The new series of Curb Your Enthusiasm doesn’t just mark the return of one of TV’s best comedies, but also the return of a modern-day hero Here’s a test for any man. You can judge what sort of person you are by how much you agree with Larry David in the HBO comedy Curb Your…
If you ask people who’ve fought in a war, they’ll often tell you that it’s not like it’s portrayed in the movies. For a start, the noise is different. Hollywood creates the noise people think war sounds like and gives them that audio experience, rather than what you really hear among the bodies and bullets.…
From the makers of The Wire comes Generation Kill, one of the finest accounts of modern warfare. Words Matt Pomroy ‘Eleven thousand pounds of ordnance dropped,’ ponders one Marine, in post analysis of an air strike he called in, ‘and we didn’t hit any armour. Didn’t destroy any villages either. I guess that sort of…
The Wire: Season 3 Everyone from Time Magazine and Newsweek to Entertainment Weekly has called this hard-hitting HBO drama about the battle between police and drug dealing gangs the best series on television. Far from being just another cop show, it examines life in the modern American city. It’s often bleak and realistic portrayal of…
After a decade playing the same character on Friends, Lisa Kudrow makes a return to the world of sitcoms in The Comeback. Minor celebrities, so desperate to cling to the last vestiges of fame, that they’re happy to appear on reality TV shows are nothing new. In fact, it’s becoming so annoyingly frequent that I…
Matt Pomroy 