David Lynch looks behind the smiling faces and stucco houses of small town America and finds a shadow world of pure evil in Blue Velvet (1986). From the opening shots Lynch turns the Technicolor picture postcard images of middle class homes and tree lined lanes into a dreamy vision on the edge of nightmare. College […]
The 2006 TV season treated us to not one but two shows set backstage at a late-night comedy skit show. 30 Rock (2006-2013) was the funny one created by and starring Tina Fey, the former head writer of Saturday Night Live and host of the SNL “Weekend Update.” It was also the good one and […]
Take an uneasy lesson from Campbell Scott’s charismatic cad in Roger Dodger (2002), a sharply written character study in romantic cynicism. Scott owns the film from scene one as Roger holds court over drinks, keeping a group of working buddies in the thrall of his patter as he ponders the utility and extinction of the […]
