"Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew," is a reality television show that tracks a group of celebrities whom enter psychiatric treatment for sex addiction. Enticing, right? Unfortunately this show breaks few barriers in following the traditional reality TV recipe: one part spontaneous behavior, one part rehearsed behavior, and [...]
Let's look at the construct of the serial killer persona for a moment. The persona can perhaps best be encapsulated by an intangible essence: that creepy, goosebumps down my sine feeling that I get when I sense a sort of foreign and frightening aura carried by someone,' [...]
Having become an annual shoe-in for an Emmy nomination, the television show "How I Met Your Mother" has entered its fifth season with a lot of steam. One of the most obvious explanations for the show's success is Barney, a side character who is central to the' [...]
Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page, stars of "Whip It," can be seen kissing on the inside of Marie Claire magazine. I mention this only because it is the latest piece of supportive evidence for a hypothesis that I've been building about "Whip It." This film purports to' [...]
This is not the typical story of time travel. Far from the lone adventurer-scientist conquering a life long dream to explore the world in another dimension, this tragic plotline chronicles a romantic with common aspirations and abilities trapped in a time-space continuum nightmare. His name is Henry [...]
In the mid-1990's something strange happened to Martin Lawrence, an exceedingly successful Hollywood comedian. He engaged in a violent outburst and drug abuse on the set of "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate." Increasingly erratic behavior culminated in an arrest for waving a pistol and screaming [...]
"The Taking of Pelham 123" is your run of the mill action-packed, summer blockbuster. There are bullets, body counts, witty one-liners and, most significantly, a cat and a mouse. The cat is a bad guy played by John Travolta. He hijacks a NYC subway. The mouse is [...]
For the past two seasons, a hit drama on HBO has been gathering steam. All the signs of a tipping point are present, as the show is being talked about everywhere, from the grocery store to online listservs to academic conferences. The show is In Treatment, [...]
