‘Sherlock’: “The Six Thatchers” Goes Beyond Disappointing Into Downright Nonsense

Holmes’ abductive methodology, through which an observed inference is arrived at through considering the known facts, may prove useful in … More

The Best TV of 2016: Preacher

Preacher occupies the foul-mouthed and gore-soaked terrain somewhere between NBC’s cancelled Constantine (2014) and the Starz network’s Ash vs Evil Dead (2015-). All three shows … More

The Best TV of 2016: Planet Earth II

Planet Earth II is a six-part British nature documentary from the BBC, but only considering it as such would be as … More

The Best TV of 2016: Game of Thrones

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. When you play the game of thrones, you … More

The Best Film of 2016: Nocturnal Animals

Near-naked ladies cavort on the enlarged frame in slow-motion close-up. The sizeable sirens brazenly fill the dimensions of our headspace … More

‘Richard III’ Is Ian McKellen’s Glorious Rendition of an Absolute Villain

If, as playground mnemonics for remembering the order of the visible colors within the spectrum of light are accurate and … More

‘Culloden’ and ‘The War Game’ Don’t Rewrite History, They Rewrite How We Can Learn From the Past

On the moors of Culloden 1746, through the smoke of cannon fire and the fog of war, we see two … More

Jekyll and Hyde: Series 1, Episodes 8, 9, and 10

Before we get into the meat and bones of Jekyll and Hyde‘s final three cadaverous episodes, one thing should be addressed … More

The Best TV of 2015: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Adapting Susanna Clarke’s novel, which Neil Gaiman called “unquestionably the finest English novel of the fantastic written in the last … More

The Best TV of 2015: Humans

Adapted from the acclaimed Swedish sci-fi drama Real Humans, Humans is like a modern day I, Robot, Blade Runner, or Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence where … More