The Doctor crossing paths with William Shakespeare is such an obvious gimmick, it seems an improbability that it’s never been portrayed onscreen before now.
One of the things that makes Big Love such an engrossing show is that it’s not afraid to make its central character kind of a selfish ass.
Thus far, David Milch and his cast have trod a fine line between the captivating and the repellent.
If Brad Bird has a signature auteur trait it would be that each of his films are struggles with and reactions to modernity.
It’s an experimental film that effaces authorship and demands no mental somersaults.
“The Runaway Bride” is the second Christmas special of the new Doctor Who and it packs a special punch.
I’m partial to scores, but for purposes of discussion, I consider songs to be movie music.
One look at the appalling slum where Pedro Costa has set In Vanda’s Room seems comment enough.
The fourth episode of Big Love’s second season, “Rock and a Hard Place,” was kind of clumsy in a lot of ways.
Completion does not necessarily mean forcing the end.
When did Everyman become Superman?
Farscape without the Dominar would be like The Empire Strikes Back without Yoda.
La Jetée is a pretext for Marker to examine the impermanence of experience.
The central question facing most members of fundamentalist religious groups or sects is how deeply they want to engage with the world.
This polemic about the corrupt nexus of health insurance companies, government and the pharmaceutical industry doesn’t just expose the powerful as wanting us out of the way.
The fences go up in the aftermath of the miracle that closed the second episode of John from Cincinnati.
Few critics appreciate, let alone care to understand, the horror genre, past or present.
It’s all about love.
Watch Kevin B. Lee’s video essay on Inferno by Dario Argento, #926 on this Shooting Down Pictures project .
The idea of living in two worlds is reflected in the storylines centered on the two teens in the Henrickson household.