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Tuesday, December 2 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Marijuana Nation is interested in what makes pot so "desired by so many."
Monday, December 1 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Dirty Driving: Thundercars in Indiana, a subtle, provocative documentary that premiered last month on HBO, observes the complicated relationship between racers and the car industry.
Tuesday, November 25 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
The television show that propels, shapes, and delivers Hugo Chávez remains odd and provocative.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Science, in a previous version of the United States, was part of daily, popular culture, a subject and career considered respectable, even admirable.
Monday, November 24 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
The film contrasts remarkable footage of the Fuhrer leading tours of museums with images of the devastation his troops wrought.
Friday, November 21 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
In Africa, where children are forced to soldier, Jack realizes, every day is full of terror -- not just the 24-hour spates he's used to confronting.
Thursday, November 20 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Alternately disconcerting and trainwreck-fascinating, 50 Cent's entry into reality programming is a mix of The Apprentice and ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show.
Wednesday, November 19 2008
By Todd R. Ramlow
The front page of HYTV lays out a series of linked pages for "programs" that spoof recent high-profile/major network reality fare. It's a rather clever conceit.
Tuesday, November 18 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
March Point concentrates on the boys' way out, that is, the movie as a way to tell their story.
Thursday, November 13 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
Lioness, Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers' understated, affecting documentary on women in combat in Iraq, shows how they operate in a "grey zone," not quite legal, but following orders.
Tuesday, November 11 2008
By Cynthia Fuchs
In making "people like Tomas" visible, Body of War makes its most effective argument: wars cost more than we can know.
By Cynthia Fuchs
Of the many historic changes signaled by Barack Obama's election, the defeat of divide-and-conquer politicking is among the most profound -- even if this demise is temporary.
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Friday, October 3 2008
By Susan Burris
Keith Olbermann has transformed news into entertainment. Countdown viewers no longer expect the facts; they expect to laugh and to think. Thank goodness.
Friday, September 26 2008
By Quentin B. Huff
The nihilistic, morally blurred world of The Shield reflects the inner workings of its characters.
Friday, August 29 2008
By Michael Barrett
The aliens carry silver dollars with lights which function both as cell phones and as gadgets that can make anyone drop dead from an instantly diagnosable "brain hemorrhage".
Tuesday, November 18 2008
By Quentin B. Huff
Although "hip-hop" means different things to different people, everyone seems to be confident that they know what "it" is. Through this subjective lens, there is also a unique brand of investment and ownership in the meaning of "hip-hop".
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Tuesday, November 11 2008
By Meta Wagner
Even though the presidential and vice-presidential candidates didn't win the posts they were gunning for, Americans have a lot of women winners, this election.
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Tuesday, December 2 2008
By Jennifer Kelly
TV’s first and most ambitious space opera closes out its original run with brave, ham-handed, unintentionally hilarious philosophizing on race, gender, truth and beauty…beam me up, Scotty.
By Evan Sawdey
This stands more as a giddy popcorn thriller than an entertaining philosophical meditation on existence -- which, as it turns out, proves to be rather fitting.
Monday, December 1 2008
By Evan Sawdey
There are many moral qualms left open at the end of Trial, but the comical, fantastic, and dangerous journey has rarely been so satisfying.
Wednesday, November 26 2008
By Jesse Hassenger
The Python legacy is like the Python treatment of death: vast, ridiculous, constant.
Tuesday, November 25 2008
By Emma Simmonds
The petit Belgian brainbox Hercule Poirot, master sleuth of Agatha Christie’s sophisticated and ingeniously plotted whodunit novels, is in a league of his own.
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