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The buzz is that devoted fans of this sci-fi series got so frustrated waiting for this long-time-coming DVD release, they made this the most-bootlegged series ever, with homemade discs burned from videotaped episodes selling like hotcakes on eBay. Additional buzz has it that this set was rushed out in an attempt to cut off that … more…
Aptly named. Like Ben Stein’s deadpan homeroom roll call — “Bueller? Bueller?” — signifying the original slacker’s absence from school, Matthew Broderick (The Producers) is strikingly absent from this new edition of his defining movie. Oh, sure, there are a bunch of new extras that were not on the original DVD release — behind-the-scenes footage … more…
I mean it as the highest of compliments when I say that the return of the campy 1960s daytime serial is deliciously, histrionically goofy: the performances are hilariously awful, the plot ridiculously soapy, the general outrageousness of it just gloriously absurd. This is the entirety of the short-lived 1991 NBC series, 12 episodes of steely-eyed … more…
There’s supposed to be an enticingly seedy quality to everything happening in this “high-tech” thriller, but don’t be fooled: it’s nothing but the artistic pretensions of writer-director Michael Almereyda at play, and they’re really goofy. A teenage girl’s (Liane Balaban: World Traveler) search for her missing sister leads her to David Arquette’s (It’s a Very … more…
Naughty and nice, this TV documentary is little more than an excuse to have the lovely Kim Cattrall (Ice Princess) chat coquettishly to the camera about all things sexual. But there’s a lively playfulness to this exploration of desire and attraction that ensures it’s never lurid, always charming. Explorations of the depiction of phalluses in … more…
It’s kinda the TV version of those cheerfully cornball old-fashioned movies in which someone chirps, “Hey, kids, let’s build a stage in the barn and put on a show!” Here the kids are students at New York’s High School for the Performing Arts, so they’ve already got the stage, but they’re constantly organizing themselves to … more…
Science fiction in the visual realms — film and TV — frequently bears little resemblance to its bookish cousin, which makes this new incarnation of the 1960s anthology show a particular joy. The 21 episodes here, from the series’ 1995 first season on the Showtime cable network, are intelligent, literate, even provocative: just what science … more…
Perhaps if this Sundance Film Festival selection weren’t so intent on establishing its indie bona fides, it could relax enough to be truly engaging. But the self-conscious quirkiness of both the script — by David L. Paterson, based on his play Finger Painting in a Murphy Bed — and the direction, by Adrienne Weiss, puts … more…
Sure, Robert Louis Stevenson’s unforgettable tale of David Balfour’s adventurous coming of age takes place at a specific — and much storied — time and place, but this sublime, riveting 2005 British TV adaptation brings to the screen a grand sense of timelessness that makes the novel such an enduring classic. The high seas of … more…
This made-for-TV update of the classic Broadway show may be the original fractured fairy tale: The Princess and the Pea gets a kooky, musical, feminist spin that is just as fun and fresh today as it must have been when it made its Broadway debut in 1959. Comic queen Carol Burnett reigns as the royal … more…
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