Wednesday, September 7 2011
Your Virtual Fall TV Preview: Wednesdays
Part three of a primetime look at what the major networks will be offering us, with predictions on what will stick and what will flop.
Monday, September 28 2009
Away We Go
Another movie about and/or aimed at educated, self-aware 20-and-30-somethings, a certain portion of which, of course, hate nothing more than a movie trying to entertain them or depict them in any way.
Friday, June 12 2009
Away We Go
Away We Go is breezy and summer-appropriate -- but its central couple still has problems.
Tuesday, April 28 2009
Summer of Same: June 2009
This month's "original" fare offers a take on a Sid and Marty Krofft classic, more battling seizure robots, and the retaking of '70s subway thriller. Everything old is new again.
Thursday, February 26 2009
The Black List: Vol. 2
The sheer beauty of the images creates its own sort of narrative, a visual demonstration of The Black List's original impetus to recover the typically "negative" denomination of the "black list" and reframe it as positive and inspiring.
Shrek the Third (2007)
Nothing looks to be ongoing so much as Shrek, except maybe the other sequel machines huffing and puffing this summer.
Tuesday, May 1 2007
Monkey Business (Part 1: May)
Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.
Friday, March 2 2007
Idiocracy (2006)
A brilliantly conceived, but fitfully executed comedy about how bad things are likely to get if we keep going where we're going.
