Articles by James Keast

True Blood: The Complete First Season

PUBLISHED May 29, 2009

Based on its seemingly campy premise — vampires "come out" of the coffin to reveal that they've been living among us for centuries &m...

Lynch's Straight Stories

PUBLISHED May 24, 2009

Filmmaker David Lynch made his name with surrealistic journeys into the subconscious, but there's also his sweet, sentimental side fascinat...

Caprica

Jeffrey Reiner

PUBLISHED May 13, 2009

Now that the journey for Battlestar Galactica has ended, Caprica joins the Sci-Fi Channel family via this two-hour movie/series pilot set 5...

JCVD

Mabrouk El Mechri

PUBLISHED May 7, 2009

JCVD may not be the film that causes you to completely re-evaluate the career of '80s Belgian action hero Jean-Claude Van Damme, but you've...

Andy Richter Controls the Universe: The Complete Series

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2009

Erstwhile and future Conan O'Brien sidekick Andy Richter has embodied TV's latest clichés — critically acclaimed, low rated, c...

Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter/Under the Hood

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2009

Give them credit for this much at least: while the studio may have taken on an impossible task in trying to please the geek community by ad...

Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2009

In the short months between being an unheralded, Indian-set movie by an English director with a knack for stylistic impact to being an Osca...

Synecdoche, New York

Charlie Kaufman

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2009

The quest to make art that is challenging, ambitious and original has dominated the writing of Charlie Kaufman, seen in his screenplays for...