An atypical noir that knows how to use its incongruities to its advantage.
This film straddles both the era of studio dominance and the burgeoning independence of filmmakers in the '50s.
Forget Sam Spade - Philip Marlowe is the man of this hour.
No, last week's improvement was NOT a fluke. Last week's uneven quality wasn't either.
A dull sendoff to director Jack Arnold's sci-fi resume.
Don't monkey with a winning formula - beloved children's books get nice animated adaptation.
Creepy classic British B-movie sci-fi/horror in the vein of the Quatermass movies.
Ice, ice, baby.
While Bob Marley's Catch A Fire didn't break reggae music wide open in America in the way intended, it clearly laid the groundwork.
Full Moon Cigarette paints a picture in my mind, one that not only describes the music but could serve as a backdrop.
It's not about making a quick buck or converts, it's about celebrating.
With The Joshua Tree, U2 entered a very unique part of the rock and roll stratosphere. They became important.
Peter Frampton's newest CD Fingerprints might not be what you would expect from him, but great just the same.
They still sound like mewithoutYou without any doubt.
Blood Red Earth is top forty dross wearing the guise of Native spirituality.
I have heard the future of hip-hop -- and it is SoS.
How is giving the Westboro Baptist Church an hour on your show preferable to them protesting a funeral?
They had steaks, seafood, oysters, lobster, clam chowder, venison, bacon, sausage: if you had the money you ate better than we do now.
The writer reflects on the natural beauty of an area of Pakistan hit by an earthquake on October 8, 2005.
Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for October 08, 2006
The 2006 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry is Dr. Roger Kronberg, less than fifty years after his father won the prize in Medicine.
A nicely designed and varied ride through a video game universe.
Defy the dictatorship of books. Stop being their slaves. Take command of your reading life and pursue the books one at a time.
A beautiful story about family.
52, a DC Comics Event starring Lobo, Lex Luthor Starfire, Animal Man and Adam Strange.
Lawntennisnews closes this week on hand reporting with the finals in Stuttgart.
The first two Blue Jacket games of the 2006-07 season, dissected and reconstructed.
Michael Scumacher has his first engine failure since 2001, while Alonso takes to top step of the podium in Japan.
Never before had gridlocked downtown streets rife with honking horns and screaming passengers been so happy. In friggin' Detroit, no less.
mental_floss question of the day.
There is a current humanitarian crisis and unimaginable suffering in the northern part of the country of which too few American citizens are aware.