DAREN IN BRIEF
Weekly Short Columns

When you’re a blowhard, sometimes a weekly column is not sufficient to contain all that there is to say. So we bring you Daren in Brief. Short, unedited, irregular posts on topical matters, hot off the presses as it were, coming straight from an overheated mind to your computer.

RECENT COLUMNS

December 23rd - The Best TV of the decade. It was a great 10 years to be alive and watching television.

December 22nd - Today. Best Movie of the Decade Revealed. After a brief stop to clean up a woeful omission.

December 21st - Monday madness in the Best Of list.

December 18th - A Christmas naughty and nice list!

December 17th - Entering television's Best Of big boy phase.

December 16th - How does he keep up this relentless Best Of output?

December 15th - A two-fer Tuesday.

December 14th - A busy Monday on The Best Movies of the Decade list.

December 11th - A familiar foreign import makes the list.

December 10th - All I want for Christmas are the Top 10 Movies of the Decade!

December 9th - 7th best TV show of the decade but #1 with the f-bomb.

December 8th - On the precipice of the decade's Top 10 movies.

December 7th - Monday morning quarterbacking for the Best TV of the Decade.

December 4th - You thought 2 last Friday was great? Then you're going to love today! There will be a pop quiz on Monday.

December 3rd - The television countdown continues. Can you stand the tension?!

December 2nd - If it's Wednesday, it must be another of the decade's best movies!

December 1st - TV's Best begins today.

November 30th - Another Monday. Another brick in the Best Of list.

November 27th - Yer Friday 2-Fer Best Of!

November 25th - The next installment.

November 23rd - The long march toward crowning the King of the Decade begins!

November 20th - Sarah Palin's got me thinking sexy-time!

November 17th - Private broadcasters: a desperately endangered species.

July 24th - Hamlet 2: How to take an interesting script and make a bad movie.

July 8th - The wild box office success of Transformers 2: ROTF suggests society has been officially taken over by robots.

June 23rd - Conservative Hollywood icons go all squishy liberal in Red River.

June 18th - Note to Disney and Pixar: entertain us don't educate us.

June 11th - Canadian American TV. American Canadian TV. Who can tell the difference?

June 9th - Watch Nurse Jackie if only for Edie Falco.

June 5th - Don't GM our private broadcasters! Let's just stand back and watch them die.

June 3rd - Top Gun is tops!

May 26th - Overlooked Movies III.

May 21st - Fox the Abuser.

May 15th - No Doubt.

May 14th - Daren Foster is back, musing.

April 7th - Finally. A championship game not ruined by commercials but by just being a bad game.

April 3rd - Sir Ian McKellen's King Lear is too, too much for the small screen.

March 31st - Don't forget Forgetting Sarah Marshall. (I bet no one's used that tagline before.

March 27th - One more time and let's hear it with feeling!

March 26th - Let's kill all private broadcasters! Again.

March 25th - Let's kill all private broadcasters!

March 18th - Best Canadian Movies.

March 13th - You know how sometimes very worthy movies escape your notice?.

March 10th - 48 hours after Watchmen and I've been thinking.....

March 8th - Rachel Getting Married to the rescue. But what's with the hand held camera

March 7th - Idle thoughts to stay awake during Watchmen.

March 6th - Why WATCHMEN SUCKS!

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