Category: sitcoms

  • Why Phantom Menace was not a complete failure By Robert Nagle

    Here’s a humorous 70 minute video review analyzing why Star Wars: The Phantom Menace didn’t work as film-making.  (Don’t worry; it’s broken down into 10 minute chunks). The review is sarcastic/silly/vulgar, but the critiques are valid: the film has no protagonist; the plot is too complicated, the Jedi’s powers are too unclear and arbitrary, there’s…

  • Sex-and-the-City tours

    A.A. Gill lampoons those who take the Sex-in-the-City tours of New York City: “You remember the episode where Carrie spills the cappuccino because she’s looking after the dog and has lost the manuscript with a description of oral sex with the Russian and then oh my God she bumps into Big who she hasn’t seen…