I hate writing "bad" reviews for shows. Hate it. Don't get me wrong, I will bring out the ol' file and start sharpening the teeth; I'll strip down, dye myself blue, and strap my enemies' heads around my waist when I come across some heavily backed,
In Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie the sea defines all things; the characters, their lives, their past, and their destinies. It is the sea that convinces Chris Christopherson to abandon his young daughter to what he believes will be a better life. For in the sea's vastness
How rare a thing; a thinking man's sci-fi both stimulating and satisfying. Penned by Jerome Bixby known for such works as The Lost Missile, It, The Terror From Beyond Space, and some of the classic episodes of the original Star Trek and The Twilight Zone
Let's imagine one could take a heaping jigger of Citizen Kane, another of Blade Runner, pour in a dash of the life of Walt Disney, shake not stir, then serve it chilled with a twist of 2001. That pretty much gives you Able Edwards. Sometime in
Ana Lily Amirpour's intelligent and superbly crafted film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is definitely a world view of a rebel with a cause. * Within the very title of her entertaining social harangue masquerading as a fairy tale revised horror-flick, there lurks both
The film opens with a laconic, heart rendering simple and sincere shriving, "I'm sorry. I know that means little at this point, but I am." The voice, so familiar, so close to anyone who has ever set foot in a picture show or spent time
Americans should watch this film, especially those who pride themselves, as I, patriotic Americans. Now honestly this is not an A-Plus movie; it's more like a B or B-Minus. Based on historian and activist, Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States, it
Well if you don't know Spike Milligan you darn well should. Along with Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine, and Peter Sellers, Milligan wrote and performed in the BBC seminal radio show The Goon Show which fostered Beyond The Fringe, Cook and Moore and of course Monty
There have been three truly great social humorists in American history, Mark Twain, Will Rogers and Jon Stewart. The least known today is the guy bookended by the other two. Now I was sorta disappointed that this documentary was as old as it was (1961)
Think of a row of dominos as scenes in a film. The first domino strikes the one before it; the impact launches a second tile into a third, and so on. In the fall of a single domino you have dramas essence, in the striking
