If the movie has the ring of a high school or college reunion, that’s because that’s pretty much what it’s like.
Criterion resurrects the film with a luminous restoration, pairing it with a helpful handful of extras on its production and legacy.
A brick of a set clearly trying to out-super-duper all previous models. A little overkill? Why resist?
The only thing sharper and sexier than the fangs on True Blood is the writing.
One of the more enervating things about Lost is the way that it will occasionally mistake name checking, say, a famous philosopher for depth.
Pity the poor vampire.
Is there anything more to see, anything left to say about Blade Runner?
Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner thrives thanks to its fundamental appropriation of noir elements.
Deep down, you just knew that Whitney Ellsworth was too good to live.
The show depicts human beings as they are—scatterbrained, selfish, myopic, sometimes viciously cruel.
Savage men who disagree beat each other’s brains in. “Civilized” men who disagree send proxies to beat each other’s brains in.
Let us now praise the law.
In Deadwood, no one incident is isolated; it inevitably touches everyone and everything, reverberating throughout a community now readying itself for its first legal elections.
HBO’s Deadwood, which begins its second season tonight, is the greatest dramatic series in the history of American television.
Make your claim on Deadwood: The Complete First Season.