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TV
Tuesday, February 9 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
Preternaturally patient with all the needy, flustered, and demanding adults around her, Priscilla Diaz is also childish (righteously) and astute (luckily).
Monday, February 8 2010
By Lesley Smith
Patty’s actions, rather like those of Jack Bauer in 24, dramatize the fundamental contradiction at the heart of any democratic society.
By Cynthia Fuchs
A couple of interviews in The Black List: Volume Three make strong and important points about the ways race inflects daily life in America.
Friday, February 5 2010
By Daynah Burnett
Temple Grandin's frequently standard plotting can't repress Claire Danes' fearless, captivating, and intimate performance.
Wednesday, February 3 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
The documentary shows that Melville Herskovits' limits and insights were, like those he perceived in others, a function of his time and place.
Tuesday, February 2 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
The program doesn't attend to the expansion and ambiguity imagined by the very title, "digital nation".
Wednesday, January 27 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
What Johnny Weir does, again and again, is deliver remarkable performances.
Monday, January 25 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
For 17-year-old Whitney, used to "holding her tongue," sharing her story is difficult. She's survived up to now by keeping it to herself.
By Daynah Burnett
La La Land is not nearly as smart or edgy as Da Ali G Show, as it offers none of the social commentary, cultural criticism or broad pathos that Borat or Bruno mustered, even in their lowest low-brow moments.
Sunday, January 24 2010
By Renee Scolaro Mora
And this is the trouble with Emma Woodhouse, underscored in this Masterpiece Theatre edition: she is class conscious where it affects her, but is largely oblivious as to how class works.
Thursday, January 21 2010
By Michael Abernethy
For those who wonder about what's in their hamburger or how egg rolls are mass produced, the History Channel presents Food Tech.
Tuesday, January 19 2010
By Cynthia Fuchs
Copyright Criminals asks a fundamental question: who possesses ideas, representations, and repetitions?
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Tuesday, February 9 2010
By Ian Chant
“You’ve created a fetish around watching the commercials, and not going to the kitchen or the bathroom during the commercials. That’s a pretty amazing thing to have done,” says Turow. But is the phenomenon sustainable?
Tuesday, February 2 2010
By Terry Sawyer
The Grammys seem like a festering boomer leftover, far removed from the present where major labels live in post-apocalyptic decline.
Monday, February 1 2010
By Evan Sawdey
Overblown set pieces, fiery performances, and category wins that no one saw coming -- yes, this year, the Grammy Awards decided to be interesting.
Thursday, February 4 2010
By Kit MacFarlane
'Radio Bart' draws on 70 years of media history to position itself in that uneasy mix of altruism, morbid curiosity and callous self-interest.
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Thursday, January 28 2010
By Aaron Sagers
Either by coincidence or because I just happened to watch these all on a cold day when I needed a little warmth, the magic of the human condition emerged as a trend in these new DVD releases.
(more PopPundit)
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Monday, February 8 2010
By Evan Sawdey
As David Tennant's tenure as the Tenth Doctor comes to a close, we can't help but wish that his last adventure was a bit more substantial than this.
Thursday, February 4 2010
By Evan Sawdey
As the tenth Doctor's tale winds down to its end, The Waters of Mars show that the greatest horror of all exists in the Time Lord himself.
Tuesday, February 2 2010
By Ian Chant
The minds behind Robot Chicken have discovered a formula that works: it's possible to be pretty damned funny in ten seconds.
Monday, February 1 2010
By Rachel Kipp
Newark’s nickname is “Brick City” and, as residents explain in the five-part Sundance Channel documentary of the same name, you’ve got to be strong to survive these New Jersey streets.
By Adrian Warren
In less respectful hands, the programme could have been a tawdry exercise in tabloid-style muckraking, but instead the filmmakers treat their subjects with a welcome deference.
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