Criticism
Film/television/theatre criticism, published on multiple websites including the now-defunct A/V website Moon Beach Island. Most pieces are collected in Everyone Else is Wrong (And You Know It).
Film
Reviews: The Amazing Spider-man, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Burlesque, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (DVD), The Campaign, The Counselor, The Croods, The Dark Knight Rises (plus DVD), Ender's Game, Evil Dead (remake), Flight, The Great Gatsby, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Jack Reacher (DVD), Jack the Giant Slayer, Killing Me Softly, It Ends with Us, Les Misérables, Maestro, Mission: Impossible-- Ghost Protocol, Oz the Great and Powerful, Pain and Gain, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace (3-D release), This is 40, and Zero Dark Thirty.
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Articles: “Alternate Halloween Film Fare, "Award Season is Here," "Batmans on the Big Screen," "Can Millions of People Be Wrong?” “‘Important’ Cinema," "The Life Aquatic: 20 Years On," "Lost Classics: Disney's The Happiest Millionaire," "Lost Classics: Don Juan DeMarco," "Lost Classics: Norman Mailer's Maidstone," "My 4th of July Tradition," "A Quick Trek through Harry Potter," "Robert Altman (1925-2006)," "Oscars: Who Should've Won Anyway?/Who Will Win?," "A Sense of Shakespeare in Film," "Six Mini-Reviews of Films Currently Playing," "Too Many Award Shows, Too Many Good Movies," "“Top 5 Audio Commentaries," "Top 100 Films of the Decade 2000-2009,” “The Top Ten Best of 2012 and Top 13 Most Anticipated Movies of 2013," "Top 10 Best Remakes," "Top 10 Christmas Movies," "Top 10 Sequels," "The Top 10 Worst Films of 2012/The Top Least Anticipated Films of 2013," "Top 10 Worst Remakes," "Top 10 Worst Sequels,” "Universal Monster Mash"
T/V
Reviews: The Bible, Part 1, Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey, Family Guy Vol. 9 (DVD), Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial, Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, The Outreau Case: A French Nightmare, 10 Things I Hate About You (series), and This is the Zodiac Speaking
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Articles: “Distractions of the Idiot Box," "Emmy Recap 2012," "Hated Math, Loved Mathnet," "Netflix and Cold Cases," "Six Feet Under: Television Three Years Later," "South Park: Top 10 Episodes," "Some Favorite Saturday Night Live Sketches," "2013 Emmy Nominations," "The Greatest Youtube Video Ever (No, Really)," "Underrated Christmas Specials"
Theatre
Reviews: Chess in Concert (DVD), Jake's Women (Cahaba Theatre Group), Prelude to a Kiss (Theatre Downtown)
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Articles: "Christopher Durang (1949-2024)," "Einstein on the Beach: 20th Century Masterpiece," “Great Films Based on Plays," "Great Plays of the World Theatre," "Einstein the Beach: 20th Century Masterpiece," "How I Learned to Stop Being Pretentious and Love Cats," "King Charles III Again," "Marylyn Monroe: The Death of Arthur Miller," "On Andrew Lloyd Webber's Britishness," "On Neil Simon, Jake's Women, and Garlic," "On Political Theatre," "Profile: David Henry Hwang," "Stephen Sondheim: A Remembrance" (formerly "Profile: Stephen Sondheim"), "The Theatre and the Blues," "Unsung American Drama”
“[Songs of the Valley] features stories of people inadequately prepared for the world. Each offers its protagonists the opportunity to take a leadership role in their lives. Some succeed, others fail, some fail to try. All portray humanity at its most beautiful: fragile, finite, and shared."
- Penn Genthner
Director of Development
Classical Theatre of Harlem