TRUE DETECTIVE [Season 3 Premiere Review]: Third Time’s The Charm.

Nic Pizzolatto's Southern Gothic police procedural has returned for its third season, this time headlined by Mahershala Ali, and with a storyline that eschews the over-philosophizing and morose platitudes that bogged down the sophomore season (about which I wrote on this fair site as well). Here, the return to basics approach applies as much to …

INTERSTELLAR [Review]: Tears From Heaven.

In his first directorial effort since the conclusion of The Dark Knight Trilogy, Christopher Nolan (Memento, Inception) turns his focus to the stars. Interstellar depicts a not-too-distant future in which the earth’s ability to sustain life is quickly diminishing and society is on the verge of collapse. The story follows former NASA test pilot, Cooper …