Does The Walking Dead’s clever title refer to the show’s literally deceased zombies roaming the countryside, or to its central characters, who have been on borrowed time on a joyless hellscape? Maybe both? In any case, over the course of its nine season run, the defining feature of the horror hit has been its willingness…
Sling Movie Spotlight: Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo: Last Blood drops on Friday, with a title that threatens to bring to a close the epic saga of John Rambo, a Vietnam vet who comes home to a country that, rather than celebrate his service, reviles him. Now America’s longest-serving soldier goes to war with a Mexican drug cartel. Don’t believe…
Sling Movie Spotlight: Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman’s had quite a run: Married first to Tom Cruise and now to Keith Urban, she’s played a neurosurgeon, a psychologist, a grieving mother, a muse, an ADA, Virginia Woolf… the list goes on and on. Along the way she’s been been nominated for four Academy Awards, winning once, and received 13 Golden Globe…
Sling TV’s 2019 Fall Season Preview
For all the changes to the ways in which TV is made, distributed and consumed — there are screens on gas pumps, for Pete’s sake — the fall TV season has managed to endure. And so it is that we have on the horizon a mountain of series debuts as well as returning favorites set…
‘The Terror: Infamy’ is an Engrossing Historical Horror Mystery
There may not have been a better TV surprise in all of 2018 than AMC’s spring limited series The Terror, based on a 2007 novel by Dan Simmons and starring Jared Harris and Ciaran Hinds. The story concerned a pair of 19th-century British naval ships in search of the then-theoretical Northwest Passage through the Arctic,…
Can I Get an Amen? ‘Preacher’ Returns for its Final Season
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s adaptation of Preacher, Garth Ennis’ turn-of-the-century hit for Vertigo Comics, announced itself with a bang in 2016, with a powerful force descending from the heavens and causing a man in Africa to explode — mid-sermon — all over his parishioners. Preacher‘s pedal has remained nailed to the floor ever since, right up to the…
The Hero is the Villain in the Final Season of ‘Legion’
The third and final season of Legion is here and it promises to be a fitting end to one of TV’s most distinctive, overlooked and straight-up bonkers gems of the past few years. Showrunner/creator Noah Hawley (Fargo) appears determined to go out with a bang, having enlisted directors Andrew Stanton and Carlos López Estrada to…
The Gleaming Brilliance of ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Finally Comes to TV
The latest offering from FX, a self-aware mockumentary following the lives of four ancient vampires living in Staten Island, may be one of the best things I have seen on television. As a lifelong fan of Jemaine Clement’s work and his original 2014 film by the same name, What We Do in the Shadows is…