By Thomas McGlone Hofstra Critics President Tomas Alfredson’s “The Snowman” is not simply a bad movie; it’s a movie so catastrophic that it ought to be looked at as...

The exposition for “Free Fire” almost sounds like the start of a contrived joke: a couple of Irish Republican Army members, a few junkies and a handful of egotistical gunrunners walk into...

On Dec. 7, Hofstra Critics presented The Art of Film Criticism with Erik Davis. Davis has mentored over 100 writers and appeared multiple times on the Today Show and CBS as a film correspondent. Being...

Pokémon is viewed, in both American and Japanese culture, as one of the greatest role-playing games ever created. Soon after Pokémon Red and Blue hit the market in the 1990s, Pokémon...

Narrative comedy on TV is changing. It is a change long in the works, one that began years ago. The first seeds of TV comedy’s evolution were evident in shows like “The Office” and...

On Nov. 7, 2006, “Gears of War” was released and it reinvented the third-person genre of video games. With its impressively intuitive controls, imaginative world and machine guns with chainsaws...