TV Eye

After a 16-month hiatus, The Sopranos' fourth season finally arrives, accompanied by a slew of related books.

"...all television dramas, The Sopranos. If you're not up to speed on the HBO drama, don't fret. Season recaps..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Tick vs. Season One

Not all is well in the City, but it's good to be back

"...If your ears should happen to be assaulted by hyperexcited voices bellowing the word "Spoon!"..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Screens Review by Ken Lieck

DVD Watch

'Sunday Bloody Sunday'

"...Cowboy – that headlined his New York Times obit, director John Schlesinger funneled his most intimate bits into 1971’s..."

Oct. 23, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Film noir's shadowy look and bleak attitude get their clutches into this melodramatic corker from 1946

"...The Strange Love of Martha IversHD Cinema Classics, $15.98 (DVD/Blu-ray combo)..."

June 15, 2012 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

TV Eye gets schooled by readers, Paul Saucido and Stephen Mills on the air, and this Twitter's for you

"...A couple of readers had something to say about last week's "TV Eye," "And Then There..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

O. Henry's Full House

His popular (and populist) short stories pretty much invited adaptations, a calculated risk that 20th Century Fox decided to gamble on in 1952

"...Century Fox, $19.98 "People ask me how I manage to come up with that 'fine little twist' to my..."

Dec. 1, 2006 Screens Review by Steve Uhler

TV Eye

Turnoffs

"...Two weeks ago, I wrote that LAT TV would launch on channel 17. It did, though several..."

June 2, 2006 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

This was one of those weeks when I was asked my 'expert' opinion on a variety of TV-related subjects

"...was asked my "expert" opinion on a variety of TV-related subjects. On the heels of these questions, I discovered..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Just before I threw out her TV (or at least thought about it), I looked back at television in 2004

"...Wire (HBO): Honestly, this show was created for the DVD format, and I mean that as a compliment...."

Jan. 7, 2005 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Skin Deep

If it hadn't been such a hack job (and a transparent, two-star rewrite of one of Edwards' numerous commercial peaks), Skin Deep might've done for John Ritter what its blueprint, 10, did for Dudley Moore: transform the TV vet into a viable leading man at the box office.

"...Warner Bros. DVD, $19.99..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

DVD Watch: 'Vanishing Waves'

Tender, shocking, erotic: Maybe not what you expect from Lithuania

"...Lukas (Marius Jampolskis) and Aurora (Jurga Jutaite) have never touched, but theirs is a relationship of the deepest intimacy...."

July 23, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch

An on-set ‘Raiders’ doc distinguishes this new Indy collection

"...anyway). That featurette details how SFX whizzes turned Major Toht’s head into molten goo at the climax of Raiders..."

Sept. 18, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

TV Eye

It's ba-ack: The season debut of The Wire marks the return of appointment television

"...Just when you thought there was nothing to watch on TV, something old and something new turned..."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

'Night and the City' and 'Thieves Highway'

The artistic tragedy of Jules Dassin's being blacklisted in Hollywood after 1949's swiftly compelling 'Thieves' Highway' is leavened somewhat by the fact that the 94-year-old director is still around to partake in the contemporary celebration of his dashing noir oeuvre

"...is leavened somewhat by the fact that the 93-year-old director is still around to partake in the contemporary celebration..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

TV Eye

As the final eight episodes of Sex and the City hit the small screen, Belinda Acosta feels like she's leaving the Big Apple behind again.

"...heard the hype surrounding the conclusion of two popular TV series: Friends (NBC) and Sex and the City (HBO)...."

Jan. 9, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Strong words from Edward James Olmos, and what's on this week.

"...the annual TCA gathering. That's the Television Critics Association to TV wonks, a members-only group that is as guarded..."

July 18, 2003 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Couldn't you use a good laugh?

"...Stealing Laughter I was walking into a grocery store earlier this month when I noticed..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

New Documentary The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story Tunes in to the Channel That Changed TV

Shorts, Dudes, and Good Burgers

"...the pioneering cable channel for kids kept their friendship together at a low point in their lives. Sweeney remembers..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch: 'V/H/S'

Found footage anthology from the mumblecore crowd and friends

"...footage terror. It makes sense. "We are all camera operators," as Helen Rogers (the titular victim from ghostly segment..."

Dec. 4, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

TV Eye

'TV Eye' puzzles over Kings and ponders 10 years in print

"...time since I felt this way about a broadcast TV show, but after watching Kings, the new drama on..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

It smells like strike ... again. TV Eye preemptively tosses her TV for the Internet.

"...long I can keep up this life without a TV marathon that the pending actors' strike snuck up on..."

July 4, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

Baffled Intrigue

"...It took three tries before I finally did it. I watched..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

La Lupe

"...you right between the eyes. Not because of its story or how it looks or by its message, but..."

June 1, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

If they launch it, viewers will come

"...That's the fundamental idea behind the Fox network's announcement to officially move to a year-round programming schedule. Changing the..."

June 4, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Kiss Me Deadly

'Blood-red kisses,' 'white-hot thrills,' and a radioactive Pandora's box

"...Kiss Me DeadlyCriterion Collection, $39.95 (Blu-ray), $29.95 (DVD)..."

June 24, 2011 Screens Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

A recent slew of political, cultural, and environmental documentaries prove how indispensable PBS is

"...By the looks of recent e-mails TV Eye has received, you would think the only things..."

April 23, 2010 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

TV Eye

It's spring-cleaning at "TV Eye," and we're clearing out the inbox

"...It's spring-cleaning here at the "TV Eye" desk. Here are a few things recovered from..."

May 2, 2008 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer

The two-disc 'Collected Shorts' spans 27 years, and while some of the films don't fully cross the CGI generational divide, you can see in all of them why animators like Tim Burton have been so strongly influenced by Svankmajer's work

"...do, their faces dimple, indent, and then smash entirely together, their bodies still separate and leaning toward each other..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Screens Review by Nora Ankrum

Two With Ted Knight

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Complete Second Season' and 'Too Close for Comfort: The Complete Second Season'

"...20th Century Fox, $29.98Too Close for Comfort: The Complete Second Season..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Ernie Kovacs Collection

He was an innovating TV comedian and the least successful success in the business

"...The Ernie Kovacs CollectionShout! Factory, $69.97..."

April 22, 2011 Screens Review by Robert Faires

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