genres
New TV Dramas Are Taking Moral Issues Seriously

It's rather startling how much of the culture is exploring moral issues in increasingly tr...

television
Surprise! You’re a Bitch!—New ABC Comedy

The new ABC situation comedy Samantha Who?, starring Christina Applegate (Married with Chi...

commerce
Perry Buries Competition at Weekend Movie Box Office

This past weekend's movie box office tallies provided more evidence that U.S. audiences ar...

commerce
Joyless New TV Series Continue Ratings Freefall

The unintelligent and unpleasant new TV series Cavemen (ABC), Carpoolers (ABC), and Cane (...

television
Another Eccentric TV Detective

Life, a  new drama series on NBC, Wednesdays at 10 p.m. EDT, is a mystery series with...

television
TV Mystery Series with a Twist—NBC’s Journeyman

The new NBC program Journeyman, Mondays at 10 p.m. EDT, is an attempt at a mystery series ...

commerce
Dark Honeymoon Comedy Off to a Bad Start at Box Office

The past weekend's movie box office statistics provide another reminder that many people a...

commerce
Amazon.com Holds Novel-Writing Contest

Amazon.com is holding a contest to find the best unpublished debut novel. The winner will ...

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Innocuous “Aliens”

 Conservative writers have been criticizing the new CW sitcom Aliens in America (Mond...

genres
A Very Good Film Dealing with Devil Worship

Tonight at 8:00 EDT Turner Network Television is showing a very underrated movie from 1957...

genres
Pale “Moonlight”

Like Pushing Daisies (analyzed earlier on this site), the new CBS drama series Moonlight e...

commerce
ABC’s “Daisies” Starts Strong

The award for most creative new show so far this year certainly must go to Pushing Daisies...

commerce
Audiences Decide Bionic Woman a Bionic Bore

As we noted yesterday, the high ratings for the premiere episode of the new NBC series Bio...

television
Bionic Gloombot

If you were going to make a show about a "bionic woman," it would be all about ...

television
ABC’s “Carpoolers”

The new ABC sitcom Carpoolers which debuted last night, tells the stories of four men in p...

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ABCs “Cavemen” Draws Surprisingly Well in First Outing

The new ABC sitcom Cavemen, reviewed below, drew a surprisingly large audience for its pre...

commerce
Rolling Stones Tour Grosses Half a Billion Dollars

The Rolling Stones' recently concluded two-year concert tour grossed more than half a bill...

television
ABC’s Senseless “Cavemen”

The new ABC comedy Cavemen premiered last night. As you probably know, it's based on the a...

music
Glass Hammer’s “Culture of Ascent”: Brilliant Music, Powerful Emotions

The Tennessee-based progressive rock band Glass Hammer, led by songwriters and virtuoso in...

commerce
Action Star “The Rock” Goes Gooey

The new Disney film The Game Plan, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as an egot...

manners-and-morals
ABC’s “Big Shots” Misses Big

ABC's new series Big Shots (Thursdays at 10 pm EDT), which premiered last night, is clearl...

genres
Master Storyteller

Critic John J. Miller has published a very informative interview with Robert E. Howard sch...

television
A Charming “Reaper”

Filmmaker Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma) is a common type of modern American: vulgar but reli...

television
Dirty Sexy Morality Tale

 I don't suppose that many regular readers of this august publication missed my revie...

movies
“Eastern Promises” More Than It Delivers

Cronenberg's noble failure shows importance of a strong story. David Cronenberg's Eas...

television
CBS’ “Cane”—Just Depicting Ethnic Strife, or Fomenting It?

The new CBS TV series Cane is something of a return to the 1980s primetime soap opera sty...

commerce
Appalling Scandal of Alfred Hitchcock’s Collaboration

A new exhibit opening Friday at Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art brings the a...

commerce
Hollywood’s Antiwar Investment—Wasted!

Here's a big non-surprise: the spate of antiwar films Hollywood has begun to release in re...

manners-and-morals
The Very Real Dangers of Race-Baiting

The current race controversy in Jena, Louisiana, is, as is the natural order of things, on...

commerce
Disney Suppressing “Path to 9/11” DVD for Political Reasons?

The Hollywood actress known in print as Anna Nimouse notes today on National Review Online...

manners-and-morals
Boys Will Be Girls—on TV, in Movies, and in a Stylish Condo or Messy Apartment Near You

The tendency of the nation's schools to suppress boys' natural ways of seeing and doing th...

television
Unusual Moral Concerns in a Sitcom

 Back to You is an idea devised in TV programmer's Heaven: get the star of Frasier an...

television
Fox’s Kitchen Nightmares Reviewed

The new Fox TV reality program Kitchen Nightmares is, like the Fox summer reality series H...