‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 1
DCI Sam Tyler has an accident in 2005, and wakes up in 1973. Has he fallen down a rabbit hole, or is he following the Yellow Brick Road?
DCI Sam Tyler has an accident in 2005, and wakes up in 1973. Has he fallen down a rabbit hole, or is he following the Yellow Brick Road?

My mind is blown. It is. Just not quite as blown as I was expecting it to be.
Better than *Toy Story 3.* Really.
See it if you love movies with compelling characters doing fascinating things and overcoming tremendous obstacles to get to an immensely satisfying end. You know: the things that movies are supposed to do, but rarely seem to manage.
Completely insane, totally preposterous, and sort of wonderful, in a junk food kind of way.
Michael Caine as Dirty Harry? Well, not quite…
David Tennant’s *Hamlet* comes to DVD in a superb hybrid of theater and film…
Clearly, Dave Lizewski has never read *Watchmen,* or seen the movie…
That Carell and Fey manage to maintain their gosh-darn likeability is the most surprising thing about this otherwise aggressively mediocre flick.
How a does a timid boy become a violent gangster? Like this.