‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 4
Sam’s little-boy idealism about what it means to be a cop gets a 1973 wakeup call…
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Takers (review)
This is how you do it. More like this, please.
‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 3
A little push and a little pull is what it takes to survive 1973…
Lottery Ticket (review)
Kevin doesn’t play the lottery, because he thinks it’s ‘designed to keep poor people poor by selling them false dreams.’ So why does he buy a lottery ticket anyway?
Max Headroom: The Complete Series (review)
It’s been almost a quarter of a century since this groundbreaking series graced our screens so briefly, but my memories of it have never faded, so great was the impact it had on my nerdy young brain…
Mother (Madeo) (review)
The horror of Bong Joon-ho’s bleakly comic film begins with how it’s barely a blip in a mother’s routine when her son is accused of murdering a teenaged schoolgirl and Mom must doggedly go to work to find the real killer…
The Secret in Their Eyes (review)
This year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film is a seductive film noir, a lonely love story, a cautionary tale about taking a quest for justice too far, and more…
Holy Rollers (review)
It’s a familiar story — Nice Kid gets mixed up in Bad Things — but as first-time feature director Kevin Asch tells it, there’s extra potency to the contrast between the Nice and the Bad.
The Other Guys movie review: cops and bunglers
It’s all absurd and overblown and — most importantly — consistently so through to the end.
‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 2
Sure, the clothes look funny and there’s no cell phones, only giant cackling radios, but that’s a given. It’s all the other unexpectedly different 1973 stuff that’s so disturbing.
