There was a sequence late in the one and only season of VEGAS that suggested what the show could have been. It wasn’t a big deal: deputy sheriff Dixon Lamb (Taylor Handley) needed a favor from the entertainment...
COPPER: Sunday 10PM on BBCAmerica A tale of two low-rated series: BBCAmerica’s two original scripted dramas COPPER and Orphan Black had comparable ratings in their first seasons. Copper garnered a higher numb...
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...
IMMORTALS: Watch It At Home – Brainless, Violent and Weirdly Spectacular There’s no question that the director Tarsem Singh has an eye. Singh started as a director of commercials and music videos...
A DANGEROUS METHOD: Watch It At Home – A Visit to Dr. Cronenberg’s Clinic Throughout his career, David Cronenberg has been fascinated by twin compulsions: the aberrant and the repressive. The for...
SHERLOCK HOLMES: GAME OF SHADOWS: Watch It At Home – Far Too Elementary We have to come to terms with the fact that an entire generation may recognize the name Sherlock Holmes not as the template ...
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...
It wasn’t so long ago that the announcement of an epic period love story starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen as war correspondent Martha Gellhorn and legendary novelist Ernest Hemingway, directed by Philip...
ANNA KARENINA – Watch It At Home – Beautiful But Overconceptualized Version of the Tolstoy Classic Joe Wright was introduced to the world with his film of Pride and Prejudice, and it seems like he’s b...
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN: Worth A Ticket – Not a Disneyland Ride Just to be clear, the new SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN bears about as much resemblance to this spring’s Mirror Mirror as The Dark ...
> One of the enduring questions of Madonna’s illustrious quarter-century career is how someone so brilliant in managing every other facet of her persona has consistently made such terrible decisions when it comes to movie...
WAR HORSE: Watch It At Home – Spielberg’s Beautiful Muzak Earlier this year, audiences were presented with Super 8, J. J. Abrams’s pastiche of Steven Spielberg’s classic sci-fi adventures f...