Scandal is trash TV, but only in the most superficial sense; it’s better than almost everything else. Scandal […]
Author: Chris Bord
“Above all, this merger will benefit you, our customers.” – Robert D. Marcus, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer […]
Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk is a great album for a gray, snowy day. Maybe it’s just me. I remember […]
Syracuse Stage seasons are predictable: one sublime piece, two or three honorable mentions, one cheesy head-scratcher, and one […]
Post-Mortem on I LOVE YOU BECAUSE, February 2014 When I was thirteen, I co-directed a middle-school production of […]
Philip Seymour Hoffman died yesterday. I think I’ve seen all of his movies, many of them as a […]
Brie Larson is quietly amazing in Short Term 12, one of the best films of 2013. The title […]
By my reckoning, David O. Russell has delivered just one fully formed movie – The Fighter (2010). By […]
Before Midnight A romance for grown-ups. Direction, writing and acting so good you don’t even think about the […]
I watched a lot of good TV in 2013 (my 1988-self can’t believe it.) Netflix scored big with […]
