The Sopranos — Season 1

Now that I've finished going through The Wire , I decided to move to the show that made HBO the gold standard of televised drama and the...

Cries and Whispers

Ingmar Bergman's films are primarily entropic: they unfold with such precision and bleakness that, when you watch his monochromatic fare...

Terminator Salvation

Funny as it may seem, technology has rendered the Terminator franchise irrelevant. Even as we increasingly automate our industries, the she...

Drag Me to Hell

I originally opened this review by mentioning how Drag Me to Hell is Sam Raimi's return to the horror genre after 16 years of more main...

A History of Violence

There's something deliciously ironic about David Croneneberg making a film about our collective obsession with violence. Cronenberg, who...

Freaks and Geeks

Ever since I sat down with Firefly in late 2006, I've found myself slowly working through the list of "brilliant but canceled...

The Wire — Season 5

The Wire is a series that, to be honest, never should have made it on the air. It's plodding and episodic, with no central character to...