With Disney’s recent release of the two-volume, four-movie Spike Lee Joint Collection, three additional films from the prolific, occasionally controversial, director Spike Lee. Vol. 1 features the well written and performed, character study 25th Hour (2002) and the gripping He…
Solid ratings and a handful of Emmy nominations—including a win for Outstanding Drama Series—undoubtedly had the writer’s and producers of LA. Law going into the series’ sophomore season on a high. Yet, despite the success, the show was still in…
Since Lost closed up shop back in May of 2010, ABC has worked hard to find something to replace it. While few shows could ever hope to match the buzz that Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and his fellow survivors did,…
Very simple, yet undeniably charming, Ernest and Celestine is the story of two animals that are supposed to be enemies being friends. Based on a Belgian series of books by Gabrielle Vincent, the film opened in Europe at the end…
Wes Anderson is rarely accused of being boring or dull. The dollhouse aesthetic, hypersytilization, and droll humor are uniquely Anderson. You either get it, or you don’t; critics be damned. Anderson’s films often have an aura of timelessness about them,…
Largely known for his horror and sexploitation films throughout the 1970’s, British director Pete Walker ended the decade with Home Before Midnight, a surprisingly serious, yet still controversial film. As if not to disappoint fans of his work, Walker does…
Though a spin-off of The Closer (2005-12) Major Crimes, given that it has much the same cast, feels much more like a continuation of its sister show, than a new concept. As a fan of both, I suspect that’s just…
By the time A Hard Day’s Night was released in September of 1964, The Beatles had already been seen by over 70 million people on The Ed Sullivan Show. The four lads from Liverpool had become a phenomenon. To many…
Based on the Rizzoli and Isles series of novels by Tess Gerritsen, and developed by Janet Tamaro (a writer on Bones, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lost, etc.) the series of the same name centers on best friends Boston…
The Ringer is a comedy about a man who pretends to be mentally disabled in order to enter the Special Olympics. Executive Produced by the Farrelly Brothers, purveyors of bad taste, the guys who gave us the disturbing, yet hilarious…