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The sign outside Dublin’s residential-care facility Carrigmore reads “A special home for special people,” and director Damien O’Donnell makes sure you don’t miss it as this triumph-of-the-human-spirit- slash disease-of-the-week flick opens. So you know you’re in for either a sappy valentine to “special” people, or — more likely, considering the bitter Irish sense of humor … more…
Finally, an “erotic thriller” for people who like the ludicrous, threadbare plots and stilted, preposterous acting of bad porn but just don’t want to deal with all the boring explicit sex that goes along with it. Laughably cheap and cheesy, this ridiculous tale of infidelity, murder, and alleged sexual obsession is beset by coincidence, “sexy” … more…
Hooray! Now all those women who had their sense of sexuality perverted by the ‘fairy tale’ of *Pretty Woman* have the perfect twisted fantasy movie cure for their messed-up love lives: Don’t wait anymore for a man to come along and purchase you — buy him instead!
White noise is the soundtrack for this grimly elegant urban fairy tale, as if soft grumbling complaints were all the attention the world could spare its four child heroes, lost in the big city.
Fans of offbeat British humor will gobble up this BBC production, with all its elegantly silly and piquantly observant social satire, and they’ll be tickled all the more by how it comes by its stunning insight into the romantic games men and women play and the snobbery of late-Victorian England: It was written, with clueless … more…
No, the other one: This is the mid-1980s do-over, not the classic of early television, and yet even though you kinda remember it being pretty cheesy, it’s still compulsively watchable. The very first story of the very first episode hints at why: It stars Bruce Willis, it’s based on a story by Harlan Ellison story, … more…
“I would like to smoke crack more than anything in the world right now,” reports one recovering addict here. What keeps him from giving in to that urge? One tough Irish-American broad: Sister Helen Travis, a force of nature you cross at your own peril. Yup, she’s a nun. Family tragedy drove Travis to the … more…
If you never go anywhere without your trusty pocketknife and can’t look at a paper clip without grinning, then you’re probably a MacGyver fan. It’s nothing to be ashamed of — the show was a worldwide phenomenon, and how many TV characters have seen their names turned into verbs? Hundreds of years from now, when … more…
Gossip and rumor and love and jealousy and obsession are all dressed up in period costume and going to all the familiar places in this BBC production of an Anthony Trollope novel. Four hour-long episodes follow the emotional misadventures of Louis and Emily Trevelyan (Oliver Dimsdale, and Laura Fraser: A Christmas Carol) — he thinks … more…
I feel like a real heel for not being able to endorse this film enthusiastically and wholeheartedly, but there we have it. This day-in-the-life of a Brooklyn diner, a neighborhood institution, sets for itself the noble goal of “challenging” conventional assumptions about race, ethnicity, gender, age, and religion on a day in which the Jewish … more…
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