Reviews by TrekMedic

As The Closer comes to an end, reflection dictates that we will remember the show, which started as summer filler, complete with a crazy-like-a-fox, fish-out-of-water protagonist, proved to be stronger than anyone ever gave it credit. And it helped launch the current creative excellence and dominance of cable television over the network trash (especially when the Big 4 seem hell-bent to show nothing but "reality shows" until the fall).

Why does this look like [Link removed - login to see] meets "Jersey Shore" and written by the Coen Brothers???

Ponderous, predictable, and loaded with tons of useless special effects. I actually fell asleep the first time I watched it!

Not a great movie, but Billy Crystal's homage to the early day of comedy TV, with a few thinly-veiled shots at some the early TV greats.

Probably one of the benchmarks of the mini-series genre and one of the best British-produced shows in television history. Some of the younger actors have gone on to have lengthy and significant careers in film and TV. I watch it anytime it gets aired on TV.

Crushed under the weight of its own pondering seriousness, Caprica started slow and never seemed to catch on fast enough. The subplots were tight enough, but the Zoe is/isn't alive plot got to be too confusing. If they made her more like the humanoid Cylons from BSG, it would've been easier to related to her character.

Kind of a mixed up movie (then again, half of Samuel Jackson's movies are,...) but there's a lot of anti-American sentiment that most of us Yanks would miss, as well as the British in-jokes. It'll get lumped in as a second cousin to the Lock, Stock and Layer Cake genre.

The Bridge On the River Kwai wasn't just about the Pacific Theatre of World War II, it was about British pride and the "stiff upper lip" attitude. Not only did the British seek to build the bridge as a symbol of British moral and dignity, they sought to undermine the Japanese by simply being "British." The entire scene of the British POWs presenting to their captors the plan to properly build the bridge was as much a demonstration of British know-how as it was a way to wear down the camp commander with the Western business model.

I remember the later years (72-73) of this show. Interesting trivia: The Love Boat started out as a vignette from one of the episodes.

With her deadpan, sarcastic lines and timing, Jane Levy is the breakout star of the show.The rest of the cast, from Jeremy Sisto's befuddled single dad to Cheryl Hines and the vapid sexpot, are all playing roles direct from TV Central Casting. Allie Grant is a surprise after her role on Weeds, but Carly Chaikin's Dalia is an absolute distraction! She's trying to play the spoiled, rich alpha girl but she comes off as either stoned or heavily-medicated and kills every scene she's in.