South Park — Seasons 3 and 4

After two seasons of highly entertaining yet clearly unstable programming, South Park hit upon a sort of stride starting with its third sea...

The Soloist

After months in mysterious limbo, Joe Wright’s latest opus, “The Soloist,” finally hits theaters four months after it could win the awards f...

South Park — Season 2

Having never stuck with South Park for a full season, I finally decided to start from the beginning to get the full experience before Trey ...

South Park — Season 1

As The Simpsons continues to descend into mediocrity stemming from outliving any fresh plots, and with Family Guy just plain sucking, Sout...

The Purple Rose of Cairo

A great deal of the reason that I love Woody Allen is that the man loves to feel down. Hell, how many other directors can so routinely refus...

The Wire — Season 3

[WARNING- Contains spoilers for previous seasons.] Oh, The Wire , how I've missed thee. When I last left the streets of Baltimore, every...

Crank: High Voltage

Too good (read: absolutely terrible) for your f**king stars Look, I like cerebral dramas and highbrow satire as much as the next hipster, bu...

State of Play

State of Play comes with a plot so tailor-made for adoration from journalists that cynics everywhere will dismiss it as a cheap ploy to dru...

Observe and Report

Jody Hill might have a long career as the anti-Apatow if he can just cut down on the insufferable drag in his movies. Indeed, as much as Apa...

My 30 Favorite Mr. Show Sketches (15-1)

15. Phone Sex (Season 4, Episode 3) Homoeroticism played a big role in Mr. Show , and when a man who wins some phone sex off a friend's...

My 30 Favorite Mr. Show Sketches (30-16)

Saturday Night Live 's stance as the United State's defining sketch comedy show is indisputable, but its long run and ever-shifting ...

In the Mood For Love

True visual splendor is surprisingly rare in the new millennium. Oh, high-resolution digital cameras and video have progressed to the point ...

Sicko

I'm sure any real film expert who stumbles upon this blog will have a coronary just reading these reviews with the knowledge that I aspi...

Adventureland

Is there anything in this world duller than a summer job? At least the tedium of full-time employment brings with it the ever-present fear o...