Entourage Limps Across Finish Line

HBO’s “Entourage” limps across the finish line and hits a note of cynicism in its eighth and finale season. No one evolves. Conflicts fueling the series are mere misunderstandings not worth fleshing out. Betrayals are easily forgiven when money and fame are on the horizon. Smart women and money are easy. These are the lessons [...]

Ebert’s Take on Conan the Barbarian

“Conan the Barbarian” involves a clash of civilizations whose vocabularies are limited to screams, oaths, grunts, howls, ejaculations, exclamations, vulgarities, screeches, wails, bellows, yelps and woofs. I’d love to get my hands on the paycheck for subtitling this movie. The plot involves — oh, never mind. You have your Barbarians, and they kill one another [...]

Falling Skies: Review

Falling Skies spends too little time on the science and fiction of the genre. Rather, the series explores how human relationships are challenged in the wake of catastrophe.

Transformers: Dark Side of The Moon: Review

“Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” a work of ineffable soullessness and persistent moral idiocy, concludes with Chicago taking it in the shorts for 50-odd minutes, at the hands of the Decepticons in an alien takeover scored, partially, to an emo-ballad mourning the “cataclysm” of it all. In the original Greek, “cataclysm” means to “wash down,” [...]

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