Firefly: The Second Seven Episodes (review)
Thoughts on the *Firefly* episodes ‘Out of Gas,’ ‘Ariel,’ ‘War Stories,’ ‘Trash,’ ‘The Message,’ ‘Heart of Gold,’ and ‘Objects in Space.’
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Serenity (review)
Damn you, Joss Whedon, you *hwoon dahn*! Damn you and your honesty and integrity and unwillingness to succumb to Hollywood bullshit and–
Firefly: The First Seven Episodes (review)
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Firefly (review)
My first exposure to *Firefly* came when I was assigned to review the DVD box set for Video Librarian, for which I review a lot of TV on DVD. Now, I don’t sit through 13 or 18 or 22 hours worth of *Tru Calling* or *Silk Stalkings* or whatever in order to write a 200-word overview — it’s not possible, and it’s not necessary, and even just a taste of most series is enough to prove that much of what appears on television is worse than instantly forgettable: it doesn’t even come close to distracting you while you’re actually watching it.
Flightplan (review)
There’s a girl! There’s a girl on the wing of the movie!
The Muppet Show: Season One (review)
There may be no greater touchstone among the childhood entertainments of Generation X than The Muppet Show, which introduced a whole new crop of kiddies to the comedic possibilities of vaudeville and “variety” while celebrating a gang of wildly different creatures who didn’t merely work together but created their own unique family dynamic. Our parents … more…
Lost: The Complete First Season (review)
The opening moments of the first episode of Lost are some of the most intense commercial television has ever seen: images of a catastrophic failure of technology that leaves its victims dazed, bewildered, and at the mercy of elements both natural and manmade. And as these 24 episodes unfold, hints that the hand of man … more…
Lord of War movie review: sympathy for the devil?
Funny? Sure, *Lord of War* is funny. Funny like how you’re not sure whether that headline is from Reuters or The Onion. Funny like how Jon Stewart has to insist that what he’s about to tell you really happened and is not the invention of his team of political wagsters. Satirical? Sure, *Lord of War* is satirical. Satirical like the front page of *The New York Times* is satirical. Satirical like how, at the end of Andrew Niccol’s black comedy about a relatively small-time freelance arms dealer, he tells us that the biggest arms dealers in the world are the nations that are the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
Thumbsucker (review)
Yup, this is the movie about the 17-year-old kid who still sucks his thumb. But don’t get too excited: there isn’t a lot of hot thumbsucking action or anything like that. Instead there’s a lot of adolescent angst, and the fact that it’s so achingly poignant and pointedly hilarious even if you’re way beyond high school makes me suspect that none of us ever really outgrow that teenage insecurity.
The Man with the Screaming Brain (review)
Am I gonna have to take Bruce Campbell off the Perpetual Boyfriend list? It would be a very sad day indeed on which I was forced to take such desperate measures, but my patience does have limits, even with the man who gave us Ash and Brisco County Jr. and Roland the Intrepid Explorer and Smitty the *Argus* reporter and Autolycus the king of thieves and…
