Articles by Graham Duncan

Miracle

Directed by Gavin O'Connor

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2020

Miracle tells the story of the 1979 Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. men's hockey team and their startling defeat of the dominant Soviet nat...

The Rat Patrol Season Two

PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2007

Does the war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg know that Victor Newman on The Young and the Restless is actually Huaptmann Hans Dietrich, aka Ha...

Controversial Classics

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

Warner Brothers, generally considered to be the most realist studio of the studio era, has released a DVD box set celebrating some of its m...

Downfall

Oliver Hirschbiegel

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

Prior to Downfall, there was exactly one German film about Hitler: 1952's The Last Act. This should be taken as an indicator of how difficu...

The Chiefs

Jason Gileno

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2005

To watch the hockey documentary The Chiefs without having watched the 1977 sports classic Slapshot would still be enjoyable but you would b...

She Hate Me

Spike Lee

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

With She Hate Me, Spike Lee has gone so far off the rails that one wonders if he can ever come back. After committing so many lame brained...

SCTV Volume Two

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

This five disc set revisits the 1981 season of SCTV, which was broadcast on both NBC and CBC. SCTV's premise of a low budget imaginary TV n...

Strangers With Candy: Season Three

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

A lot of television's broader comedy requires familiarity for appreciation. And comedy doesn't come much broader than Strangers With Candy:...