CBS’s Funniest Sitcom Is Still Afraid To Take Big Swings, and It’s Hurting the Show

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CBS’s Funniest Sitcom Is Still Afraid To Take Big Swings, and It’s Hurting the Show

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Ghosts Season 5 Episode 1.Five seasons in, and there’s something still comforting about one of CBS’s highest-rated comedies, Ghosts. Even when Joe Port and Joe Wiseman’s series chooses to lean on its signature…

Channing Tatum Is Charming, But Derek Cianfrance’s Overly-Safe Drama Falls A Little Short [TIFF]

An engaging enough dramatization of the true story of a man who became known for spending months hiding out in a Toys “R” Us to escape capture after robbing businesses by coming in through their roofs, Derek Cianfrance’s “Roofman” is…

Tron: Ares Review | Flickreel

It’s been fifteen years since Tron: Legacy. If you think that’s a lengthy gap, Legacy came out 28 years after the 1982 classic. While the announcement of Tron: Ares caught some off guard, 2025 seems like an appropriate time for…

NBC’s Drama Needs To Avoid This Potential Pitfall With Charlie’s Villain Status

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Brilliant Minds Season 2, Episode 4.Dr. Josh Nichols (Teddy Sears) is officially captaining the dysfunctional ship that is Bronx General on Brilliant Minds. It is definitely awkward for Wolf (Zachary Quinto) to…

This Shark-Infested World War II Survival Horror Needed More Bite

Beast of War is the latest film to ask how we might behave in the apocalypse. The Australian World War II-set shark-based horror is primarily set atop a floating piece of debris in the middle of the Timor Sea. Overcrowded,…

A Familiar Yet Comforting Sci-Fi Adventure

Matthew Loren Oates’ Xeno is a film that wears its influences on its sleeve. Directed, written, produced, and edited by Oates, the film feels like both an homage to and reimagining of the classic “child befriends alien” subgenre of science…

Tim Robinson’s HBO Max Mystery Series Is One of the Strangest Comedies You’ll Watch This Year

The last few years have been great for Tim Robinson fans. I Think You Should Leave, with its easy meme-ability, seems to only grow more popular with age, and this summer saw the release of Robinson’s first starring role in…

Mads Mikkelsen Stars In A Visually Spectacular Treat For Action Fans & Family Audiences Alike [TIFF]

Guillermo Del Toro, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson and Jean-Pierre Jeunet can take a seat. In television writer Bryan Fuller (“Hannibal”), making his feature directorial debut with “Dust Bunny,” we have a similarly accomplished visual stylist displaying compositional mastery that can…

Kiss of the Spider Woman Review

Over two decades ago, Bill Condon wrote the screenplay for Chicago, a musical where the protagonist escapes prison life through song and dance. Now Condon writes and directs Kiss of the Spider Woman, another film that blends incarceration with musical…

The CBS Spin-Off’s Most Unhinged Action-Packed Episode Finally Nails the Show’s Tone

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for NCIS: Tony & Ziva Episode 8.The central espionage storyline in NCIS: Tony & Ziva is back in full swing during Episode 8, "Fire Sale," and it is exactly the adrenaline pump the show…

Erotic Horror Is Long On Innuendo, Short On Climax As It Fails To Deliver On A Promising Premise

Picture this: you splurge on a stunning estate on AirBnB for a romantic weekend with your long-time partner, only for another couple to show up having done the same, on a different app. With the hosts not responding to messages…

Desire, Duty, and Deception Collide

Carmen Emmi’s Plainclothes is an evocative, bruising romantic thriller that takes place in the shadowy underbelly of 1990s New York, where personal identity collides with institutional control. More than just a story about police work, the film is a taut…

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