving, and we are feeling thankful for your continued support of our site. (And I’m still feeling like I’m in a bit of a food coma.) We’re also feeling Lucky this week. Thanks to Universal, we’ll bring you our take on Steven Soderbergh’s latest heist comedy […]
Posted in Holiday Gift Guides, Uncategorized by Gino Sassani on November 26th, 2017
I think I see your problem. You have this list. It’s a list of people you need/want to buy a Christmas gift for. The trouble is that they’re into home theatre, and you don’t know Star Trek from Star Wars. You couldn’t tell a Wolf Man from a Wolverine. And you always thought that Paranormal Activity was something too […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on October 9th, 2017
“Welcome to The Vault, the most amazing library ever. An archive of the incredible. A repository of the impossible. A storehouse of secrets great and small. This is the untold history of America.” Things have not been going so well for Ichabod Crane and his fight against the supernatural. The show has had trouble finding […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 19th, 2017
“I made a big mistake…. I wanted a new life. I wanted to start over, and that’s what I did. But somehow I made things worse. So I reset everything. I put everything back to the way that it was before, except some things weren’t the same any more. Not even a little bit.” That […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on June 21st, 2017
“We should not be fighting for segregation, we should be fighting for equality.” That’s the sort of rousing statement any random politician on the campaign trail might use to rile up a crowd of supporters at a pep rally. And even though those words are spoken here by a man in the midst of heavy […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on June 8th, 2017
“Who could ever learn to love a beast?” Although it’s not quite a tale as old as time, people around the world have been enchanted by the story of “Beauty and the Beast” for centuries. The French fairytale was first published in 1740 and has subsequently spawned everything from a classic 1946 big-screen romance to […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by J C on March 30th, 2017
“I’m writing a book about magical creatures.” The wizarding world J.K. Rowling conjured for her Harry Potter series captured the imaginations of children (and many, many adults) throughout the globe because it was precisely that…a fully realized, living and breathing world with its own lingo and lore. So while spinning off a corner of that […]
Posted in Tuesday Round Up by J C on March 28th, 2017
There’s more than a little magic in the air for this week’s Round Up. Warner Bros. casts an enchanting, ultra-HD spell with the blockbuster Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which we’ll be reviewing in 4K. And speaking of “fantastic beasts,” I hope you don’t mind if I spend a few […]
Posted in The Reel World by J C on March 17th, 2017
“Who could ever learn to love a beast?” Although it’s not quite a tale as old as time, people around the world have been enchanted by the story of “Beauty and the Beast” for centuries. The French fairytale was first published in 1740 and has subsequently spawned everything from a classic 1946 big-screen romance to […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on December 1st, 2016
“In penance for their uprising each district shall offer up a male and female between the ages of 12 and 18 at a public reaping. These tributes shall be delivered to the custody of the Capitol and then transferred to a public arena where they will fight to the death, until a lone victor remains. […]
Posted in The Reel World by J C on November 19th, 2016
“I’m writing a book about magical creatures.” The wizarding world J.K. Rowling conjured for her “Harry Potter” series captured the imaginations of children (and many, many adults) throughout the globe because it was precisely that…a fully realized, living and breathing world with its own lingo and lore. So while spinning off a corner of that […]
Posted in Tuesday Round Up by J C on November 15th, 2016
Christmas decorations have been creeping onto store shelves for weeks now and temperatures here in the Sunshine State have begun to plummet all the way down into the high 50’s. Those are two sure signs that winter is coming. Here’s another: the latest batch of episodes from a certain wildly popular HBO fantasy series arrives […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Brent Lorentson on October 19th, 2016
I’ve always been a fan of Tarzan; I loved the old series and the films basically because I just dug how he was this fearless character who lived in the jungles who fought the bad guys and a few wild animals as well. As I got older that was when I discovered the books of […]
Posted in The Reel World by Archive Authors on October 18th, 2016
David Hare is an extremely prolific and ambitious playwright. He has written over 30 plays, but he has also done television and screenplays as well as directing in all three mediums. One of his first screenplays was an adaptation of his play, Plenty, which starred Meryl Streep, in 1985. He also wrote the screenplay for […]
Posted in The Reel World by Archive Authors on July 6th, 2016
If a film is highly original, that is usually a good thing. If it completely defies logic, that might be good or bad, depending. If it defies common sense and intelligence, that would be a bad thing. Swiss Army Man does all of those things. It is tantalizing with possibilities that are explored, but frustrating in […]
Posted in The Reel World by Brent Lorentson on July 2nd, 2016
I’ve always been a fan of Tarzan; I loved the old series and the films basically because I just dug how he was this fearless character who lived in the jungles that fought the bad guys and a few wild animals as well. As I got older that was when I discovered the books of […]
Posted in The Reel World by Archive Authors on June 6th, 2016
A Bigger Splash is a remake of a 1969 French film called La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) starring Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, and Jane Birkin. It was popular in its time and was challenging and mysterious but will not register in the memory of modern moviegoers. A Bigger Splash retains the same sense of adventurous […]
Posted in No Huddle by Archive Authors on April 28th, 2016
“To all things, there is a purpose. It was the time of judges. The Lord had punished the children of Israel for their sins against him. He had delivered them into the hands of the Philistines.” The timeframe of Samson and Delilah is around 1075 B.C. Samson, like many characters in the Bible, is chosen […]
Posted in The Reel World by Archive Authors on April 10th, 2016
Comic book movies are the preeminent form of movie entertainment in this day and age. I use the term broadly to include all sorts of fantasy books and ancillary offshoots. There is the Marvel Universe and the DC Universe and other universes that include Star Wars, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, and […]
Posted in No Huddle by Archive Authors on March 17th, 2016
In the book of Genesis from the Bible, the story of Abraham comes right after the stories of Adam and Eve and Noah. It is one of the foundation stories of the Bible and talks of Abraham being the father of the Jewish people. The Bible is the source book of Christianity as well. The […]
Posted in Tribute by J C on January 14th, 2016
– “After all your posturing, all your little speeches, you’re nothing but a common thief.” – “I am an exceptional thief…” The above exchange occurs in Die Hard, which (in addition to being the gold standard for modern action movies) marked the film debut of Alan Rickman. The beloved, commanding actor — who died of […]
Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on January 2nd, 2016
“You know this story…” At least you think that you do. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is one of the best known novels of all time. But thanks in part to Hollywood, it is also one of the most misrepresented stories of all time. I’m a fan of both the novel and the series of Universal and […]
