The Wire (Seasons 1-3), w/guest Leonard Pierce
The fifth and final season of The Wire just wrapped up on HBO this past Sunday, and thus I decided to post a special two-part show that I recorded a…
The fifth and final season of The Wire just wrapped up on HBO this past Sunday, and thus I decided to post a special two-part show that I recorded a…
With the advent of a new year comes a brand-spankin’-new website, which currently houses many of the episodes from my now-defunct show Under Surveillance on WLUW, and will feature everything from new…
So, I originally wrote this essay about time-travel a year ago for the online pop-culture mag The High Hat, but they’ve been experiencing technical difficulties for quite a while, and… well,…
The AMC drama Mad Men will begin its third season within the coming week, and so it’s a pertinent time to turn our sights on this critically-acclaimed series. Mad Men focuses on the Sterling…
About a year ago, I wrote an essay for the online magazine The High Hat on the depictions of mental illness in film and television over the years — you can find…
How do we define “happiness?” How has that search been depicted in film and television throughout the years, through introspective characters who seek greater meaning in their lives (American Beauty),…
Summer has long been synonymous with action blockbusters as far as Hollywood is concerned, for better (Predator) and for worse (the new Michael Bay Transformers film). What cinema genres gave birth to…
How has the cinematic genre of romantic comedy been reflective of the evolution of the courtship process over the years? What do these sorts of movies say about the institution…
In commemoration of the recent conclusion of the critically-acclaimed Battlestar Galactica television series, here is an interview I recorded with Robert Thompson near the end of 2006 covering all sorts of…