Just as iZombie has aired its first episodes of its final season, showrunner Rob Thomas is readying Season 4 of the series that made him famous, Veronica Mars. Eight new episodes of Veronica Mars are coming to streaming service Hulu this summer. The new series finds the snarky private investigator five years after the events […]
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Review by Elizabeth C. Bunce Netflix’s new series The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window is… weird. The title makes it obvious that it’s meant as a parody of films like The Girl on the Train, Gone Girl, and The Woman in the Window, and its star, an […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce After its first episode back in 2015, we called it “your next favorite TV series.” This week iZombie saw its last episode. Rob Thomas hasn’t directed the blockbuster movies or gained the same fame, but he’s filled in the gaps on television for genre fans where Joss Whedon left off. Along […]
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Review by Elizabeth C. Bunce The setup for Netflix’s new ghost story, Things Heard & Seen, is as classic as they come: a young family buys their dream home in the country, and it turns out to be haunted. Building on these classic bones, Things Heard & Seen is elevated by timely themes and a […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce It’s a rare thing. For more than 50 years TV series have fought back after cancellation to snatch a TV movie or several (see The Incredible Hulk and Veronica Mars) or holiday special (see Columbo, Kojak, The Brady Bunch, and a lot of classic TV) or moved to another network (see […]
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It was only last year that television viewers got a great look at the potential of theatrical quality, direct-to-Netflix films, via the superb, Academy Award-winning, black and white drama Roma (reviewed here). Will the next black and white movie produced by the Netflix studios fare similarly? Mank stars genre actor Gary Oldman as Herman Mankiewicz […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce We scuffled. He had a gun. So did I. I’m alive. He’s dead. Twenty years before Jessica Jones, there was Ms. Tree, writer Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty′s 1980s private eye with the clever homonym name. Her husband a cop, killed by the head of a crime family, she […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce It had a promising first and third season, twists and turns, clever story arcs, and a contender for the most faithful adaptation of a comic book series from the past decade. The creators of the fourth and final season of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina gave 2020 a much-needed batch of […]
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It all comes down to a single maxim: Be careful what you wish for. As often as not, in Fantasy Island’s seven seasons and 152 episodes, audiences never could be quite sure what Ricardo Montalban’s exotic island host Mr. Roarke was up to in his attempts to fulfill the desires of his exclusive guests on […]
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After a painfully long wait for fans, the CW Network renewed the hit horror comedy/drama iZombie for a fifth season last May. A year later and that final season is here, beginning with its season opener next Thursday. What began as a successful comic book series by writer Chris Roberson and artist Michael Allred for […]
