"Louie" is back for a third season. I reviewed the start of the season yesterday, and I have some quick thoughts on the season premiere coming up just as soon as I get reading glasses...
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A quick review of tonight's "Wilfred" coming up just as soon as I give you 150 bucks and a long hug...
While the decision to air the season's first episode early and label it a "sneak preview&...
Six years after Sarah Polley's powerful directorial debut "Away From Her," she's back with another warts-and-all look at committed relationships. But unlike the couple who had been together for decades in Po...
Attitudes about TV comedy are an ever-evolving thing. For decades, the most popular, respected version of the form was done in the style of "I Love Lucy": shot on a stage in front of a live studio ...
Okay, it's official… the summer of 2012 is not what I thought it was going to be at all, and I'm enjoying the near complete sense of surprise, week after week, film after film. At the start of this week, ...
MTV's "Awkward" premiered last summer as a diamond-in-the-rough.
On every imaginable level, Lauren Iungerich's comedy was ragged around the edges and that was part of its charm. Early storylines wer...
Midway through the third episode of the new season of "Louie" — which was and continues to be one of the very best shows on television — Louis C.K. is introduced to a Spanish phrase that, loosely...
Big studios don't take many chances on small movies like "People Like Us." That's especially true in the midst of a typical summer season driven by superheroes, scientists in space and warrior princesses (bo...
Nora Ephron followed an unusual career trajectory in Hollywood, and the single greatest compliment I can pay to her on the occasion of her passing is that you can clearly identify what makes something a Nora Ephron mo...
There is one moment of pure visual magic in "The Amazing Spider-Man," perfectly staged and realized, and when the Stan Lee cameo is the best thing in your movie, something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
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