Tuesday, August 30 2011
Your Brain in the Voting Booth
President Obama may not be everything people’s brains deceived them into thinking he was, but he’s who he said he would be all along.
Thursday, April 21 2011
How Much Does an Accurate Location Matter When Watching TV?
Unlike other formats, the sitcom allows us to suspend disbelief because we know this is a set, we know there’s a reason we’ve never actually seen a New York street in Friends, or the fourth wall of an apartment in any show. And we’re okay with that.
Friday, January 14 2011
Gotta Be ‘In Treatment’
Loss is a necessary part of life, sure, but must it be a necessary part of TV?
Friday, July 9 2010
Brava, Bravo!
Those Bravo executives are tricksters, fooling me into believing familiarity breeds contentment, not contempt. I'm totally hooked.
Friday, December 11 2009
Precious and Lee Daniels: State of the Race
In adapting author Sapphire's difficult novel for the screen, director Lee Daniels is helping change the way spectators view African American women by deploying stereotypes and then exploding them.
Thursday, July 30 2009
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurly Brown by Jennifer Scanlon
Scanlon effectively argues that Helen Gurley Brown deserves mention in the same breath as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan as a pioneering feminist.
Wednesday, March 4 2009
‘Sex and the City,’ but which city? Russian TV networks copy shows from U.S.
Thursday, January 15 2009
OMG - The 20 Worst Films of 2008
There's bad, and then there's 2008 level bad. You know this list is looking down into a deep dark bottomless pit of cinematic despair when Mike Myers' shameful Love Guru didn't even make the Top 20!
Tuesday, January 13 2009
Celulloid Culpability - Top 10 Film Guilty Pleasures of 2008
Like comedy or music, one's choice in cinematic pleasure can be very personal - and very peculiar. Take this tantalizing list of shameful indulgences. You can argue over their artistic value, but their individuals rewards definitely speak to those who champion them.
