TV & Film

The Season 3 finale of Dexter managed to wrap everything up neatly, if a bit hurriedly, concluding with a big, happy wedding scene and the same words the season opened with: “Life is good.” Dexter has grown into a new role, the supporting cast have all had their own personal triumphs, and the dangers set [...]

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This weekend the third season of Dexter hit the three-quarter mark — a good time to pause, take stock, and blog. I talked a bit about my impressions of the first four episodes a month ago in a post called Dexter Season 3: Still to Die For, and today’s post is of a similar kind.
Firstly, [...]

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Despite having not yet read any of George R. R. Martin’s massive fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire, I’m pretty excited by the recent news that HBO has gone ahead and ordered a pilot for A Game of Thrones, the first book in the series.
Here is a link to the news at The [...]

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Since the demise of my beloved Deadwood (shot in the back at Nuttall’s No. 10 Saloon), there isn’t a whole lot to get me excited on television anymore, with two exceptions. Mad Men, a stylish and anthropologically fascinating show about a Madison Avenue ad agency on AMC, and Dexter, a police procedural/serial killer thriller/fish-out-of-water black-comedy-drama [...]

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Now this is pretty cool. The Outbreak is a short film with a forking narrative path that lets you choose how the central character deals with a developing zombie crisis. So at the end of each ‘chapter’ of a few minutes you select how to proceed. Kill the wounded (and possibly infected) man, or let [...]

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