Monday, June 8 2009
The Closer: Season Five Premiere
As The Closer evolves both formally and thematically, Brenda and her team are forced to reflect on their own assumptions and actions.
Monday, January 26 2009
The Closer: Season Four Return
The fourth season return of The Closer finds fresh ways to mine the tensions between work and private life endured by LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick).
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.
Monday, July 21 2008
The Closer
In The Closer, Kyra Sedgwick's Brenda Johnson often walks a fine line between complex and irritating.
Wednesday, July 16 2008
The Closer: The Complete Third Season
Johnson is a new breed of television heroine: smart, driven, successful and about three-eighths of an inch away from unlikeable.
Tuesday, June 19 2007
The Closer - The Complete Second Season
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Lee Johnson cracks cases because she knows what makes cracked people tick.
Monday, June 18 2007
The Closer
At the office this season, Brenda faces ongoing budget issues that threaten to break up the team she spent two TNT seasons convincing they were a team.
Friday, January 20 2006
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2006)
Despite its title, Albert Brooks' new movie, like all his movies, is about his world.
Tuesday, December 6 2005
Homecoming
The genius of Homecoming is that it speaks an antic-seeming truth to power, even as U.S. news media can't.
