Noxon’s ‘Point Pleasant’ (2005) an interesting failure
One-season wonders (TV review): Marti Noxon breaks free from the Whedonverse to take a crack at a horror drama.
Mystery
Before ‘Bates Motel’: ‘Psycho: Sanitarium’ (2016) (Book review)
In this series, I’m looking back at the books and movies of the “Psycho” franchise before its TV revival in “Bates Motel,” which will conclude its five-season run this month. (Granted, “Psycho: Sanitarium” came out […]
Before ‘Bates Motel’: ‘Psycho House’ (1990) (Book review)
In this series, I’m looking back at the books and movies of the “Psycho” franchise before its TV revival in “Bates Motel,” which will conclude its five-season run this month. Four years before his death […]
Before ‘Bates Motel’: ‘Psycho II’ (1982) (Book review)
In this series, I’m looking back at the books and movies of the “Psycho” franchise before its TV revival in “Bates Motel,” which will conclude its five-season run this month. More than two decades after […]
Before ‘Bates Motel’: ‘Psycho’ (1959) (Book review)
Welcome to a new series where I look back at the books and movies of the “Psycho” franchise before its revival in “Bates Motel,” one of the best TV shows of the decade, which will […]
As ‘Bates Motel’ moves into ‘Psycho’ territory, it does its own thing – which is cool (TV review)
The “Bates Motel” (10 p.m. Eastern Mondays, A&E) narrative has steamrolled its way into the plot of the 1960 movie “Psycho,” its source material, the past couple weeks. I was looking forward to seeing those classic scenes […]
‘The Obsidian Chamber’ is Preston & Child’s craziest ride
Book review: The 16th Agent Pendergast novel is Preston & Child’s craziest ride, but it’s also a key Constance Greene novel.
Preston & Child’s ‘Beyond the Ice Limit’ blends familiar sci-fi themes into a fun, but too shallow, ride (Book review)
After receiving “many thousands” of letters and emails asking for a sequel to “The Ice Limit” (2000) (as they recount in an author’s note), Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child finally go “Beyond the Ice Limit” (May 2016, […]
Preston & Child explore salt marshes, mudflats and lighthouses in ‘Crimson Shore’ (Book review)
“Crimson Shore” (November 2015 hardcover; now in paperback) is in many ways a classic standalone Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child potboiler, but it also has character, plot and thematic elements that push the Agent Pendergast series […]
First episode impressions: ‘Riverdale’ (TV review)
“Riverdale’s” (9 p.m. Eastern, Thursdays, The CW) broad strokes will be familiar to anyone who’s seen a high school drama TV series or movie before, but it has a few elements that might make it worth […]