Monday, November 7 2011
‘The Walking Dead: Complete First Season’ When Featurettes Are More Plentiful Than Brains
Come for the brains, stay for the special features ...
Monday, August 22 2011
TV Highpoints and Lowpoints of 2010-2011… Number 1
Several new series debuted in April 2011 to transform what had been a mediocre season into an exceptional one, including Game of Thrones. AMC, meanwhile, systematically abused three of its great series, calling into question whether the cable network is truly ready for the big time.
Friday, August 19 2011
TV Highpoints and Lowpoints of 2010-2011… Number 2
The 2010-2011 TV season saw an unprecedented number of major film directors work in TV, while Charlie Sheen's meltdown was an embarrassment both to him and to those who fixated on his demise.
Wednesday, November 21 2007
Stephen King’s The Mist
The Mist indicts blind belief, but doesn't escape the weight of its clichés.
Sunday, January 1 1995
The Green Mile (1999)
ound dogs baying, wildflowers bending to the wind, angry white men in shirt-sleeves carrying shotguns, a swatch of cloth clinging to a tree branch. The details are all a little too familiar. You know you're looking at yet another recreation of the scary Old American South, specifically, you're looking at the set up for a lynching. This first scene of Frank Darabont's The Green Mile...
The Green Mile (1999)
It's not news to anyone that Steven King screen adaptations get tossed into two categories: absolute crap (Maximum Overdrive, Cujo, Pet Cemetery, et. al.) and important American cinema (Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Frank Darabont's previous King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption).
