Not the Dreggs: ‘TMNT’ reaches new heights in Season 9 (1995)
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): Even without Channel Six’s and Krang’s gangs, the show becomes well-animated in both senses of the word.
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Not the Dreggs: ‘TMNT’ reaches new heights in Season 9 (1995)
Chandler salvages screenplay for one more Marlowe novel, ‘Playback’ (1958)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Though it’s the slightest Marlowe novel, it still gives us the goods we’ve come to expect.
‘Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan’ (1982) and the Kobayashi Maru
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Montalban’s performance and a thoughtful piece of military strategizing combine to make this an elite “Trek” entry.
‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ is almost impossible to follow
Movie review: For viewers not concerned with plot and theme, the film delivers spectacular action … eventually.
Red sky at night, animators’ delight: A look at ‘TMNT’ Season 8 (1994)
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): The lack of comedic threads make these eight Wise-penned episodes dour, but the animation makes a huge leap.
‘True Romance’ (1993) a violent fairy-tale love story
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Even coming out in the wake of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” the depth of acting talent in this Tarantino-Scott riff is incredible.
Coogler, Jordan team up again for too-safe ‘Sinners’
Movie review: It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive, but it’s hard to imagine a worse place to exist than stressfully racist 1931 Mississippi.
‘TMNT’ ‘Wises’ up for surprisingly strong Season 7 (1993, CBS)
‘TMNT’ flashback (TV review): David Wise delivers standouts “Night of the Dark Turtle,” “The Legend of Koji” and “Shredder Triumphant!,” plus fan favorite “Night of the Rogues.”
Marlowe actually makes friends in ‘The Long Goodbye’ (1953)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): However, that doesn’t turn his life or his job into a breeze in Raymond Chandler’s meatiest novel.
‘French Connection II’ (1975) brings the hard-a** Drug War to France
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Hackman actually improves on his Oscar-winning role in Frankenheimer’s more harrowing sequel.