Mojave has more on its mind than the simple cat-and-mouse game it begins as, but Monahan's arid script is far more concerned with appearing clever and disruptive than actually being creatively competent.
Jane Got A Gun shows momentary glimpses into low-key excitement, but the movie is too languidly structured and lacks captivating-enough characters to turn into the satisfyingly succinct burst of entertainment that its title suggests.
If you're like me, you meet every announcement of a comic book-based television adaptation with simultaneous excitement and dread. Excitement, because if nothing else these "superhero" shows produce a modicum of fun action beats that their somewhat leaden stories may catch up with over time (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., for example). Then you might feel dread, because honestly we're only human and can fit just so many hours of TV into our week. The hero of FOX's aggressively loose adaptation of The Sandman spin-off comic series Lucifer isn't human, and his show - remember I say this with that same mix of happiness and misfortune - is definitely not worth your time. Okay, it's mostly happiness.
"I'm just trying to understand why people do this," former late-night star slash no-filter comedian Chelsea Handler admits to a group of her friends all discussing the necessity - or lack thereof - of marriage. It's this simple, pure motivation for answers and discovery that runs through all four episodes of Handler's new "docu-series" Chelsea Does (in order of intended viewing: Marriage, Racism, Silicon Valley, and Drugs). The topics may be cherry-picked for the expected shock value that Handler is known for, but the cool thing about Chelsea Does is that anything that's truly jaw-dropping doesn't come out of her mouth, but the mouths of some of the people she interviews in the course of learning more about everything from BDSM to the "truth" behind the Confederate cause in the Civil War.
The 100 absolutely explodes in season 3; the characters fascinate, the moral murkiness of the plot thickens, and the scope of the world expands to mythical proportions in wondrous, gripping, and appropriately novel ways.
Like last summer's Ant-Man, Agent Carter finds a way to make the smaller stakes of Peggy's noir sandbox as tense, credible, and addictively watchable as any other addition to the MCU.
