The Shield: Season 1

Inspired by a real life police corruption scandal in the late ’90s known as “The Rampart Scandal,” Shawn Ryan developed a police crime drama under, “Rampart.” A spiritual antitheses of a lighthearted police comedy, “Nash Bridges.” Unlike the titular good cop, Rampart involves a bad cop named, Vic Mackey.” He leads a team tasked to […]

Daredevil: Season 2

Daredevil’s second season officially streamed in 2016 (same year Deadpool came out) on Netflix and moved to Disney Plus in 2022. Charlie Cox reprised his role as the titular character in “The Defenders” mini-series, a third season in The Man Without Fear’s solo series and guest starred in “She-Hulk.” Anyway, Mr. Cox recently portrayed Matt […]

Flashback Review: Catch Me If You Can

In 1980, former con man, Frank Abagnale Jr. published a semi-autobiographical book titled, “Catch Me If You Can.” Loosely based on Frank’s life, his parents split resulting in him running away from home. Motivated to get his parents back together, Frank seeks to obtain money forging checks, pretending to be a pilot, doctor and prosecutor. […]

Edward Scissorhands

Fresh from the critical and commercial success of Michael Keaton’s “Batman,” Tim Burton worked on his next film. An original idea based on one of his drawings titled, “Edward Scissorhands.” The drawing is a lonely pale man with scissors for hands. He represents Tim’s loneliness lacking friends growing up. Tim hired novelist, Caroline Thompson to […]

L.A. Confidential

In 1990, crime novelist, James Ellroy published a novel titled, “L.A. Confidential.” The third installment of a book series, “L.A. Quartet” takes place in the early 1950s following three detectives with distinctive personalities. Ed Exley, Bud White & Jack Vincennes investigate a string of murders in the underbelly of Los Angeles filled with sin and […]

The Penguin

After “The Batman” became a critical and commercial success, Matt Reeves & Warner Bros (WB for short) announced they’re working on two sequels with Robert Pattinson reprising his role as the Caped Crusader. Thanks to Colin Farrell’s performance as “The Penguin,” he signed to reprise his role in a spin-off mini-series. Set a week after […]