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Sunday, August 30 2009

Californication’s Note-perfect Becca

Madeleine Martin reflects on a season of Californication that saw her character, Becca Moody, play an essential part in Hank’s slow transition to adulthood.


Friday, September 26 2008

Californication: Season Two Premiere

Consider David Duchovny's Hank Moody a hero for the noughties.


Thursday, August 21 2008

Californication: Season 1

An imperfect show that, much like its protagonist, has the potential to be better than it is.


Monday, April 11 2005

Revelations

Though NBC calls it 'religious drama', the six-episode series Revelations, is more aptly described as a supernatural thriller.


Monday, July 28 2003

Solaris (2002)

'The one thing you'll see as you watch the film, what you'll take note of, is how still it is.'"


Thursday, May 8 2003

City of Ghosts (2002)

A strangely moralistic romance, premised on his relationship with the setting, Cambodia.


Friday, November 29 2002

Solaris (2002)

The liveliest moments in Steven Soderbergh's Solaris belong to Jeremy Davies' hands.


Friday, August 30 2002

feardotcom (2002)

Udo Kier stumbles down a dark New York subway stairway, his face sweaty and deeply shadowed, his eyes popping in that Udo Kierian way.


Sunday, January 1 1995

Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)

In the hands of able actors, Shakespeare's 'taffeta phrases, silken terms, precise, three-piled hyperboles, and spruce affections' are a passport to the land of milk and honey.


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