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As a teenager, I half-believed that my “real” parents would, any day now, swoop down in their spaceship and rescue me from dreary ol’ planet Earth. Who’d have guessed that such trite teen angst could serve as the basis of a network TV series? Not that it’s a good basis… This snooze of series posits … more…
Not your typical rock ‘n’ roll movie, this is a bitter, angry, down-to-earth flick about a bitter, angry, down-to-earth rock gal who’s starting to wonder whether it isn’t simply too pathetic to be still waiting for a shot at the big time on the edge of 40. Cult favorite Gina Gershon is at the top … more…
It was shocking in its day, perhaps — its day being 1978 — but today Louis Malle’s idyllic, almost documentary-style depiction of a child prostitute can’t hope to be as provocative: One need only look at prepubescent Britney Spears fans to find young girls who are far more overtly sexualized than 12-year-old Brooke Shields is … more…
Patricia Routledge, one of Britain’s most beloved actresses — her “Hyacinth Bucket” character from the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances is practically a national institution — and playwright Alan Bennett, one of the premiere names in contemporary British theater, have teamed up several times on one-woman shows. Three of them, originally produced for BBC television, are … more…
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…
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