10 Oct 2008 at 6:43pm Terence Davies has spent most of his adult life on a crusade to get his films made. The grand tally? Six in 25 years. This is a miserable score for one of the most talented directors the British Film Institute has produced. Embarrassing, in fact ...
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10 Oct 2008 at 9:46am It's been two years since first word came of DC Comics' all-new "Terra" series, featuring a heroine that is definitely not the traitorous teen from Marv Wolfman and George Perez?s famed Teen Titans story "The Judas Contract," but definitely is ...
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10 Oct 2008 at 6:54am Reihan notes the real reason for working class anger right now. Although wages have stagnated for a long time, lower prices of Wal-Mart type goods, soaring housing values, cheap food, senior Medicare expansion, and easy access to consumer credit ...
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9 Oct 2008 at 1:22pm Molly Shannon and Selma Blair are two hoots worth a happy holler in NBC's "Kath & Kim," a cleverly funny sitcom debuting tonight after scoring a smash with a different cast in Australia. The show has been painlessly Americanized and might as well be ...
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8 Oct 2008 at 9:41am An American Carol is an unlikely, outrageous and just slightly off-color twist on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Re-imagined post-9/11, this wacky morality tale substitutes a celebrated documentarian for Ebenezer Scrooge, the Fourth of July for ...
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7 Oct 2008 at 7:30pm Up the Down Staircase : By the short-term political calculus of Washington, George Bush has had a banner week ?watching the military blow up an evil madman in Iraq and the special prosecutor decide not to blow up Karl Rove. With the usual exquisite ...
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7 Oct 2008 at 10:40am AT FIRST GLANCE, Seoul seems like just another sprawling metropolis: Its buildings, hastily constructed with dubious financing in the months leading up to South Korea's 1997 economic crisis, are the sort of blocky, concrete-and-glass high-rises that ...
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