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Count the pores (Ed Helms in 2015's "Vacation")

There's more to movies than special effects

Cartoonized: A rant on the digital age

Hollywood needs to relearn to use lower-tech, more creative ways to draw in audiences and tell stories. Just because we have the ability to use special effects technologies doesn’t mean we always should.

Ryan Dellaquila

Sep 29, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

Hannibal + Will 4ever. (Photo by NBC - © 2014 NBCUniversal Media, LLC)

Bryan Fuller's 'Hannibal' (second review)

Sympathy for the devil

Hannibal is a retelling of Goethe’s Faust in which FBI profiler Will Graham/Faust and Dr. Hannibal Lecter/Mephistopheles fall in love.

Paula Berman

Sep 15, 2015 Articles 7 minute read

A shocking performance: Brando with Maria Schneider in “Last Tango in Paris.” (© 1972 – MGM)

'Listen to Me Marlon' (second review)

Still asking questions of Marlon Brando

Stevan Riley’s documentary Listen to Me Marlon impressionistically and unevenly surveys the career of America’s greatest film actor, and its ultimate wreckage.

Robert Zaller

Sep 08, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

Devolving to name-calling: Buckley and Vidal. (Photo by ABC Photo Archives - © 2010 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.)

'Best of Enemies': The Buckley-Vidal debates of 1968

The documentary Best of Enemies revisits 1968’s game-changing TV debate between two cultural titans, William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal.

Carol Rocamora

Aug 30, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

“After he gave us Vito Corleone, I kept waiting for him to play Lear.” Brando in “The Godfather” (© 1972 - Paramount Pictures)

'Listen to Me Marlon' directed by Stevan Riley

The genius of Marlon Brando

In the new documentary Listen to Me Marlon, if we didn’t know it already, we are convinced of the genius of Marlon Brando and the significance of his artistic contribution.

Joanna Rotté

Aug 25, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

Yoda-speak and Batman whispers: Vaughn and Farrell. (© 2015 HBO)

Second season of 'True Detective' (second review)

Fortune cookie dialogue and a plot out of 1985

Season one of True Detective was flawed but extremely enjoyable. I watched season two hoping week by week that it would get better. It didn’t.

Tara Lynn Johnson

Aug 18, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Two troubled antiheroes: Vaughn and Farrell. (Photo by Lacey Terrell - © 2015 HBO)

The failure of 'True Detective'’s second season

The show we deserve?

The tagline for the second season of True Detective was “We get the world we deserve.” I’m not sure what I did to deserve this mess of a season, but whatever it was, I’m sorry.

Paula Berman

Aug 18, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

Carry on with caution. (Rami Malek in “Mr. Robot”) (Photo by USA Network/David Giesbrecht/USA Network - © 2015 USA Network Media, LLC)

USA Network’s ‘Mr. Robot’

Fight Club meets Macbeth

Don’t let the somewhat silly title fool you. Mr. Robot is one of the most intense and thrilling viewing experiences of the summer.

Jessica Friedman

Aug 18, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

What can you do? (photo via Comedy Central)

Jon Stewart: An appreciation

Jon Stewart ate my homework

With a rich history of 20th-century political comedians speaking truth to power, Jon Stewart firmly held a standard of intelligence and hilarity that few have equaled.

Susan Beth Lehman

Aug 11, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Aniston puts a "brave" face on her performance in "Cake."

Jennifer Aniston in 'Cake'

Not just a pretty face

When Cake came out, people lauded star Jennifer Aniston — for not wearing makeup. That’s a daring choice? Would the same amazement and attention have been given to a man who made the same decision? And would I even have noticed she wasn’t wearing any if I hadn’t been told?