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If there can be said to be an “on a mission from God” genre of dramatic television, then Highway to Heaven inaugurated it with its 1984 debut, now reproduced in all its saintly glory on DVD. This is not challenging drama, and to call it melodrama is being kind — this is comfort TV of … more…
This 15-year-old series holds up extremely well today, with a level of sophistication and a surprising wisdom that ranks it among one of TV’s better explorations of adolescent angst. The delightful Neil Patrick Harris (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) brings clever insight to Doogie, 16-year-old doctor and all-around boy genius, and through 26 … more…
So — and this would have been around the time the 1979 *Amityville Horror* came out — there was this kid I went to elementary school with on Long Island, and he used to regale us with stories of the real Amityville Horror house, because he used to live on the same street, and this, in the annals of kiddom, was as good as having wielded a murderous axe himself.
Why did the most successful marauding army in the history of the world, the Mongols, turn away from fresh, guaranteed conquest and head for home at the height of their plundering? ‘They found out their leader died,’ high-school student Pete Winters says to his summer-school teacher, with an air of discovery that has nothing to do with the scholarly. He probably doesn’t realize it — Pete is even more sullen and withdrawn, and less self-aware, than most teenagers, though with good reason — but his insight comes from his own personal experience with spirit-crushing discouragement and despair.
If the word ‘pitch’ weren’t coincidentally associated with both football and baseball, allowing the producers of this new film to retain the title, you’d never know there was any relationship between the two films.
Sometimes you want reality from The Movies, and sometimes you just want a big ol’ cartoony popcorny action adventure flick that’s exciting and makes you laugh and doesn’t require deep thinking but also isn’t so stupid that it makes you want to cry. And I got a huge kick out of this one. So there.
If government conspiracies and supernatural chic were all the rage on the air in the 1990s — it seems you couldn’t go wrong aping The X-Files — then The Pretender was the show for those who wanted a kinder, gentle top-secret black-ops drama, one without all that uncomfortable paranoia and existential unease. Jarod (the androidlike … more…
It’s Souped-Up Car for the Poor Guy, a reality show for young swains desperate to impress the world with their wheels but too destitute to pour twenty thousand bucks into their automobiles. And so descends fairy godrapper Xzibit, a “hip-hop impresario and car enthusiast” who, with the help of the “world-famous” body shop (who knew … more…
Romantic comedies don’t come any blander or more generic than this one. Four adult sisters come together for the wedding of one of them, and the predictably disparate paths they’ve taken cause mild friction, until it no longer does. Niki (Brooke Langton) is an actress, starring in a Baywatch–type boobfest; Chrissy (screenwriter and director Vanessa … more…
Jamie Foxx’s recent Oscar win for his terrific performance in Ray is sure to bring a wider audience for his earlier sitcom… and that’s too bad, because even small doses of this minstrel show are enough to spoil the memory of his more recent and far superior work. Constituting an embarrassing carnival the likes of … more…
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