by George Kaplan | Jul 2, 2014 | DVDs, Reviews
Creator Nic Pizzolatto’s HBO series supposedly “broke the internet”, and proved one of the most passionately argued-over programs in recent television history, and with good reason, as this slowest-of-slow-burns drama is as dark and damn difficult as they come....
by George Kaplan | Jul 1, 2014 | Books, Reviews
Stephen King (Hachette) 2014, 405pp, RRP $32.99 Mere months after his Doctor Sleep, the long-time-coming sequel to his original The Shining (the book, not the film), King’s latest is a return to scary reality, and while this isn’t one of his horror tales, it’s still...
by George Kaplan | May 9, 2014 | DVDs, Reviews
David Tennant’s in fine form (and sporting his actual Scottish accent) in this three-part BBC drama with a nasty edge, and yet he’s slightly undone by some dodgy script conveniences and at least one yawning credibility gap. His junior barrister Will Burton is known as...
by George Kaplan | May 9, 2014 | DVDs, Reviews
Jude Law tries hard to squash his still fairly pretty-boy image with this effort from NY-born writer/director Richard Shepard, who’s always able to assemble terrific casts for films like The Matador and The Hunting Party and then seems unsure what to do with them. Law...
