The vast majority of movies are simply entertainment. That’s no knock on them; good, quality storytelling can nourish and provoke us in very real ways. And even ‘bad’ entertainment can still be fun as hell. …
Over and over, the one thing you hear about The One I Love is that it’s one of those movies where the less you know going in, the better. The trick with movies like that…
Sick of my Newsroom posts yet? Well, this will be the last one. The Newsroom is over. It’s going to take some time to come to grips with the series as a whole; for right…
Well, that happened. After all the praise I heaped on the show, and after the first few episodes of Season 3 were quite good (Episode 2, “Run,” was a brilliant piece of television), as The…
I’m loving The Newsroom these days. The third and final season is six episodes long, and we’ve got two to go, and so far, this is television at its best. Will’s glorious self-immolation is sad…
Classic movies are classics for a reason. They’re widely recognized as important movies, movies of quality, movies that defined a moment in time. You can quibble about ranking, you can debate the way they stand…
South Park has managed to stay relevant and fresh, for the most part, for almost 20 years. It’s done that using a combination of being willing to re-invent itself (gradually morphing from pure sophomoric comedy…
One of the lessons I took away from watching In A World…, the directorial debut of the supremely talented Lake Bell, is that stakes can be anything, as long as they matter. Hell, there was…
The internet’s been a phenomenal tool for a lot of things, some good, some bad. One of the things it’s been good for is distribution of original writing. 30 years ago, if you’d written something,…