Thursday, October 11 2007
Part 4 - Feasts from the Fringe
Cable created supply where there was little or no demand. Out of the myriad of subject specific programming, a few gemstones managed to shine.
Thursday, January 11 2007
Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006
From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.
Wednesday, October 13 2004
Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Season 5
It frequently expanded cop-show boundaries, occasionally gave in to suits in search or ratings, and most often, surprised fans and detractors alike.
Monday, July 26 2004
Homicide Life on the Street: The Complete Season 4
Unlike most TV fare, especially cop shows, Homicide concerns itself with details and asides that don't always come together into thematic wholes.
Monday, March 22 2004
Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Third Season
Homicide's third season focuses increasingly on tensions among the detectives, as they endure increasingly personal devastations, over more linear storylines and more sensational murder mysteries.
Monday, March 15 2004
Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
Homicide lays out an utterly compelling and occasionally oblique anti-cop-show premise.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Across 110th Street (1972/2001)
What distinguishes Across 110th Street's bloodletting from that in other Hollywood films of the time is its unsparing inescapability and its matter-of-factness -- these qualities give the work its moral charge.
