As he did with his love letter to hardboiled fiction, “Hollywood Noir,” Jeff Mariotte lets his passion for bloodless British mysteries show in “Solitary Man” (December 2003) – but in a different way. He invents […]
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Cameron Crowe’s film is a great romance story with fun-to-discover mythological parables.
In this next batch of 10 issues, Season 9 becomes slightly less Buffy-centric, somewhat to its detriment, but Andrew Chambliss continues to be a sharp writer and I trust he knows where the wider narrative […]
Mamet Monday (Movie review): Campbell Scott stars as a man caught in a gripping puzzle he (and the viewer) can’t set aside until it’s solved.
Doranna Durgin crafts a more readable and entertaining “Angel” book her second time around with “Fearless” (October 2003). It has the same structure as “Impressions,” which I didn’t like as much, wherein we know what’s […]
Movie review: Shiri Appleby and Ethan Embry star in this heavy-metal horror thriller.
TV review: This miniseries is an interesting experiment. But I can’t shake the sense that John Malkovich is playing PINO — Poirot in Name Only.
After Season 8, Dark Horse’s canonical “Buffy” comics do what the TV series did more than a decade prior: split into two series. While “Angel & Faith” go off to do their own thing, “Buffy” […]
Mamet Monday (Movie review): Mamet’s directorial debut is a meticulously crafted dive into the world of con men.
‘Batman’ flashback (Movie review): This spinoff from the Sixties TV series is an endless lame joke.