POSTED // Oct 3,2007 - The Jane Austen-ification of chick culture is something of a conundrum for a thinking gal such as myself. On the one hand, Austen was all about independence, backbone and not settling romantically. On the other hand, her popularity these...

POSTED // Oct 3,2007 - 30 Rock Thursday, Oct. 4 (NBC) Season Premiere: Remember how last season I said that 30 Rock would survive while the similarly Saturday Night Live-themed Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip would collapse under its own pretensions? No? Anyway, 30 Rock is back...

POSTED // Sep 26,2007 - In 1967, Feast of Love director Robert Benton got his first screen credit as co-writer of Bonnie & Clyde. He appears to have calmed down quite a bit since then. Make no mistake, Benton has done a lot of fine film work behind the camera. Kramer vs....

POSTED // Sep 26,2007 - Big Shots Thursday, Sept. 27 (ABC) Series Debut: They’re four alpha-male corporate execs but, damn it, they have feelings, too! Big Shots was apparently shooting for Sex and the City With Dicks but just wound up with dicks. Watching metrosexual...

POSTED // Sep 19,2007 - Ever since Crash was a surprise Best Picture winner in 2006—and Paul Haggis was carried to his second consecutive screenwriting Oscar—I’ve been trying to make sense of the guy. At last, I think I’ve found something that helps everything...

POSTED // Sep 19,2007 - Chuck, Journeyman Monday, Sept. 24 (NBC) Series Debuts: This is not another hack piece about how the new fall season is all “geeked” out. Damn, TV critics are a creative lot. The titular Chuck of NBC’s new Heroes lead-in works at Buy...

POSTED // Sep 5,2007 - As I write this, Shoot ’Em Up is still “not yet rated” by the MPAA. In all likelihood, that august organization can’t decide if this gloriously deranged orgy of Bugs Bunny-style action and nonstop gunplay warrants an NC-17—because...

POSTED // Sep 5,2007 - TorchwoodSaturday, Sept. 8 (BBC America) Series Debut: A spin-off (and anagram) of Doctor Who that’s being pitched as a sci-fi combo plate of The X-Files, Angel and, well, Doctor Who: A team of pretty special-ops agents keep watch on a space/time...

POSTED // Aug 29,2007 - The summer heat has begun to fade, which means it’s time for movie theaters to turn their attention from films based on comic books to films based on book-books. Which literary adaptations hold promise? It’s time for our third annual library-fueled...

POSTED // Aug 29,2007 - Last week, The Only TV Column That Matters™ told you how wrong the pretentious fucks were about television, that there’s plenty on the tube (mostly cable fare) artistically equal to anything that’s happening in The Cinema. As usual,...