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Who knew? John Grisham doesn’t only write legal potboilers that get turned into popcorn movies — he also writes sentimental coming-of-age dramas that get picked up by Hallmark Hall of Fame and transformed into innocuous, if well-meaning, greeting cards: “Thinking of you during your mildly troubled adolescence.” It’s a summer he’ll remember for the rest … more…
Making fun of really, really, really bad movies never gets old, and so Mystery Science Theater 3000 never wears out its welcome. In this batch, Mike Nelson and his robot pals, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, take on four deserving cinematic atrocities: Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues, a terrifyingly awful monster movie; … more…
Perhaps the crashing-and-burning of this crass attempt to turn box office gold into TV ratings will finally convince Hollywood execs that cross-medium success requires more than merely transferring a title and a star. But probably not. The “all seven episodes” of the “complete hilarious series” contained herein are some of the worst-written material ever to … more…
Archie MacDonald, only son of the Laird of Glenbogle, long ago escaped rural Scotland for trendy London. But when an urgent phone call beckons him home, Archie discovers that although Dad, who is supposed to be on death’s door, is alive and kicking, the manor and the lairdship are now in Archie’s hands, the estate … more…
The preeminent concern of the early 21st century — terrorism — now prompts a refined counterpoint to what’s become an obsession with American TV dramas, and it puts most of them to shame. This BBC series, which aired in the U.S. on the A&E cable network, follows a cadre of elite agents from “Section B” … more…
What if Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X had secretly met at the height of the civil rights movement? Could they have bridged the distance between their very divergent approaches to the fight for public equality? Such an imaginary intrigue is at the heart of this 1991 entry from PBS’s American Playhouse. Emmy and … more…
Thomas Hardy’s bummer of a tale of personal failings, decorous deceptions, and poetically just comeuppances gets an impeccably mounted production from the A&E cable network, which continues its winner strike of stellar adaptations of classic literary works. In a moment of alcohol-fueled weakness, poor farmhand Michael Henchard (an appropriately austere Ciaran Hinds) betrays his wife … more…
Meee-owww! It’s the rise and fall of Martha Stewart from a manipulative little kid, crushing her 8-year-old competition at the bake fair, to a grabby, greedy, calculating Terminator, the boss from hell who’s rude to her fans, worse to her staff, and an absolute bitch with her friends and family. Cybill Shepherd throws herself into … more…
Crude, mean-spirited yucks went mainstream with the debut, in 1987, of Married… with Children, a vicious rejoinder to the domestic tranquility that ruled the primetime sitcoms of the era, like The Cosby Show and Family Ties. The Bundys — put-upon shoe salesman Al (Ed O’Neill), layabout housewife Peg (Katey Sagal), slutty teen Kelly (Christina Applegate), … more…
Dick Wolf’s Law & Order empire expands again with Criminal Intent, his modern-day take on Sherlock Holmes. CI swings the focus around to delve into the mind of the criminal, devoting far more time to the psychology of the law-breaking mind than do the other L&Os — but, in the tradition of Conan Doyle, the … more…
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