By Kevin B. Lee [Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?] _____________________ Frank Borzage’s greatest...

By Adrian de la Touche [ Editor's Note: This is one of several Watchmen reviews/articles by House contributors. Check throughout the week for more.] When I hear "American Girl," I am reminded, immediately, of Buffalo Bill, and his bumptious endorsement of skin lotion. A few bars from "Don’t Stop B...

By Kevin B. Lee [Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?] _____________________ Opera singer Jill Clayburg...

By Todd VanDerWerff “Rough Edges,� written by Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer and directed by Dan Attias, just plunges forward, pell-mell, not terribly concerned with if it makes a lot of sense (that Woodruff letter storyline still feels dropped in from another series entirely, Mormon content no...

By Jonathan Pacheco Whenever a character makes the trek from a small country town to the Big Apple, you know something important’s going to happen. Jason Street and Tim Riggins seem to realize this as well. While celebrating the success of their house-flipping project, Jason reveals his intentions...

By Tom Stempel COMING UP IN THIS COLUMN: Moscow, Belgium; He’s Not That Into You; The International, Taken; Taking Chance; Ugly Betty; The Closer; and Damages, but first: *** FAN MAIL: Thanks for the nice comments about my grandson and Lawrence. Hokahey mentioned teaching a unit on American Film H...

By Jeremiah Kipp [ Editor's Note: To read Part 1 of the interview, click here.] In Daniel Bird's Pocket Essentials Guide to Roman Polanski , he describes Polanski's films as depicting “a godless world in which the good do not always triumph, the outsider is always persecuted and the innocent is al...

By Jeremiah Kipp Daniel Bird has been a strong partisan for outsider cinema, having written about provocative Czech, Slovak and Polish filmmakers for such publications as Eyeball, Vertigo Magazine and Kinoeye, contributed to DVD liner notes and commentaries for foreign cinema, and programmed for the...

By Todd VanDerWerff As if making penance for the last two weeks of limited Juniper Creek storylines, Sunday night’s Big Love, “Fight or Flight,� written by Patricia Breen and directed by Adam Davidson, was probably the most Juniper Creek-heavy episode of the season, if not since Season One. So...

By Kevin B. Lee [Editor's Note: This is the latest entry in House contributor Kevin B. Lee's Shooting Down Pictures , a record of his ongoing quest to see every title on the list of the 1000 Greatest Films compiled by They Shoot Pictures, Don't They?] _____________________ Despite having its copious...