Tuesday, March 4 2008
New Amsterdam
On its surface, New Amsterdam is yet another show featuring a detective with a gimmick.
Wednesday, November 28 2007
The Namesake
Whatever else you get out of this movie -- a give-take equation that depends largely on your willingness to follow Nair’s lead -- it’s worth watching for Tabu’s superlative turn alone, which would earn her an Oscar if there were any justice in the First World.
Thursday, March 22 2007
Unbridled with Life: Interview with Mira Nair
With The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiri's popular novel, Mira Nair has found an ideal subject -- a family full of complex characters who spend their lives traversing traditions and expectations.
Monday, March 12 2007
The Namesake (2006)
Attentive to surfaces as well as nuances, Mira Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, The Namesake, is about legacies and responsibilities, ambitions and dislocations.
Tuesday, May 24 2005
The Lone Gunmen - The Complete Series
Being a network TV show and therefore bound by certain attractiveness requirements, The Lone Gunmen couldn't just follow the nerds.
Thursday, May 19 2005
William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice (2004)
Pacino contains Shylock's temper as reaction, looking simultaneously vile and vulnerable, hardly a simple balance.
Monday, August 9 2004
Hidalgo (2004)
'Being out in the middle of the Arabian desert,' says Mortensen, 'you could easily imagine what it must have been like.'"
Sunday, January 1 1995
The Lone Gunmen
Unlike Federal Agent Fox Mulder, these guys, sitting penniless in a warehouse laden with powerful computers and espionage equipment, are true subversives.
