Last year, with Paramount and Mel Gibson’s blessing, Brian Helgeland got the chance to reedit the film to his original cut.
On the show, when a character compliments another character on bettering himself, or simply changing, it’s usually a sick joke.
David Chase knows that the sensuality of pop music and movies and the guilt of pretending to be a good Catholic boy are forever tangled up.
Fans of the show (and other fictional mob characters) often lack a true understanding of the mafia’s history.
My personal observation is that SciFi jumped into the series without proper viewer preparation.
A common knock against Lost is how much of a boy’s club the show is.
It’s worth considering where The Sopranos fits in the pantheon of great mob stories that have been committed to film.
Much of “Christopher” seems more appropriate for an op-ed piece than as a crucial hour in a terrific episodic television program.
The first six episodes of The Shield’s sixth season build to a scene that we’ve seen coming from the very beginning.
The series thrives on unpredictability, but Janice can always be counted on to do exactly what Janice would do.
Some may complain that his work is too esoteric, but it’s unsettling, because it it’s more familiar than we’d like to admit.
The average baseball movie is not actually about baseball.
Despite his many years of service, Paulie has never gotten the bump he feels he deserves.
If you don’t already know what to expect from The Tudors, the credits will tip you off.
And that’s the end of that.
Callis, who’s held some of this season together with his performance, was essentially comic relief in this episode.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with the ad-hoc approach to long-form storytelling.
Calvert DeForest wobbled and fumbled his way onto the American cultural stage via NBC’s Late Night with David Letterman.
On the Bowery is one of the most ecstatically beautiful black-and-white films ever made.
Sandra Bullock’s lack of vanity suits a film about normalcy’s violent end.