Sicko documentary review: calling the peasants to revolt
Make no mistake: *Sicko* is an explicit call for revolution, and it is a profound and horrifying one.
Month: June 2007
Big Train: Seasons One and Two (review)
Constantly surprising and endlessly inventive, this is sketch comedy at its wild best: aggressively silly, unafraid to take chances, and deliciously absurd and nonlinear…
Film School (review)
Tensions and emotions run high, but this ain’t no “reality” game show: these are talented, ambitious people whose only opponents are themselves.
hooked, kinda, on ‘Enterprise’ on Sci Fi
It’s a weird thing to be hooked on a TV show, and yet not really hooked. Like me with Star Trek: Enterprise. I’ve been obsessed with catching up with the entire series since the Sci Fi Channel started running the show from start to finish on Monday nights in four-hour blocks. The 98-episode run (it … more…
the new AFI 100: fire up yer Netflix queue
Well, I was wrong. I guessed that the new AFI 100 — which was announced over three hours of clips and celebrity gushing last night on CBS — would be substantially the same as the old AFI 100. Boy, was I wrong. Only three films hold their original positions on the list: Citizen Kane (#1), … more…
A Mighty Heart (review)
Michael Winterbottom’s powerful and provocative new film is not a detective story, not a murder mystery, though it takes that format. It is about giving us an alarming portrait of the dangerous and strange new world we’re living in that most of us sheltered Americans can’t even conceive of.
1408 (review)
Sure, this is pretty much an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone,’ but it’s a really, really *good* episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’…
The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (review)
My head wants to explode at the woman-hating hideousness of this.
The Original Nancy Drew Movie Mystery Collection (review)
There’s an undeniable gosh-darn golden-age charm to her and to these brisk and spirited adventures.
Kyle XY: The Complete First Season — Declassified (review)
Actually deals in a refreshingly frank way with the wide variety of adolescent experiences, from making mistakes about having sex to coming to terms with religious faith. Still, it’s likely to appeal only to teens…
