Michael Boyle

Nearly a decade before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were shooting machine guns at each other in their own on-screen home, Scott Bakula and Maria Bello were beating each other up in the pilot episode of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." The 1996 CBS show started…

"Past Lives" is a heartfelt film about two childhood friends, separated by hemispheres at 12 years old, who end up reconnecting over 20 years later. Although there's still clearly something there between Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), adult…

"The Inspection" is an intense, thoughtful film about a young gay Black man named Ellis French (Jeremy Pope) who decides to join the military in the early 2000s. He's doing it partly to escape his current life of homelessness, but also in an attempt…

Regular viewers of Adult Swim probably know animator Lee Hardcastle from his work on those 15-second skits that often play between commercials. Those segments, called "The Non-Canonical Adventures of Rick and Morty," are wonderful,…

"The Inspection" is a powerful, beautifully filmed drama written and directed by Elegance Bratton. It follows Ellis French (Jeremy Pope) as he joins the Marines in the early 2000s, seeing it as his only path towards escaping homelessness and…

"The Inspection" is writer-director Elegance Bratton's first feature film, and it's certainly a great start. The movie follows Ellis French (Jeremy Pope), a young, Black, gay man in the early 2000s who decides to join the Marines with the goal of…

"Rick and Morty" season 6 is returning this weekend after taking a few weeks off, and there's a lot to look forward to. Rick has his portal gun back, there's an Evil Rick out there who still needs to be taken down, and the writing seems to be as…

It may be hard to believe, but Rick and Morty has been on the air for eight years now. The show’s 49 episodes so far, which would’ve made up nearly two full seasons on a standard network sitcom, have been split up between five seasons since 2013.…

Of all the shows airing these days, it doesn't seem fair to criticize "Reacher" for its lack of realism. Like the books before it, the Amazon TV series is a wish-fulfillment fantasy series for middle-aged dads (which is not to suggest other people…