Wednesday, August 18 2010

Your Virtual Fall TV Preview: Wednesdays

By Jessy Krupa

If you want to know what's new on primetime TV this fall, stop right here.

Thursday, April 22 2010

Armored

By Michael Antman

Two armored cars are robbed of $42 million by a batch of grimy characters, including Matt Dillon, who looks like a snake who’s been repeatedly beaten with a burnt stick.

Tuesday, February 12 2008

Jericho

By Cynthia Fuchs

While it's not exactly subtle to posit a post-apocalyptic U.S. as the equivalent of Iraq, it does lay out a new grid for Jericho.

Thursday, November 1 2007

Jericho: The First Season

By Jeremy Estes

When Jericho works it is a frightening portrait of what could happen if, “the terrorists’ greatest dream” comes true and they get their hands on nuclear weapons.

Wednesday, September 20 2006

Jericho

By Cynthia Fuchs

The citizens of Jericho want Jake to save them. Even in their cynicism, they seek a very old-fashioned solution.

Thursday, July 7 2005

Into the West

By Lesley Smith

Into the West is honest about the role of women, both Caucasian and Native American.

Tuesday, January 28 2003

Miracles

By Cynthia Fuchs

Skeet Ulrich brings to Miracles a combination of weary intensity and ethereal pretty-boy beauty.

Sunday, January 1 1995

Ride with the Devil (1999)

By Todd R. Ramlow

Ride with the Devil is essentially two films in one. The first is a story of loyalty - to family, community, and nation - tested in the social and political upheavals of civil war. The second is a story of male bonding and love in a homosocial order, the negotiation of male-male desire, and male domestication, all triangulated and enabled through the body of a woman.

Ride with the Devil (1999)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Ride With the Devil dares to bring yet another version. Directed by Ang Lee and written by Lee and his usual collaborator James Schamus (who adapted Daniel Woodrell's novel Woe to Live On, a novel inspired, says the author, by today's warfare in the Balkans), the film is rather surprising, and not only because it stars Jewel as a Southern widow. Telling stories that don't usually get told, Ride With the Devil focuses on some of the War's more disgraceful and outrageous aspects, both personal and public.