Brooklyn’s Finest (review)
Wails with a quiet, desperate urgency amidst the loud brashness that it wears like, well, a badge…
Law and Order
‘Caprica’ blogging: “Gravedancing”
Lots of spoilers! assumes you’ve seen the episode!
the other ‘Sherlock Holmes’ movie, sex with the Na’vi, more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
question of the day: Is America ready for ‘Doctor Who’?
Scott Brown at Wired magazine recently came to the defense of Doctor Who, explaining why it’s so essential these days, and why it stands out: There’s a fix I just don’t get from mainstream American science fiction, perhaps because of its grinding obsession with the imperialistic (and its depressive sibling, the dystopic), not to mention … more…
Law Abiding Citizen (review)
It had me at *kaboom,* this thorny moral conundrum of a film, and then it lost me when it threw out all the tricksy pointedness in favor of thoughtless, counterproductive badassery.
Obsessed (review)
I cannot tell you how ineptly hilarious this ‘thriller’ is, from its weirdly retro vibe — as if the feminism of the 1970s, 80s, 90s and 2000s had not come between manhunting women and the poor saps they prey on — to its outrageous telegraphing of its “big’ finale.
trailer break: ‘Every Little Step’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, man, those two girls who are best friends? I bet one gets into the show, and one doesn’t. And then the loser stalks and murders the other one, and then Lenny Briscoe and Rey Curtis have to come in and investigate, and Lenny’s got some snarky … more…
question of the day: What is the enduring appeal of the ‘Law and Order’ franchise?
This suggestion for a QOTD came in from reader Patrick before I posted yesterday’s trailer for Law and Order: UK. But that coincidence only reinforces the necessity of the question itself. The question: What is the enduring appeal of the Law and Order franchise? I think it’s an especially interesting question to ask because L&O … more…
The International (review)
Corruption! High finance! Political murder! Clive Owen!
M Squad: The Complete Series (review)
I kept expecting to hear, with every episode of *M Squad* I watched, the voiceover guy saying, “*M Squad*! In Color!” over the opening credits.
