It's probably appropriate that "True Blood" makes me say and do and write stupid, out-of-character things.
Like last summer, when I reviewed the fourth season premiere, I briefly convinced mys...
"Gilmore Girls" and "The West Wing" debuted a year apart from one another, and they've always been linked in my mind: Two shows with machine gun banter, two shows that at their best deftly balanced...
Greta Gerwig is exactly the kind of actress you want to see headlining a comedy. She's fresh, funny, intelligent, attractive and spontaneous. She makes every film a little more unique just by being in it, and that's d...
There's a lot of interesting stuff happening in animation today. Very little of it is happening at Dreamworks.
As companies like Pixar and visionaries like Hayao Miyazaki and Henry Selick continue to push the mediu...
Robert Pattinson really wants your respect.
Ever since he became an instant star as vampire heartthrob Edward Cullen in the "Twilight" movies, he's been scrambling to define himself as a serious actor. To...
It's been more than 50 years since the premieres of ABC's "Dr. Kildare" and "Ben Casey," two of the earliest successful hospital dramas on television. That is a very long time for any one genre, ...
The success of “American Idol” and “Glee” has created a major market for collections of cover songs that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago.
For a long time, people (i.e. me) wond...
The Beach Boys are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, but in some ways, the designation is misleading. While the initial quintet originally formed in 1961, there have been long periods—decades, actual...
JAMES BOND 007 DECLASSIFIED
File #5: "You Only Live Twice"
This series will trace the cinema history of James Bond, while also examining Ian Fleming's original novels as source material and examining...
A review of last night's "Game of Thrones" season finale coming up just as soon as I have questions for wise men with skinny arms...
"This war has just begun. It will last for years." -Melisan...
