John’s top 40 ‘Star Wars’ comic book stories: Nos. 30-21
Continuing the countdown of my top 40 “Star Wars” Expanded Universe (Legends) comic stories, here are Nos. 30-21.
Continuing the countdown of my top 40 “Star Wars” Expanded Universe (Legends) comic stories, here are Nos. 30-21.
Launching my countdown of the top 40 “Star Wars” Expanded Universe (Legends) comics for the film’s 40th anniversary, I start with Nos. 40-31.
Available via streaming and Redbox, “Chuck” was quietly in and out of theaters in 2017. The biopic’s titular character, Chuck Wepner (Liev Schreiber), is also under the radar: He was a local legend in Bayonne, […]
Arthur Byron Cover’s “Night of the Living Rerun” (March 1998), the third original novel in the young-adult line, anticipates future episodes like “I Only Have Eyes for You” (2.19) and “Restless” (4.22), while also calling […]
Not to be confused with TV’s “X-Men” series “The Gifted,” “Gifted” made a blip in movie theaters in April (it’s available via Redbox and streaming), but it’s worth checking out for those who enjoy sweet […]
Movie review: Mandy Moore and Claire Holt star in this taut thriller.
It’s hard to review “Life” (March 2017) — which I recently saw via Redbox – without entering into apologia. It is undeniably in the “Alien” ripoff subgenre. But it strikes me as odd that “Gravity” […]
At one point in “Baby Driver” — now available via Redbox and streaming — the gunshots are in perfect sync with the beats from the song in Baby’s (Ansel Elgort) earphones. It’s one example of […]
TV review: The creator of “Gilmore Girls” launches her third great series, this time via Amazon Prime.
I didn’t know if we needed another “King Kong” reboot per se, especially since Peter Jackson’s 2005 version was pretty great. And there are indeed some been-there, done-that moments in “Kong: Skull Island,” which hit theaters […]