A NYC schoolteacher now working in Amsterdam, an Australian-born Parisian hotel bartender residing in Edinburgh (who the schoolteacher met at her hotel the night before), and a vibrant chaplain...
AMC’s Breaking Bad returned last week with a deliciously dark season opener after forcing viewers to wait 13 months after last season’s cliffhanger finale. As the finale had led viewers to...
Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, and The Tree of Life - with only 5 films directed in the last 40 years Peter Biskind was on the money when he called Terrence Malick,...
US network TNT has dipped some toes into the science fiction waters with Falling Skies, a post-apocalyptic narrative set in the United States after an alien invasion. The aliens have settled in for...
HBO's True Blood, a vampire and lust-filled adaptation of the Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris, has been captivating summer audiences for three seasons now with Alan Ball at the helm....
Summer used to be the most dire season in television, between the re-runs of television's most insipid offerings and the series of increasingly depressing and dire reality shows. Both are very much...
This review contains spoilers. The author doubts that this will matter to anyone by now, but you’ve nonetheless been warned. AMC’s newest show, “The Killing,” ended on an infuriating note...
Slavoj Žižek, Living in the End Times, updated paperback ed. (New York and London: Verso, 2011). The philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek has put reviewers of his latest book, Living in...
In May, the US networks traveled to New York City for the upfronts, a glitzy event where they attempt to convince advertisers, and the public, that they're still relevant. For advertisers, it's a...
Deciphering the universe of Hindi soaps demands an astute eye for the texture of relationships within joint families. A few clarifications, hence, for folk unfamiliar with the nuances of an Indian...
