Articles by James Keast

The Office Season 4

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

This past season of TV has become a game of buyer beware for fans looking to add full season box sets to their collection. After last winte...

Sports Night: Complete Series Tenth Anniversary Edition

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2008

As creator and writer Aaron Sorkin notes in a retrospective featurette, if Sports Night were on TV today, it wouldn’t seem that notable. In...

Mad Men Season One

PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2008

Most period-set entertainments make one immediate claim: that it’s not about the setting, it’s about the characters. Mad Men — the AMC dram...

Redbelt

David Mamet

PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2008

Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a principled fighter in a relatively obscure discipline — he eschews professional matches due to their com...

Tropic Thunder

Ben Stiller

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2008

The umbrella of "parody” shields a lot of complicated issues, and Tropic Thunder has faced plenty of inclement political weather on its w...

Comedy Central's TV Funhouse

PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2008

Being innovative in comedy usually has one reward: obscurity. Sure, you’ll be cited by the more successful folks who perfect your formula b...

From Aesop to Camelot and Beyond

Familiar Fables Make For Brilliant Adventure

PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2008

Even if you’ve never read a single page of Bill Willingham’s brilliant comic series Fables, you already know all the players — if not exact...

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Covers of the World

PUBLISHED Jul 28, 2008

The Joshua tree itself fell down in 2000, but thanks to Word Magazine’s cool online app (www.wordmagazine.co.uk/album_atlas), you can pinpo...