Subject: Ricky Jay

• Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women

  March 3, 1994

• Money Changes Everything

  April 23, 1998

• The Best DVDs of 2007

  They made old movies feel new again

  December 27, 2007

• Welcome to the Grand Illusion

  Memento director plumbs the depths of magic and loss

  October 19, 2006

• The Illusionist

  Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

  August 17, 2006

• Dammit, Mamet!

  Based on Spartan, it would seem the master of macho dialogue has lost his touch

  March 11, 2004

• Botched Job

  David Mamet plots and schemes, then blows his own Heist

  November 8, 2001

• The Con's on You

  May 28, 2009

• FlashForward: From Awesomely Bad to Boringly Bad

  Spoiler alert: I'm half-assing this one! Because for reals, if you're still watching FlashForward expecting a great show, you've got problems. But if you keep reading this blog expecting the torrent of bad TV I watch every week to drive me crazy, well, you just might be in luck. The episode opened with Dead Black Agent's letter being delivered to Celia, the woman he'd kill according to his vision. Cue a montage of everyone going ape kaka about how the future can be changed. They usually save

  November 13, 2009