Terminator

‘Sarah Connor Chronicles’ blogging: “Queen’s Gambit”

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(previous: “Heavy Metal”) Poor Andy! He rebuilt his chess computer, the Turk, was all excited about maybe winning that chess tournament (First prize: a military contract! Robot apocalypse, here we come!), and then he lost. Aww. And then he gets shot and the Turk gets AI-napped. Maybe if Sarah had killed him when she had … more…

‘Sarah Connor Chronicles’ blogging: “Heavy Metal”

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(previous: “The Turk”) Shows like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles have gotta be a producer’s dream, and an actor’s nightmare. Oh, you don’t like the way you’re being treated on the set, Actor Boy? Not getting enough lines? Asking for more money? Well, hey, look: We’ll just strip your Terminator character down to his metal … more…

‘Sarah Connor Chronicles’ blogging: “The Turk”

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(previous: “Pilot”/“Gnothi Seauton”) I think I officially fell in love with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles with this episode, “The Turk.” First, a quick plot recap (a more complete one is available at Fox’s official site for the show), and then I’ll tell you why I’m loving this. Sarah, John, and their nice-Terminator bodyguard Cameron … more…

will ‘Sarah Connor Chronicles’ rock like we hope?

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When last we saw John Connor, savior of humanity, in the totally kick-ass Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, he was an adult, his mother had been dead for years, and he’d just hunkered down for a long war with the machines after Skynet launched all of humanity’s nuclear weapons at, well, humanity itself. Things … more…

No Country for Old Men (review)

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Here’s the thing about Joel and Ethan Coen: they can make anything, absolutely anything, intensely profound and deeply weird — and weirdly deep — and cruelly magnificent all at the same time.