Reviews

Watchmen

July 16, 2009 // 0 Comments

A number of years ago, someone recommended Alan Moore's "Watchmen" to me with the stipulation that is was the best and most mature graphic novel ever. I read it and I did not like it. If "mature" means convoluted and hard to [...]

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

July 15, 2009 // 0 Comments

Lesbians, come on, bend yo' wrist like this. Gay folk, come on, bend yo' wrist like this. Bisexuals, come on, let me see you bend yo' wrist. Trisexuals, bend yo' wrist like this. These are lyrics from the closing song in "I Now [...]

Night Train

July 6, 2009 // 0 Comments

Set in an indistinct location in a vaguely contemporary time period, "Night Train" features a nightmare journey on what appears to be the Polar Express. On an ethereally snowy night, a mysterious man climbs aboard the titular train without a [...]

The Moody Blues: Threshold Of A Dream

July 3, 2009 // 0 Comments

Like Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues receive all the critical acclaim they deserve and they quietly maintain a legion of fans ranging from Baby Boomers on down the generation chain. The Moodies organized themselves in the mid-sixties on a common adhesive [...]

The Echelon Conspiracy

July 2, 2009 // 0 Comments

Borrowing ideas from other movies and mindlessly stringing them up in an attempt to create a new movie is typically a bad idea. Just watch any Quentin Tarantino movie and you can witness how ridiculously clueless such "inspired" filmmaking can [...]

Fast Company

June 29, 2009 // 0 Comments

When the name David Cronenberg is mentioned, it usually conjures up memories of Jeff Goldblum metamorphosing into a giant insect, James Woods making love to a breathing, pulsating television set, or a man's head exploding. These and countless other [...]

Inside Man

June 19, 2009 // 0 Comments

Spike Lee's "Inside Man" concerns a bank robbery. A most unusual bank robbery, in fact. The robbery is organized by Dalton Russell (Clive Owen), who addresses the camera directly at the film's opening to give us the Who, What, When, [...]

Spy Game

June 17, 2009 // 0 Comments

Paranoia and double-crosses have always been staples of espionage films. We've all seen spy movies where a character gets duped by someone that they could trust — typically someone who turned out to be the enemy. Well, what if you were a spy [...]

Dr. Strangelove

June 16, 2009 // 0 Comments

The 1960s was a good decade for director Stanley Kubrick. In fact, it marked the height of his financial and critical success. He opened the decade on a bittersweet note with the sword-and-sandal epic "Spartacus" (1960), the kind of adventurous [...]

The Best of Whose Line Is It Anyway?

June 8, 2009 // 0 Comments

The American incarnation of Britain's "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" proved to be a great success for eight seasons from 1998 to 2006. The show, which features four comics participating in games that call for improvisational comedy, offered [...]
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