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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…
“The Mystery of Pirate Cove.” “The Secret of the Jade Kwan Yin.” “The Flickering Torch Mystery.” “The Secret of the Whispering Walls.” Oh my god, oh my god, ohmygod! The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew helped make me the nerd that I am today — not just the books, though I had a big long … more…
It’s not really appropriate for kids, this French fairy tale — the subtitles will try their patience — but grownups enchanted by Disney’s Beauty & the Beast (and The Princess Bride) will delight in it. Disney’s animated musical fantasy owes a lot, in fact, to this live-action one: director Jacques Demy gave a classic story … more…
This exercise in stream-of-geeky-consciousness insanity and slightly disreputable animation manipulation defies explanation — you’re either in the cult, or you’re not — but here goes nothing anyway. Once upon a time, in the 1960s, there was a Hanna Barbera cartoon called Space Ghost and Dino Boy, which was quite bad and which hardly anyone remembers … more…
Man, they weren’t kidding when they called it Sin City. This is a vile place, oozing corruption from every orifice, where integrity and honesty in the institutions of authority have long since fled. This is a place where a man or a woman wielding a gun or a knife (and they all do) makes no threats — he or she just proceeds instantly to inflicting the worst. This is a place where there is no time for threats: you hesitate, you die. This is no place you want to be.
These reviews have moved — sorry for the inconvenience. Beauty Shop The Brak Show: Volume 1 Donkey Skin Doogie Howser, M.D.: Season One The Flame Trees of Thika The Greatest American Hero: Season One The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries: Season One Highway to Heaven: Season One It’s All Gone Pete Tong The Jamie Foxx … more…
No Wood There’s a certain level of expectation built into a Sci-Fi Channel Original Film. One tunes into expecting — nay, hoping — to see laughably incoherent plots, full of holes and aping, in a cheap, made-for-TV way, some cheap, made-for-the-big-screen SF flick; ridiculously bad FX, replete with awful bluescreening and obvious CGI that some … more…
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