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TV Review: “Secrets of the Dead: Mumbai Massacre”
Exactly one year ago, ten terrorists from the Jihadist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure) sailed from Pakistan to India. Their goal was to attack that country’s financial and culture heart, Mumbai. They were
Read More »TV Review: “Independent Lens – No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos”
The latest installment of the vaunted PBS series Independent Lens is No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos. The documentary about the legendary Hungarian cinematographers debuts this week around the country. Check your local listings
Read More »TV Review: “Independent Lens: Objectified” (PBS)
Gary Hustwit is best known (to me, anyway) as the filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary about Wilco, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, and his film about synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog, simply called
Read More »TV Review: “The Prisoner”
Beginning this Sunday night, AMC will be asking you to invest six hours of your television viewing time, over the course of three nights, in their remake of the iconic ’60s British drama, The
Read More »Television Review: “Secrets of the Dead: The Airmen and the Headhunters”
The Airmen and the Headhunters is the most recent entry in the PBS series Secrets of the Dead, which has been running for nine years on the network. The documentary tells the little-known story
Read More »TV Review: “How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin”
On November 9, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, PBS in New York (check your local listings for date and time in your area) will air the
Read More »TV Review: “Brick City”
Image via CrunchBase When my grandparents emigrated from Eastern Europe, it was to Newark, N.J. that they came. My parents were born and raised in the Newark. For most of my life, I have
Read More »TV Review: “Community”
Ah, now this is more like it. I was beginning to hate you, 2009 fall television season, what with your moderately entertaining musicals and comedy scourges who were supposed to go away, but with
Read More »TV Review: “Melrose Place”
There’s a killer on the loose in Melrose Place! Beware! The ’90s hit soap is back, this time on the CW, which seems to be mining the previous decade for new programming (or is
Read More »TV Review: “The Jay Leno Show”
I hate Jay Leno so much. Like most hatreds, my feelings for Leno are irrational. I mean, yes, he pretty much empirically sucks, but his brand of humor is so resolutely innocuous that hating
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