This coming Sunday (Sept. 22), lovable star of the stage and screen Neil Patrick Harris will host the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards (you can watch them on CBS starting at 8pm ET). While the ceremony itself is sure to be a star-studded blast, half the f …Read more
Jia Zhang-ke’s “A Touch of Sin” might come as a surprise for those enamoured with the director’s oft-meditative, deeply melancholy observations of modern China. In films like “Still Life” and “24 City” he showed the savage path of capitalism and how …Read more
It’s become custom to sneer at anything actor/director/writer James Franco does because he seems obsessed with doing it all (he’s also a performance artist/philosopher/phd student extraordinaire/queer theorist/satirist among others). His bold perform …Read more
FOX Mondays @ 9pm ET What’s it about? In this modern-day twist on Washington Irving’s classic, Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers. Rev …Read more
Many of the greatest television shows ever aired have taken place in New York City’s five boroughs, spanning over half a century of television history and including both sitcoms and dramas. We could list 100 such shows without much difficulty, but w …Read more
Yesterday we delved into the most promising new dramas for Fall 2013. Today, it’s comedy’s turn! The 2012-2013 season saw 13 new comedies premiere on the Big Five networks in the fall/spring. Of those, only a pathetic 2 will be returning this fall …Read more
Fall is finally here, which means it’s time for the networks to start unveiling their new shows for the 2013-2014 TV season. There are 28 shows premiering on the Big Five networks this fall, plus a few on cable, with even more coming in the spring. …Read more
It’s hard to remember that intimacy is often neck in neck with shutting down. When people open up with each other, we’re like fish, just as ready to flip above the surface of the water as we are to dive back down beneath it, into the deep where other …Read more
“The Family” is a film created by and starring two men who have both lost their way. Writer/director Luc Besson is most famous for his assassin thrillers “La Femma Nikita” and “Léon: The Professional”, as well as his beloved sci-fi film “The Fifth E …Read more
Director James Wan has had quite a summer. His film “The Conjuring”, which opened in July, was a smash hit, doubling the $20 million budget in its opening weekend alone. It was summer’s dark horse, ending up as the 10th highest-grossing movie of th …Read more
