Wednesday, April 29 2009
Summer of Same: July 2009
In a rare attempt at novelty, July jets along with only Harry Potter and the Ice Age crew sampling continuing series spoils. The rest provide unknown pleasures.
Thursday, January 15 2009
The Best Of Dr. Katz
There aren’t many DVDs that can offer such a variety of established comics doing what they do best.
Friday, May 23 2008
Recount
Recount doesn't quite argue that the system remains infinitely gameable for those who know it, those in power who wish to remain in power.
Monday, March 13 2006
Ice Age: Super Cool Edition (2002)
While studios have often been accused of meddling in the creative end of moviemaking, the new DVD presentation of this 2002 blockbuster, illustrates how readily Fox pandered to the movie-going public -- and how eager the filmmakers were to follow the audience's test scoring lead.
Friday, July 29 2005
The Job: The Complete Series
Denis Leary and Peter Tolan's desire to rehabilitate the sitcom not only meant changing the way characters interact with each other, but also the show's structure.
Tuesday, June 21 2005
Rescue Me
Rescue Me's rhythms are uneven, its tone sometimes spastic, its humor bleak, and its insights into masculine melodramatic pain as acute as any show on TV.
Thursday, August 14 2003
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003)
Eschewing the loopy romanticism of his past efforts, Alan Rudolph displays admirable restraint in representing domestic drudgery.
True Crime (1999)
Steve Everett is an old-school newspaper reporter, the kind who has improbable hunches that turn out to be right, who gives investigative reporters a good name, who's relegated to fiction these days. He's also more complicated than that, a self-styled macho boozer and womanizer, but recently slipped into another state, feeling confused and a little pathetic.
