Tuesday, August 23 2011
Your Virtual Fall TV Preview: Tuesdays
Part two of a primetime look at what the major networks will be offering us, with predictions on what will stick and what will flop.
Friday, March 11 2011
Raise Your Hand If You’re Invulnerable!: An Interview with Harry Groener
While Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured many superb "Big Bads", Season 3's Mayor Richard Wilkins is not merely among the most remarkable on Buffy but among the most memorable in TV history. We talk at length with the man who brought the Mayor to life, Harry Groener.
Thursday, January 17 2008
Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007
PopMatters proffers its collection of 2007's most notable defective faves. And it's okay to laugh. After all, we'd probably do the same to you and your uncomfortable fixations as well.
Wednesday, November 14 2007
Southland Tales
The very incoherence of Southland Tales is something like an argument, its many pieces and pronouncements a deconstructive challenge to world order.
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.
Friday, March 23 2007
TMNT (2007)
The CGI allows the Turtles to have facial expressions, though here these mostly range from angsty to angstier.
Thursday, February 22 2007
The Grudge 2 (2006)
Shimizu pulls off the “this ghost is scary just because it’s looking at you” trick so effectively that it stays embedded in your mind.
Monday, November 13 2006
The Return (2006)
Joanna's restlessness is pathological and symptomatic. "Sometimes," she says, "I think that if I keep moving forward, nothing bad will happen to me."
Friday, October 13 2006
The Grudge 2 (2006)
Rethinking the very concepts of remake, sequel, and translation, The Grudge 2 is not a regular horror movie, or even a regular J-horror movie.
