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TV
Tuesday, July 7 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
In Life. Support. Music., Jason Crigler's recovery is surely inspiring -- especially as it is attributable to the family's concerted efforts.
Friday, July 3 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
In Estilo Hip Hop, Guerrillero explains, "Rap has become my political weapon of choice."
Tuesday, June 30 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
Allusive and abstract, Beyond Hatred works something like a puzzle, examining the murder of a young gay man while never showing him or his killers.
Monday, June 29 2009
By Michael Abernethy
HBO's new series might easily be titled Hung: Better Living through Prostitution.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Liz Garbus' documentary makes its case for free speech methodically, with examples ranging from notorious to obscure, that show the censoring of communications that lean both left and right.
Wednesday, June 24 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
The sex change business is legal and highly regulated in Iran. As revealed in Be Like Others, it is also full of obvious, painful contradictions.
Tuesday, June 23 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
A rapper, Muslim, and Puerto Rican, Hamza Pérez "sounds like America's worst nightmare." But in New Muslim Cool, he looks more like a best hope.
Monday, June 22 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
Iran and the West looks back at the past three decades of tension and eruption.
Wednesday, June 17 2009
By Cynthia Fuchs
The Queen and I shows Nahid Persson Sarvestani's investment in documenting Farah's present life, as well as her own childhood interest in the royal family.
Tuesday, June 16 2009
By Leigh H. Edwards
HawthoRNe offers a bracing combination of fast-paced professional crises and personal tensions.
By Leigh H. Edwards
Saving Grace looks close to becoming Twilight for the 40something set.
By Cynthia Fuchs
In A Decade Behind Bars: A Return to the Farm, inmates are moved when they watch the inauguration of Barack Obama on television.
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Friday, May 22 2009
By Kit MacFarlane
What's a Kirk without Earth-poet Shakespeare? Has the awkward Star Trek quotation spat its last breath? Trek's lost legacy of literary pretension.
Thursday, April 23 2009
By Adam Kotsko
House both fulfills and questions its viewers’ fantasies of a medical utopia in which doctors are brilliant, attentive, and affordable
Friday, April 17 2009
By Cyrus Fard
More than a decade after its debut, Neon Genesis Evangelion continues to reign as an cultural icon in Japan. Understanding how it made such a lasting impact gives us a window onto Japanese social history and fandom.
Thursday, June 18 2009
By Kit MacFarlane
With attempted justifications of military torture on our minds, Retro Remote heads back to the '50s TV Western to find a surprisingly tough moral stance on the U.S. military's destruction of human dignity and dehumanisation of 'enemy combatants'.
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Monday, June 8 2009
By Monte Williams
Still cute, funny and entertaining, Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears holds up remarkably well on every level.
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Wednesday, July 8 2009
By Thomas Britt
Long-delayed season 7 includes a fiery blend of political crises, family dramas and exhilarating action sequences.
Thursday, June 25 2009
By Dan Heaton
While the filmmaker supports Frazier's viewpoint, he also depicts a frightening, unhealthy side of his personality.
Wednesday, June 24 2009
By Dan Heaton
The vintage BBC material should jump off the screen and inspire us, but the footage just sits there.
Monday, June 22 2009
By Andrew Winistorfer
This show is like a bad habit that just won't go away.
Friday, June 19 2009
By Lara Killian
Delivered in a box as red as the fire hydrant colored leather getup Eddie Murphy paraded around in 25 years ago, the 25th anniversary edition of the classic stand-up tour “Delirious” has arrived.
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