Pompeii, 2014. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Starring Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Kiefer Sutherland, Jared Harris, Joe Pingue, Currie Graham, Carrie-Anne Moss and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. SYNOPSIS: When a lowly gladiator is sent to Pompeii to fight in the arena, a series of tales play out amidst the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. With the evolution […]

Matt Smith reviews episode 14 of The Following season 2… With the finale of The Following coming up so soon, the themes inherently linked to religion are coming to the fore. It seems that in the latter half of the season, the producers decided to ramp up the religious overtones. They’ve started moving the characters […]

The Last Keepers, 2013. Directed by Maggie Greenwald. Starring Aidan Quinn, Virginia Madsen, Olympia Dukakis and Zosia Mamet. SYNOPSIS: A young woman and her family discover she has magical powers, possibly fulfilling a prophecy that has been in their family for years. She must negotiate that with the everyday tribulations of school and growing up. […]

Matt Smith reviews episode 18 of Elementary season 2… Sherlock Holmes, as discussed in previous reviews, is a complicated character. Done in so many ways before (BBC drama decades ago, BBC drama a couple of years ago, Hollywood blockbuster, as well as in various other media formats), you have to wonder if any episode in […]

Matt Smith reviews episode 13 of The Following season 2… The producers of The Following seem to have been biding their time. While nowhere near impeccable in their setting up of the end times their religious war has implied, things are coming to a head. Joe Carroll has another master plan that looks like it’ll […]

Matt Smith reviews the season finale of True Detective… True Detective is a prime example that, even with our methods of watching a TV show changing, that stories don’t have to necessarily change. It also exemplifies the way TV can be about telling shorter, self-contained stories. And while this could’ve been handled well enough in […]