Wednesday, January 14 2009
The Best Television Performers of 2008
More than anything, though, I wish all those political pundits would take some time off, to rest and let their vocal cords recuperate. That truly would make for a happy new year.
Wednesday, September 24 2008
Criminal Minds: Season Four Premiere
The fourth season premiere of Criminal Minds revisits 9/11 anxieties, as Special Agent Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) stumbles dazedly around a street in lower Manhattan, having nearly been blown to smithereens by a car bomb.
Wednesday, October 31 2007
Criminal Minds
Joe Mantegna brings to Rossi a singular mournfulness and lingering rage that are not turned inward and angsty, but instead bent outward, into a mien that looks cocky but is also ready for what's unknown.
Wednesday, October 5 2005
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds confuses critical thinking with supernatural abilities.
Friday, February 25 2005
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
While Helen's story is compelling, it's subsumed by the men's antics.
Tuesday, October 15 2002
Birds of Prey
Follows neither the super-crip model of disability perception, where an individual's 'triumph' over disability is celebrated through public tokenism, nor the common perception of disability merely as an object of pity.
Sunday, January 1 1995
The Brothers (2001)
Facing his boys on the basketball court, where they go to sweat, score, and hash out their 'stuff', Terry (Shemar Moore) argues -- none too convincingly -- that his settling down is a sign of his maturity. The others are unconvinced. And so they go on to talk about it. A lot.
