HBO photo: Michael Tackett I received a copy of Terminal City in the mail sometime in early August. I have to admit that after glancing at the accompanying promotional materials, I had little to no interest in viewing the ten…
The PBS series American Experience has long been known as a program that produces extensive documentaries on the people and events that have helped shape the history of America. The documentaries are fairly extensive, often taking years to complete. Not…
If you don’t know who John Oliver is, you probably should. He’s the bespectacled British comedian who serves as a regular correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, delivering his views on political issues of the day with a deadpan…
I would never say that Risky Business ranks up there with classics such as Casablanca, Bonnie and Clyde or even Rocky. However, the film that is largely credited with making Tom Cruise a star deserve a place in film history,…
Christmas specials are a dime a dozen. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, literally hundreds of movies and specials liter the television landscape to mark the yuletide season. While Halloween is observed, relatively few specials are on television to mark the occasion….
Back in the day, Burt Reynolds was The Man. Deliverance, The Longest Yard, Smokey and the Bandit and even Cannonball Run are some great movies. However, since the early to mid-eighties with the exception of his Academy Award nominated performance…
For popular series based on a group of high school kids, things usually go downhill once graduation day approaches. The example I’ll use is the popular ’90’s sitcom Beverly Hills, 90210. Producers dealt with that group’s graduation by having them…
Transformers Animated – Season One is the latest in a long line of animated Transformers cartoon, following the disappointment that was Transformers Cybertron. Taking its cues from the Michael Bay movie (The AllSpark, Megatron crash-landed on Earth, big explosions, lots…
David Simon, an author and former police reporter, created one of the finest television series I’ve had the pleasure to watch in The Wire. Simon has said that he originally set out to create a police drama loosely based on…
It’s truly amazing that South Park is currently in its twelfth season on Comedy Central. As a person who has watched countless hours of television and reviewed many of them here, I have written about long-running shows like Cheers and…