Thursday, October 16 2008
Cinema Qua Non - Indispensable DVDs: Part 3
Day Three - The final ten, a cross-culture collection teeming with big ideas, larger than life visions, and perhaps the greatest documentary on rugby you've probably never heard of.
Wednesday, October 10 2007
Part 3 - The New Networks
It would never work... no one challenged the reigning broadcast junta and survived. No surprise then that the upstarts snuck in and changed the face of TV forever.
Wednesday, June 27 2007
Kitchen Confidential - The Complete Series
Alas, while leavened with small insights into the lives of professional chefs and benefiting from high production values, this series was, ultimately, not much more than a conventional workplace comedy, its premise employed as a set up for wacky hijinks, and, above all, as a pretext for sexual and romantic tension.
Monday, September 26 2005
Kitchen Confidential
Presentation, on the plate or on television, goes a long way, and Confidential has the look of a winner.
Sunday, January 1 1995
The Geena Davis Show
What's puzzling is why Davis would return to television in this paint-by-numbers sitcom in which she plays a nearly brain-dead career woman-slash-stepmother.
