The literary equivalent of Washington: Behind Closed Doors is Full Disclosure by William Safire. Each has a cracking good story, but it takes a near-frustrating amount of time to get there, moreso with Behind Closed Doors. That’s Safire and Behind…
“You are the bicycle.” – Sean Martin Michael Mann’s Collateral, courtesy of cinematographers Dion Beebe and Paul Cameron, is quite possibly the only movie to make nighttime in Los Angeles look haunting, to give it more emotion, more conflict than…
George Gently is yet another series that Acorn Media uses to make you want to watch more British television and thereby increase their profits. They’re relentless! And they never show their hand like that because of the stiff upper lip…
When considering Martin Scorsese‘s 70’s filmography, turning one of his cinematic masterpieces into a television series seems highly unlikely. 1974’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, had a few comedic moments, but was hardly tailor made for a sitcom. Nonetheless, screenwriter…
The Story of the Costume Drama moves at the speed of Netflix. In the brief few seconds it takes to put an interesting costume drama in your queue, the five-episode series has moved on to another clip, with another piece…
In Israel, the world is always falling apart. Qassam rockets bombard the town of Sderot. The radio repeats an interview with a little boy whose backyard is laden with a few of them. A solemn commentator voice claims that there’s…
It’s been a little over six years since Sony released Diff’rent Strokes: The Complete Second Season. Given the time lapse, Strokes fans were genuinely concerned that the rest of the show might never see the light of day on DVD….
You may never have heard of a spy from World War II codenamed Garbo, but the free world owes him a debt of gratitude. Though he was rebuffed by the Allies as a double agent at first, this Spanish national…
Here is a documentary that’s at times so unsettling, so frightening, that you believe it can’t possibly be true. But it is. And it’s us. Our political discourse has become so fractured and so dysfunctional that, as Ken Rudin, NPR…
Father Dowling Mysteries: The Second Season is pleasantly boring, many steps up from what boring usually is, but not by much. Tom Bosley, always well regarded for Happy Days, plays Father Frank Dowling, a great force of good in his…