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Peter Pan Has Left the BuildingThe King of Pop’s life and times reads like a parallel social history of the United States since Ike’s White House tenure. [6 July 2009] Reviews
The Secret Policeman Rocks!It pains me to suggest that watching The Secret Policeman Rocks! is akin to swallowing a tablespoon of humanist medicine... [12 November 2009] 
Merry Sitcom: Christmas Classics From TV’s Golden AgeThe overarching theme among these stories is an often unacknowledged tension between affluent postwar consumer culture and a more austere mode of living. [9 November 2009] 
Pic up the Mic: The Evolution of HomohopThis vibrant documentary casts light upon the duality of socio-sexual identity and identity politics. [7 July 2009] 
Dominick Dunne: After the PartyDominick Dunne’s own story has all the requisite tragic-romantic elements of any personality he’s written about. [26 June 2009] 
Cities of the Underworld: The Complete Season TwoA flashy, MTV-quick, pixilated Cliff’s Notes, manna for the I-pod generation. [25 May 2009] 
Johnny Got His GunJoe Bonham is a stark, bracing reminder of such horror in a way that Frankenstein’s monster could never be. [18 May 2009] 
Voyage of the DammedAn affecting, if flawed, middlebrow drama about a seldom-discussed Depression-era tragedy. [7 May 2009] 
From Mambo to Hip-Hop: A South Bronx TaleA seminal document of cooperation between two marginalized groups in American society who cooked up some beautiful music together. [5 May 2009] 
Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock BandAn amusing, breezily empathetic examination of the trials of a trail-blazing group which may have to settle for seeing others reap the fruits of their labors. [23 April 2009] 
Soundstage: Foreigner - LiveMany longtime Foreigner fans may have fretted that the group gave up the ghost, but judging by their recent appearance on this showcase, such concerns are for naught. [9 April 2009] 
Dennis Potter: 3 to RememberPotter crafted unsettling suburban-gothic morality tales that polarized audiences while attracting heated denouncements from numerous politicos and pundits. 
‘Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie ParisWhen he sizzled: This tells of the bittersweet odyssey of “Skylark” Jackie Paris. [2 April 2009] 
Black Is…Black Ain’tA deceptively gentle plea for black Americans to embrace each other and accept difference. [1 April 2009] 
What Makes Sammy Run?Sammy has all too many disciples -- Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko, Tim Robbin’s Griffin Mill -- but nobody does it better than the master. [19 March 2009] 
The Singing RevolutionA tense account of Estonia’s breakaway from the Soviet Union, deriving some of its power from not being an oft-told story in the global media. 
Noah’s Arc: Jumping the BroomThis is by-the-numbers hackwork devised to encourage self-esteem in gay African-American males and greater acceptance for homosexual lifestyles in black America. [25 February 2009] 
A Hero Ain’t Nothin but a SandwichAn earnest, sometimes ploddingly so, examination of ghetto life as seen through the emotional prism of a 13-year-old boy. [18 February 2009] 
Breakfast At Tiffany’s: Paramount Centennial CollectionIn many respects, this is a love letter to a tony, cosmopolitan New York which perhaps never existed, a Big Apple devoid of muggings, racial strife, or transit strikes. [26 January 2009] 
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