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There’s no question that Roger Kabler is a startlingly gifted impersonator, with a repertoire that runs from John Travolta and Robert DeNiro to Robin Williams and Richard Dreyfuss, but this independently produced film is little more than an excuse to string together Kabler’s routines. The fictional story, “based on” Kabler’s “experiences,” follows the breakdown of … more…
Oh my goodness, it’s one of my fantasies: Johnny Depp in a policeman’s uniform. He doesn’t last in the blues much beyond the opening minutes of the pilot of this powerfully influential 80s TV series — with that baby-face, he’s a joke on the streets but a hit in the undercover squad headquartered at the … more…
Tru Davies works at the morgue — graveyard shift, of course — where the dead people talk to her. Not all of them, just the “unnaturally” dead ones, the ones that she can jump back in time and save from their fate worse than… well, exactly as bad as death. It’s The Sixth Sense meets … more…
This women-behind-bars serial drama, a cult favorite around the world, arrives finally on DVD, but the package is more constrained than the show’s characters. The series, which originally ran in Australia from 1979 to 1986, was shot on video and has held up remarkably well… from a technical standpoint, at least. While the picture remains … more…
The beloved children’s book by Eleanor H. Porter gets a transplant from early-20th-century Vermont to Edwardian England in this British production, and that’s just fine: the indefatigable cheerfulness of its young heroine remains intact, and that’s all that matters. When the newly orphaned Pollyanna (delightful newcomer Georgina Terry) goes to live with her dour aunt, … more…
So far, no gorgeous amnesiac who just blew back into town has turned out to be someone’s long-lost spouse/child/evil twin, but there’s little else that could make this hit Fox series any sudsier than it already is. Mere months after the final episode of its debut season was broadcast, it arrives on DVD, a hedonistic, … more…
Family: It’s what Thanksgiving is all about, isn’t it? I mean, besides the waiting for the arrival of Santa to wrap up the Macy’s parade in the morning and the gorging in the afternoon and the massive cleanup in the evening.
Writer/director Paul Feig, the Emmy-nominated creator of TV’s Freaks and Geeks, brings us a different kind of outcast kid in David, a 12-year-old orphan escapee from a post-WWII Bulgarian labor camp journeying across Europe alone. In the best tradition of old-fashioned family films — the kind without fart jokes and precocious gradeschoolers, the kind that … more…
A photographer drives dusty desert roads, stopping occasionally to shoot crumbling ruins and barren landscapes — another example, one imagines right then, but not an unwelcome one, of the feature-length loneliness-and-desolation metaphors that sear achingly through contemporary Iranian film till you can feel the pain of an astoundingly creative industry cut off from the wider … more…
“Priests can’t deny their sexuality, gay or otherwise.” Whoa. And it’s a man of the cloth who utters this dangerous line. Double whoa. It’s only the future of the largest religious organization on the planet that filmmaker John Deery chose for his writing and directing debut, and the result is a film both astonishing in … more…
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