• On ‘Wayne’ (And How YouTube Has Come A Long Way From Cat Videos)

    Created by Shawn Simmons, Wayne is a new web series, which premiered January 16 on YouTube Premium. This streaming subscription service (formerly YouTube Red, but rebranded YouTube Premium as of May of last year), started offering exclusive original content about two years ago in an effort to compete with sites like Netflix and Hulu, and…

  • ‘How to Get Away With Murder’ Shows Us How Devastating Guilt Can Be

    At the risk of overstating the obvious, HTGAWM is all about how to cover your tracks when you’ve committed a crime. It’s right there in the title. Almost everyone on the show has done one or more horrible things over the years, but between Annalise’s epic legal skills, incompetent law enforcement, blatant dishonesty, and sheer…

  • February Movie Preview: Date Night Animation

    As Valentine’s Day comes around, it’s the perfect opportunity to go out to dinner and then hit the theater with that special someone. What are you going to see? Well the two biggest February movies on the docket are animated titles directed toward children. There are some other releases that could fit your big date night….

  • The Week in Geek Entertainment News 2/1/2019 – Links

    All the important geek news from this week rounded up in one place. Zack Snyder is going to direct and produce Army of the Dead for Netflix. –Variety We get a closer look at the cast of Birds of Prey in a new teaser: Oscar Isaac joins Dune reboot. –NerdMuch The trailer for HANNA, which…

  • The (Other) iTunes $0.99 Movie of the Week: ‘Like Me’

    Every week, the folks at iTunes find a movie they like and make it available to rent for the low, low price of $0.99. I’m here to tell you whether that film is worth your hard-earned dollar. Ok, the featured $0.99 pick this week is the brutal, 2018 action/adventure tale of a boy and his…

  • ‘Gotham’ Reminds Us That Women Don’t Need Superheroes to Rescue Them

    If you’ve been following along, you’ve probably noticed that this last stretch of Gotham episodes has been pretty solid thus far (at least by Gotham standards). And while this week’s installment is a bit slower than the previous couple (only one near-explosion), it’s still not a bad hour of television. It sets the table nicely…

  • What’s Coming and Going From Netflix February 2019

    Anyone else in awe we’re already a month into 2019? Where does the time go? Oh, yeah.  Now I remember. All the movies, TV shows, original content, photo apps and just about every other technological distraction capitalism blessed us with. Who can blame us for loving it though? Netflix and chill, baby. Netflix and chill. Here’s…

  • The Week in Geek Entertainment News 1/25/2019 – Links

    All the important geek news from this week rounded up in one place. Leslie Jones WENT OFF this past weekend about this upcoming Ghostbusters movie set in the original universe. –Comic Book Resource Leslie Jones, of course, faced backlash for this opinion, and Paul Feig spoke out in support. –Comicbook.com Unsolved Mysteries reboot is coming…

  • The iTunes $0.99 Movie of the Week: ‘Juliet, Naked’

    Every week, the folks at iTunes find a movie they like and make it available to rent for the low, low price of $0.99. I’m here to tell you whether that film is worth your hard-earned dollar. This week, an obsessive fan, his long-suffering girlfriend, and a reclusive rock star form an unlikely love triangle…

  • The Week in Geek Entertainment News 1/18/2019 – Links

    All the important geek news from this week rounded up in one place. Is Josh Gad (who voices Olaf) going to play Penguin? He keeps dropping hints. –Comicbook.com The Spider-man: Far From Home trailer is here: Watch the #SpiderManFarFromHome teaser trailer now. 7.5.19 ?️ pic.twitter.com/KTTre9TAvI — Spider-Man (@SpiderManMovie) January 15, 2019 Jason Reitman is making a…

  • ‘Gotham’ Is Back to Its Wild, Unpredictable Self (And It’s Fantastic)

    After a promising season premiere, Gotham took its foot off the gas last week and coasted through a lackluster episode that just wasn’t much fun. So, in this shortened final run,  “Penguin, Our Hero” becomes a pretty important episode. Gotham can’t afford too many boring weeks, and two in a row this early might kill…