OK, I’m capable of being melodramatic.  I’ll admit that.  In high school and college, I would make mix tapes (and yes they were cassette tapes) that I titled Eclectic Mellow that I’d put on when I wanted to sit in the dark and contemplate the injustice of life.  This almost always coincided with periods where [...]

I’m going to say goodbye to Lost sometime around May next year.  I know the end  is coming.  They’ve told me so.  And unlike other shows (Hello, Scrubs) that claim to be exiting stage left and then come back in some lesser distorted form, I know that Lost is going away forever.  (And I really [...]

If it is possible to win an Oscar for the first twenty minutes of a movie, then Where the Wild Things Are has this year’s honor sewed up.  For twenty minutes, Spike Jonze has made the most painfully real portrait of a normal flawed relationship between a parent and a child that I’ve seen in [...]