Reviews

With Burton at the helm, I was hoping for a ramped-up, psychedelic trip sprinkled with some familiar characters. Yet, in the theater with my plastic glasses on, I was so underwhelmed. This bizarre retelling and merging of texts is too hard-to-follow and Read More

Whoa. This episode right here somehow got me to proclaim it as my favorite of the entire series by the time the credits rolled. And it started with the only character I've ever actually wanted the show to get rid of! I wasn't prepared for the amount of Read More

This production of Alice in Wonderland, directed by Jonathan Miller, is dark, surreal, and frequently haunting. Alice doesn't smile and doesn't seem curious about anything — just critical, and even bored. But the DVD is well worth the cost just for the Read More

This is basically a great installment. There's a plot twist. There's suspense. There's a cliffhanger. I don't like the cliffhanger part, since I now have to find wait weeks to find out what happens next. But it's good storytelling, that's for sure. Read More

OK Go's Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky is an interesting collection of music that probably will appeal to virtually any listener. Some die-hard OK Go fans may view the different style of their latest work as detrimental to their sound, while many Read More

Deadly Premonition is a brilliantly made spoof of the survival horror genre. Admittedly, I'm not sure whether the spoof is intentional, but it works so perfectly that I hate to imagine that the game is supposed to be taken seriously. Read More

Colleges and universities all over the world are suffering with the enforced demise of the Jack Bauer Dammit Drinking Game. Students are just sitting around, beer bottles in hand, waiting, waiting, waiting. What's up with Jack this season? Have TPTB Read More

For those of you who enjoy an alternative visual style, excessively gory action and storylines that unravel without firm resolution or direction, Superjail is sure to become a late-night-viewing staple, especially now that Season One is available on DVD. Read More

A crazy alien conspiracy theorist kidnaps one of the Kandorians along with Lois, and Clark and Zod both attempt rescue missions to varying degrees of success, with some extra results they probably didn't expect. Read More

To deal with his recent divorce, Ben Mercer suddenly takes a job at a dig site in Sparta. All along the reader can feel that on the periphery of the story, something deeper is going on, but Ben is so intent on fitting in that he doesn't see it. I like Read More

Remember how one of my complaints regarding Smallville is that it is hit or miss? Some installments are awesome, while others are quite bad. This time, the producers outdid themselves. They hit the highs and lows of Smallville in the same episode! Do I Read More

A mostly Jack-centric episode to please slobbering fans like me and lull us into not caring how stupid Dana is. Well, almost. Read More