If you can’t remember, I’ll tell you, tonight is that greatest of all time travel movies, La Jatee (1961) at 1 AM EST on Turner Classic Movies. It’s short, it’s[…]
The holidays provide many dubious pleasures, one of which is to see what the rest of your family watches on television. In my case, as we are all congregated in[…]
“Well, you know, we only go round once in this life.” “If only I could be sure of that.” And so it goes with Adrian Monk, some-time detective and full-time[…]
Since cutting off my cable I’ve managed to avoid 99% of the crap advertising I used to be subject to. Now I just have to soak up the subliminal messages[…]
DVD & Blu-ray · TV & Streaming
Keats, Shelley, and firm, manly thighs Ever wonder what life would be like if English majors ruled the world? A chilling prospect, to be sure, but a damned unlikely one.[…]
SF & Fantasy · TV & Streaming · Writers & Critics
Playwright. Screenwriter. Producer. Known primarily for two major achievments: (1) He wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960). (2) He was the producer and chief writer for the first[…]
Reviews · TV & Streaming · Writers & Critics
“Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?” Hamlet, it must be said, is not[…]
Funny, yes, but where are all the queers? “Mr. Punctuality, that’s what they used to call me.” “Did they call you that at college?” “No, kindergarten.” And so it goes[…]
Animation · LGBT & Queer · Reviews · TV & Streaming
He’s fun-damental, not fundamentalist! He’s a Candide for the 21st century, facing the everyday predicaments of the human condition with a sunny optimism and unreasonable zest that seem borderline manic,[…]
The best-written show on television?1 That’s what a lot of people have been saying about F&G, which ran on NBC for a single season back in 1999–2000. Granted, that’s setting the[…]
Sure Arthur Miller’s masterpiece is flawed, but so’s your mother On paper, Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize winner, shouldn’t work. Miller intended the play as another[…]
Music & Musicals · TV & Streaming
There was a time, America, a time when public television consisted of more than Antiques Roadshow, women in pantsuits explaining how to feel good about yourself, and reruns of inane[…]
These cinematic dogs get a pat on the head before being given the boot When Ealing comedy, the cinematic brand that uniquely embodied 20 years of idiosyncratically “charming” English humour,[…]
The theme of the latest edition of the acclaimed PBS queer newsmagazine is the queer body and the queer body politic under assault. The body as battleground is the tacit[…]
