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Studio Ghibli, the anime studio founded by groundbreaking filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, is famous for producing films that are extraordinarily imaginative and passionately heartfelt, like the recent Spirited Away. And this 1994 film from Ghibli is a stunning example of the depths of emotion and the heights of fancy animated film can achieve. … more…
The jokes are awful: “That’s not the Queen Mother, that’s my mother from Queens!” The clichés are dreadful: Rich people are fake and repressed, blue-collar types are fresh and honest, and kids are precociously mean little buggers. And that voice! Fran Drescher’s Flushing-inflected diction could strip paint, and that seems to be the overarching goal … more…
Comic books started growing up and having serious fun with this enchanting series in which the romantic saga of the Man of Steel and Lois Lane takes center stage and gets a screwball-comedy spin… and it’s pulled off with such elegant, witty panache that you can’t believe this isn’t the way the Superman story has … more…
Lively and charged with a furious nostalgia, this in-your-face documentary about some of the roughest women you’ll ever meet is a vivid exploration of a mostly forgotten sport-cum-entertainment: lady wrestling of the 1940s and 50s. Some of the top stars of the era — Killem Gillem, Penny Banner, The Fabulous Moolah, and others — look … more…
“Oh my god, they’re gonna die. Siegfried and Roy are gonna die,” John Goodman (Beyond the Sea) the white lion intones boredly and sarcastically in the first episode of this frequently bizarre and always tiresome animated series. He’s watching the Vegas showmen’s schtick from offstage, waiting for his cue to enter, and this is his … more…
There are moments of ironic wit and cleverness among the 26 episodes of the TV adaptation of the longest-running comic-book series. There just aren’t enough of them. One “action-packed” story is fairly indistinguishable from another as Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, Human Torch, and The Thing battle supervillain Doctor Doom — there are only so … more…
Fans of the Divine Miss M will certainly enjoy this opportunity to listen to her famous friends — Barry Manilow, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, Bruce Vilanch, and many others — rave about how wonderful she is, interspersed with clips from her performances on stage and screen. But it’s hard to imagine anyone else getting caught … more…
This handsome BBC/Masterpiece Theater production toodles along elegantly, all period costumes and posh accents and people being beastly to one another in the most refined way… until it turns so shockingly vicious that you’re riveted, unable to believe what you’re seeing. The hints were there all along, of course, in this original dangerous liaison, based … more…
Beyond The Da Vinci Code? Not so much beyond: more like a cashing-in, a ride on the coattails of the immensely popular book. This hastily thrown together History Channel documentary purports to examine the “truths” and “controversies” of Dan Brown’s bestselling novel, but actually it just tosses out some elementary comparative mythology, a few talking-head … more…
You see it all the time in the movies: someone meets an attractive stranger at the airport check-in, at the bar near the gate, or in the seat next to you on the plane. It never happens in real life, of course — the people you see when you travel are inevitably middle-aged couples in matching track suits, surly teenagers who never take their headphones off, or weird serial-killer types who bring their own smelly snacks.
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