Remarkable

24 Season 7 episodes 1-5. Sara is right -- after season one every season of 24 is essentially a remake: Bauer is the one man who can save Am...

This movie opened a long time ago to excellent reviews. I have very little to add, except to say that the reviews are right. What makes the ...

I do not really have that strong of an opinion of the first Hellboy movie -- I remember kind of liking the world that they built (Nazi Satan...

Will and Grace was a weak sitcom. Its ostensible selling point was its focus on homosexual characters. But really it was an NBC show that cr...

The weirdness of sitting in a theater and watching Crispin Glover, as a mutant monster, reciting Old English poetry -- in 3D! -- is surely w...

I blogged about Pushing Daisies last week, but I wanted to write a brief follow up -- because this week's episode, "Pigeon," w...

There has been some excitement about Pushing Daises from folks who like smart weird TV. For those that are watching it the attitude has bee...

[A second guest blogger joins us, with a review of Wes Anderson's new movie. I asked Mitch to keep it to 500 words, but now I think that...

[Apologies to my British readers who already know this. Back me up in the comments.] Of the not insignificant amount of television I was exp...

I really liked Arrested Development when it first aired, but I was a night security guard then and missed most of the first season. Then I ...

[I want to try out some mini-posts. I want to see if this is a good or a stupid idea. These will not interfere with my regular posting sched...

Let me start with some choice quotes about PotC: AWE from Nathan Lee's Village Voice review : "Long before the third, fourth, or f...

[The Commonplace Book entry will go up tomorrow. I wanted to put this out now, because something similar appeared on theonionavclub blog, an...

I have not seen the first Die Hard in years, but I remember it being one of the best -- maybe the best -- action movie ever. I seem to have...

[Less people read this blog on the weekend so I have decided to use weekend posts for more silly stuff. Feel free to let me know if you thin...

I recently saw the film Music and Lyrics , starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. Sara and I wanted something without teeth, after Children...

[I missed both of these films in the theaters, heard all the buzz around them, and just now got around to watching them. I can understand th...

Ocean's 13 is a very good movie, but not a great movie -- it is the weakest of the three films, but not by much. It has some excellent ...

Back in April of 2006 I wrote a short piece for the Oxford Student Newspaper on why Ocean's Twelve is my favorite movie. That is no long...

In free form comments, Mitch made a good point -- maybe it is unfair of me to stop running my weekly TV in Review post just because the only...