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.
Sunday, January 13 2008
Comanche Moon
The most outrageous and most pleasurable element in Comanche Moon, Inish Scull (Val Kilmer) is also its strangest, least plausible, and most convincing incarnation of "history."
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, April 12 2006
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
While the movie's poetry is often stunning, the DVD docs are decidedly and disappointingly banal.
Friday, December 9 2005
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
It's Alma's silence that makes Brokeback Mountain feel so serious. Her pain is neither exquisite nor elegiac. It is only hard.
Monday, December 5 2005
ER / The West Wing
The West Wing's chief relationships have been tested and compromised, turning Sorkin's noble, fast-walking liberals into more than the sum of their quips and ideals.
Friday, March 26 2004
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
In the sequel no one needs to see, the Scooby Gang grapples with the stress of stardom.

































