Friday, January 23 2009
The Lodger
David Ondaatje's movie offers up a series of potentially interesting meta-texts, concerning the significantly named Manning's obsession and aggression, his professional identity and, of course, masculinity.
Friday, August 29 2008
What We Do Is Secret
The faux interview preserves Darby Crash's self-image, the reenactment in What We Do Is Secret remembers the preservation.
Monday, December 5 2005
ER / The West Wing
The West Wing's chief relationships have been tested and compromised, turning Sorkin's noble, fast-walking liberals into more than the sum of their quips and ideals.
Thursday, October 13 2005
Once and Again: The Complete Second Season
Some of us want to see messy, contradictory lives on screen. We find escape enough in knowing that, as much as the problems feel familiar, they are not precisely our own.
Monday, December 15 2003
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Allan Quartermain is complex, to be sure, resenting imperialism even as he embodies it.
Thursday, July 10 2003
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
'You're probably too young to remember,' Allan Quartermain (Sean Connery) tells the messenger, 'but the Empire is always in some kind of peril.'"
