Features
Friday, January 4 2008
The Best Big Screen Eye Candy of 2007
When flipping through my mental catalog of the year's films, certain scenes stand out. This past year offered a veritable feast of visual goodies.
Monday, January 8 2007
Unkept Promises: Most Disappointing Films of 2006
If it's easy to get excited about a new film, it's just as easy to feel disenchanted with the results. Looking over 2006, there were lots of unkept promises.
Monday, November 27 2006
Too Disturbing: After Dark Horrorfest, 17-19 November 2006
Women remain the victims of choice. This cliché indicates a lack of imagination visible throughout the festival's themes, characters, and plots.
Reviews
Friday, October 28 2011
'Grimm': A Different Sort of Detective Superpowers
How the Grimms' special gift can help Nick in his police work is obvious, but also silly. It doesn't take inherited superpowers to deduce the common thread among cases involving missing girls last seen in red sweatshirts.
Wednesday, October 5 2011
'American Horror Story' Asks When Horrible Things Happen to People, What Do They Become?
Contradictions, whether embodied by Vivian or found in her new haunted home, exemplify what works and what doesn’t about American Horror Story.
Thursday, September 29 2011
Who Would Ever Want 'Community' to Be Less Weird?
Evolution, biology, power and prison and monkey gas: this is typical of the kind of amusing thematic density that Community manages week to week.
Friday, September 23 2011
Chronic Unemployment + Seamy Business Practices + Moral Relativism = 'Burke and Hare'
Andy Serkis may just be the most magnetic film actor in recent memory. Watching him in live action is so captivating, we might forget that he's best known as the master of motion-capture acting.
Wednesday, September 21 2011
'The X Factor' Is Really Good TV
When I attended a taping of The X Factor in Seattle, I found myself cheering and clapping during several strong performances. But I was far more emotionally invested in watching those same performances on the small screen than I was able to muster in person.
