Was General Spanky as funny in 1936 as it is today?
What rankles me the most is the received wisdom that somehow Flags of Our Fathers has too broad of a canvas for Eastwood and thus is outside his particular wheelhouse.
Carcetti is keen to meddle, but knows what to leave be.
For the better part of “Torn,” Battlestar Galactica seemed to almost turn into Lost.
The cliffhanger was a staple component of classic Doctor Who, and many a fan has bemoaned the new series’s self-contained storylines eroding this old standby.
The beauty of sci-fi is that you can always hope for improvements in the future—to technology, society, equality.
A bit of a trick question, admittedly.
Call it a coincidence, call it karma, call it the weirdest grand design imaginable.
Sloppy Seconds gets off on the twisted lengths people will go to in order to get their groove on.
Produced out of PBS’s affiliate station WGBH in Boston, Frontline World ignores marketplace wisdom.
Lazy Laughter: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The film invites us to squirm at uncomfortable human interactions that are funny for reasons at once superficial and deeply thoughtful.
I’m still unconvinced by Heroes, but the series certainly knows how to construct a cliffhanger.
If Curly’s Christmas letter could take human form, it would clearly take the form of Jennifer Jason Leigh
He’s roughly a few thousand years old and still a hopeless romantic…or a tana leaf junkie, depending on who you ask.
The cat-and-mouse isn’t much of a contest at this point.
The final montage suggests that anger at the collaborators won’t easily fade away.
“Rise of the Cybermen” marks the return of the titular foes that occupy the #2 spot (after the Daleks) on the Doctor’s list of most oft-encountered enemies.
So, tell me what movie ad frightened you?
One of the things that makes Lost such a trying viewing experience is its frequently lazy narrative shortcuts.
What makes a great movie monologue?