Posts Tagged v
“Alice in Wonderland” (Review) It’ Ain’t Your Mama’s Alice Anymore
by: Dr. LoreneWales
For those of you who may not be familiar with Burtons’ work, he is a writer, director, producer, and sometimes actor. Ever since he hit the mainstream with Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, he’s been entertaining audiences with his dark, wry humor and eclectic adaptations of classic stories. Films like Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride and Edward Scissorhands [...]
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New ‘Alien Option’ for Healthcare
On November 9, 2009 at 9:53 am
Aliens are among us, and they have brought universal health care.
In “V,” strange Visitors from another planet drop in to visit earth without warning, causing panic worldwide until the aliens’ charismatic leader broadcasts a well-written, brilliantly delivered speech on the giant LCD screen built into the bottom of their city-wide space ships. In soothing, diplomatic [...]
V for Verisimilitude
On November 5, 2009 at 11:33 am
ABC’s remake of the 1983 miniseries “V” debuted Wednesday night. It’s good. Only one episode in it’s already better than anything ABC has to offer, cleverly avoiding the traps a first act tends to set: overlong character development acted at mediocre caliber, slow reveals, laying an obvious groundwork for future plot twists. V bypasses all [...]
