With many historical epics, there’s an unwritten playbook. Focus on the important personages, keep the visual vocabulary grand and sweeping, present the larger picture. Be epic. In the new French-lan
“H2O: Just Add Water” is an Australian TV series obviously intended for teen and pre-teen audiences. But the creators and writers add a lot more than water. Every episode of this 2006 series will
“On the Waterfront” (1954) is so frequently hailed as a pivot point in naturalistic acting that it's easy to overlook its hodge-podge collection of disparate performance styles. Marlon Brando's Terry
Everything I know about musicals I more or less learned from my father. He was the one who brought this genre into my life and our home as I was growing up. It’s fair to say that I wasn’t all that thr
A search on IMDB for the keyword “zombie” brings up a list of 1862 items. TV, movies, games, whatever. One thousand, eight hundred. And sixty-two. For comparison’s sake, the word “juicebox” brings up
Redneck culture seems to have seeped its way into popular culture in the last year or so, mostly through reality TV, specifically TLC’s “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.” The show has been a huge success for
Celebrity is the ultimate entitlement. I know that's not a revelation, but this new documentary about trend-setting fashion editor Diana Vreeland (1903-1989) is a potent reminder. Vreeland blazed a w
“Smiley” is an ambitious re-imagining of Marcel Proust’s monumental seven volume series “In Search of Lost Time”, where a group of emoticons, led by the titular colon-parenthesis and trapped in th
“They would never cancel Game of Thrones! It’s a crossover hit, it’s not just for fantasy enthusiasts, they’re telling human stories in a fantasy world.”Ben Wyatt, "Parks and Recreation"That is
After seeing “Skyfall”—the 23rd film in the James Bond franchise—I’m not inclined to argue who’s the best Bond, who’s the ultimate Bond villain, who’s the best Bond “girl,” or who sang the best Bo
For a lot of people, a job is a job is a job. You do what the man tells you, you cash your paycheck, you go home. Why go out of your way trying to make the best widget at the factory? I make this (al
Babar isn’t your average elephant:He’s French . . . well, insomuch as he’s the creation of French children’s book author Jean de Brunhoff, who first wrote about “le petit elephant” in *Histoire de