Articles by J.M. McNab

Community: The Complete Second Season

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2011

When it first began, NBC's Community proved to be a sharp, quickly paced, character-driven comedy that was enjoyable, though not exceptiona...

Drive

Nicolas Winding Refn

PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2011

Drive feels like a '70s loner film filtered through '80s action movie sensibilities, but set in the present day. If Michael Mann were to re...

Drive

Nicolas Winding Refn

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2011

Drive feels like a '70s loner film filtered through '80s action movie sensibilities, but set in the present day. If Michael Mann were to re...

X-Men: First Class

Matthew Vaughn

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2011

While many people may have initially rolled their eyes at the thought of another in what's becoming an epidemic of prequels, X-Men: First C...

Biutiful [Blu-Ray]

Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu

PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2011

Abandoning the fractured timelines and narrative irregularities of his previous two films (21 Grams and Babel), Alejandro González Iñárritu...

Treme: The Complete First Season [Blu-Ray]

PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2011

It's no small task to try and follow-up an enormous success. While David Simon's The Wire wasn't commercially successful when it originally...

The Walking Dead: Season 1

PUBLISHED Mar 8, 2011

Not many TV shows would open their pilot episode with the protagonist graphically shooting a ten-year old girl in the head, even before the...

You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger

Woody Allen

PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2011

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger may not rank as one of Woody Allen's best films, but it is one of the better movies of 2010, and with Wo...