Up

Only Pixar could make an animated film about a man who soars above the rain forests of South America in his own house realistic. Up follows...

The Wire — Season 4

Every season of The Wire ends with a quiet cataclysm, a massive breakdown on both sides of the law that drastically alters the direction th...

The Insider

Michael Mann deservedly earned himself a reputation as one of the preeminent action directors of the last 20 years, but that unfairly typeca...

My 20 Favorite T.V. Characters

As much as I love a select number of television series, I spend a great deal more time with films. They're easier to digest, more themat...

Fanboys

For all the controversy surrounding the release of Fanboys , the Weinsteins inadvertently made it the perfect companion piece to the source ...

Dear God No: Joss-less 'Buffy' Film in Works

Wrapping up Serenity and, on a larger scale, a multi-month retrospective of the work of my favorite T.V. auteur gave me a sense of bittersw...

Withnail and I

Playing drunk is, famously, one of the hardest things an actor can do: all too often they simply slur their speech a bit and fall down. If t...

Serenity

It's perhaps somewhat appropriate that I wrap up my 7-month Whedon binge with the film that got me into the man in the first place. I ne...