Tuesday, June 21 2011
The End Was All Too Near: ‘Stargate Universe: The Complete Final Season’
Without much critical acclaim or ratings, SGU delivered 40 episodes of excellent storytelling.
Friday, August 13 2010
‘Stargate Universe: SGU 1.5’: Look Again, and Much More Is Revealed
Delving into complex issues of faith, redemption, humanity and power within a space opera setting, Stargate Universe demands close attention from the viewer.
Monday, December 8 2008
24: Redemption
Redemption manages to locate an emotional center than had been missing from 24 since…well, if not ever, since at least the first season.
Friday, November 21 2008
24: Redemption
In Africa, where children are forced to soldier, Jack realizes, every day is full of terror -- not just the 24-hour spates he's used to confronting.
Friday, January 4 2008
The Best Big Screen Eye Candy of 2007
When flipping through my mental catalog of the year's films, certain scenes stand out. This past year offered a veritable feast of visual goodies.
Monday, November 12 2007
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
The list of deliberate historical blunders that Hitler: The Rise of Evil shamelessly uses to enhance its moralistic agenda is unacceptably large for a production that claims to be a biographical epic.
Friday, May 11 2007
28 Weeks Later (2007)
The moral universe is intractably skewed in 28 Weeks Later, a film that works hard to reflect the world around it.
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.
Thursday, January 23 2003
To End All Wars (2001)
Explores separate and collective struggles to survive, the prisoners' strengths and weaknesses.
