True Detective Episode 2.5 Recap
Ray Velcoro is set on a heroic path in the face of overwhelming darkness in "Other Lives."
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True Detective Episode 2.4 Recap
We live in a chaotic world in which bad things happen for absolutely no coherent reason. The fourth hour of True Detective season two, “Down Will Come,” is remarkable in illustrating this concept.
True Detective Episode 2.3 Recap
"Maybe Tomorrow" is all about the many masks we wear — and the violence of removing them.
True Detective Episode 2.2 Recap
Hard boiled pulp collides with abject horror and True Detective hits its stride in the shocking "Night Finds You".
True Detective Episode 2.1 Recap
In True Detective's difficult second season you'll have to be your own Rustin Cohle.
Home Entertainment: Interstellar Review
Interstellar is certainly an impressive cinematic achievement on the biggest possible scale, just far from a perfect film. The highly visual film has been given top notch treatment for this showcase Blu-ray.
Interstellar Review
A tiresome, overstuffed, incoherent mess, Interstellar is far and away Christopher Nolan's worst film.
There’s a New Hobbit Trailer… Does Anyone Care?
With the last chapter of this triple-dipped prequel series coming out at the end of the year, we can't help but wonder is there any 'new material' left for us to get excited about?
Home Entertanment Round-Up: 4/7/14
We kick off this Home Entertainment round-up with two Martin Scorsese comedies - The King of Comedy and The Wolf of Wall Street - before looking at new releases for Sam Raimi's Darkman, Howard Hawks' El Dorado, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, and Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People. There's also some B-movie goodness with looks at Alec Baldwin in The Shadow, the 1980s horror flick Night of the Demons, and the made for TV 1973 thriller The Horror at 37,000 Feet
You Should Be Watching: 5 Miniseries to Fill the True Detective Void
Going through True Detective withdrawal? Good news! To help get you through this rough time, we’ve compiled a list of five miniseries to fill that empty spot in your heart with.
True Detective Episode 1.8 Recap
By the end, the thing that made True Detective darkest - the potential that Rust and Marty were truly bad people - became the very aspect that put the bright stars in Pizzolatto and Fukunaga’s night sky.
True Detective Episode 1.7 Recap
Disguised as a lit trail of gunpowder leading to a jam-packed keg, True Detective is a thread of black yarn that continues to burn throughout the crowded firework factory that Nic Pizzolatto has made for us, expertly missing all the fuses and gas cans that lesser shows would ignite.
Dork Shelf’s Picks for the 2014 Oscars
Our Film and Performing Arts Editor gives his picks for what he thinks will win big at tomorrow night's Oscar ceremony. Please note: he is still not an expert.
True Detective Episode 1.6 Recap
For the first time in True Detective’s run we have been left with an image, burdened with a heavy past, moving toward a future not known by anyone inside the show’s delicate clockwork collage. It’s no longer a matter of whodunit, it’s a matter of who’s-gonna-do-it.
True Detective Episode 1.5 Recap
Episode five takes True Detective's idea of temporal play and turns it into yet another aspect of horror that the show’s been so adept at delivering, delving into existential time-space contemplations and having its characters relive the nightmares contained in their lives.
