Pantheon Books | 2009 | 208 pages | List price: $24.95 | Get it for less at Amazon A little over four years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. New Orleans and Mississippi are still recovering to this day. For those of us who witnessed the events only through news coverage, the scale of
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Miramax | 2002 | Rated PG-13 | 99 minutes | List price: $44.99 | Get it for less at Amazon By bringing HERO to American audiences, Quentin Tarantino and Miramax allow us to see a movie that is essentially a perfect example of its genre. Director Zhang Yimou (CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER) creates a
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Pantheon Books | 2009 | 336 pages | List price: $24.95 | Get it for less at Amazon In a game of opposites, what is the opposite of black? While one might naturally say white, in Norman Lebrecht’s finely wrought THE GAME OF OPPOSITES, the answer is gray. Black and white are the absolute absorption
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Pantheon Books | 2009 | 288 pages | List price: $24.00 | Get it for less at Amazon Freedom, sexuality, fortune, power, magic, love, immortality, adventure, and knowledge: according to Mayan legend whoever collects the nine plants of desire will have everything that he or she desires, but collecting them has a price. Before Lila
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Vampires seem to be everywhere these days. No matter where you look, be it at the movies, in books, on cable, or even smack in the middle of primetime, you are bound to find some character who is drinking someone’s blood. Now I’ve always liked the vampire mythos, but at some point a saturation level
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BBC America | 2009 | 293 minutes | List price: $34.99 | Get it for less at Amazon Creator and executive producer Russell T Davies chose to present the third Torchwood series as a continuous story in a five-day miniseries aired July 20-24 on BBC America. The whole series, along with a behind the scenes
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BBC America | 2009 | 60 minutes | List price: $19.89 | Get it for less at Amazon Just released on Blu-ray yesterday is the recent Easter episode of “Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead.” This is the start of the last four hours of David Tennant’s tenure as the Doctor and is the first
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In the interest of full disclosure, I am a big Doctor Who fan. Ever since I discovered Tom Baker fighting a minotaur on late night PBS in college, I have been hooked. So when BBC America announced that they would be holding a Doctor Who panel at Comic-Con, I eagerly stood in line for hours
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There were several reasons to be excited to see this panel. For one thing, Terry Gilliam is an original member of Monty Python, which was reason enough for me. Secondly, he directed such classics as TIME BANDITS and BRAZIL. Also, this was his first Comic-Con appearance, and during the panel he was awarded the Comic-Con’s
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