Steven Spielberg: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Steven Spielberg had already plundered his own work as much as his influences by the time he made his first sequel, Indiana Jones and the Te...

Steven Spielberg: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

More than any of the Steven Spielberg's other films, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial depends on a childlike sense of wonder. The first of t...

The Rolling Stones — Exile on Main St.

There are those who contend that Exile on Main St. , the Rolling Stones' most-lauded album (albeit only in retrospect), works better a...

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie — Director's Cut

The director's cut of John Cassavetes' The Killing of a Chinese Bookie omits the first scenes of its longer original cut, beginning...

The West Wing — Season 5

In all fairness to John Wells, the executive producer/showrunner of ER whose production company launched The West Wing , no one could have ...

Songs from the Second Floor

The first time I ever truly recognized Sweden as something more than "that place with the chocolate" -- at which point I would rem...

The Shield — Season 3

Whatever issues weakly scuffed the veneer of the otherwise sterling quality of The Shield are swiftly and thunderously obliterated in its t...

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[Note: This review has been cross-posted at FRED Entertainment, with a longer section on the specifics of the Criterion Blu-Ray release, its...