Srtaff Reports

The last thing the television landscape needs right now is another comedian-hosted talk show, and yet now we have two more. The premiered on Fox on Saturday night, followed two...

Human endurance has long been the movies' supreme subject. Already, with the recent release of the wrenching new feature "Precious," we have traveled to hell and back with a 16-year-old...

'Disney's A Christmas Carol' **1/2 Robert Zemeckis has long been a filmmaker divided against himself, the techno-geek warring with the storyteller. His newest work, "Disney's A Christmas Carol" (Charles Dickens...

'The Box' *1/2 In "The Box," which is fairly insane by the standards of most Hollywood packages, writer-director Richard Kelly takes the 10-page story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson (who...

'(Untitled)' ** The new comedy "(Untitled)" has the punctuation and the thinness of a gallery wall label. It wanders the exhibition spaces, lofts and performance venues of Chelsea and other...

'The Men Who Stare at Goats' *** "The Men Who Stare at Goats" sounds like some ethnographic documentary about the bushmen of the Kalahari or the Bakhtiari herders of old...

'Precious' ***1/2 The first 20 minutes of "Precious," the full title of which is "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," are so intense and pitched so high, you...

The problem with being a television critic is that you have to watch so much television you don't have time to watch television. So when people ask, as they often...

Slayer, 'World Painted Blood' *** (out of four) In some ways, it's the same old Slayer. The subject matter certainly will sound familiar. Damnation of organized religion -- check ("Hate...

It's difficult to explain to someone who has never seen Showtime's "Dexter" why it is the most riveting and addictive show on television. When you try, you tend to sound...