The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries: Season One (review)

“The Mystery of Pirate Cove.” “The Secret of the Jade Kwan Yin.” “The Flickering Torch Mystery.” “The Secret of the Whispering Walls.” Oh my god, oh my god, ohmygod! The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew helped make me the nerd that I am today — not just the books, though I had a big long … more…

Donkey Skin (review)

It’s not really appropriate for kids, this French fairy tale — the subtitles will try their patience — but grownups enchanted by Disney’s Beauty & the Beast (and The Princess Bride) will delight in it. Disney’s animated musical fantasy owes a lot, in fact, to this live-action one: director Jacques Demy gave a classic story … more…

The Brak Show: Volume 1 (review)

This exercise in stream-of-geeky-consciousness insanity and slightly disreputable animation manipulation defies explanation — you’re either in the cult, or you’re not — but here goes nothing anyway. Once upon a time, in the 1960s, there was a Hanna Barbera cartoon called Space Ghost and Dino Boy, which was quite bad and which hardly anyone remembers … more…

Sin City (review)

Man, they weren’t kidding when they called it Sin City. This is a vile place, oozing corruption from every orifice, where integrity and honesty in the institutions of authority have long since fled. This is a place where a man or a woman wielding a gun or a knife (and they all do) makes no threats — he or she just proceeds instantly to inflicting the worst. This is a place where there is no time for threats: you hesitate, you die. This is no place you want to be.

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These reviews have moved — sorry for the inconvenience. Beauty Shop The Brak Show: Volume 1 Donkey Skin Doogie Howser, M.D.: Season One The Flame Trees of Thika The Greatest American Hero: Season One The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries: Season One Highway to Heaven: Season One It’s All Gone Pete Tong The Jamie Foxx … more…