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Visually, Cartoon Network’s kiddie entry Ed, Edd n Eddy is delightfully gonzo, its inventive animation style and garish colors reflecting the adolescent confusion of its identically named boy heroes. But their goofy misadventures hold little appeal for grownup cartoon fans — this one is pretty much strictly for the kiddies. In these six brief 10-minute … more…
It’s the series that launched Melissa Joan Hart as a star, and if you’re saying “Who?” you’re not alone. It’s not as if this Nickoeleon sitcom for peewees boded well for its then-adolescent headliner in its 1991 debut season, when throughout 13 episodes, Hart’s just-barely-teenaged Clarissa broke the fourth wall to whine directly at the … more…
It’s a bit of a labeling error to call this series from cable network A&E and Britain’s London Weekend Television a “reality” show, unless you’re talking about the original reality genre: the documentary. There’s nothing of the exhibitionist game show about the surprisingly engrossing minidoc that is each of these standalone episode — no one … more…
Oh, how can I possibly resist Apocalyptic cheese like NBC’s *Revelations*? It’s goofy Jesus stuff *and* it’s ridiculous prime-time ‘drama.’ It’s movie actors slumming on TV *and* it’s a finely calculated mercenary attempt to get all those consumers of *The Da Vinci Code* back in front of the boob tube, where they belong. What’s *not* to have a love/hate/despairing-for-the-culture relationship with?
This isn’t just a movie. You don’t have to have been married by a justice of the peace in Jedi robes or have named your dog Boba or have spent the last three weeks on a line outside the Ziegfeld or Grauman’s Chinese Theater to feel that. If you’re any kind of geek and you’re around my age — 35 — you’ve spent pretty much your whole life waiting for this moment. It was nine years ago — 1996 — that George Lucas announced he’d be making a new *Star Wars* trilogy, and if you’re like me, hearing this was like being eight years old again and being told to wait patiently for summer vacation or your birthday. It won’t be finished until *2005*? How can I possibly be expected to wait for that kind of eternity to find out how Darth Vader becomes Darth Vader?
If you were a Star Wars completist dork like me as a kid — I had to have all the action figures, including all the cantina characters I didn’t even remember being in the film and all the characters in their different costumes, like Leia in her Bespin getup — then you’ll probably want to … more…
Here’s what you have to do in order to survive *The Star Wars Holiday Special*: Don’t watch it. If you must, then 1) Have alcohol or some other inebriating substance close to hand — a rock to bang against your skull will do in a pinch. And 2) Remember that your tender 10-year-old self probably witnessed this atrocity the one time it aired on TV to unsuspecting, nay, *eager* audiences, and suffered such psychological trauma that your brain blocked off the memory in order to spare you further harm; know that you may suddenly experience violent flashbacks to Christmas 1978 as that mental wound is viciously reopened.
Just when you think the genre of the humiliation comedy can’t reach any new depths of repugnance and depravity, along comes Will Ferrell, the doofus king of self-debasement in the name of entertainment, to prove you wrong.
With its clear and obvious choices — think Eddie Izzard’s ‘cake? or death?’ bit — *Unleashed* really is a fairy tale next to *Crash,* where half the time when you think you’ve got a grasp on what’s the ‘right’ thing to do and the ‘right’ way to live, you turn out to be wrong, even if the other guy is wrong, too.
Is the movie silly? Yup. Even maybe kinda dumb? You betcha. I laughed anyway — I admit it. I think maybe it’s cuz I’ve missed Martin Short all these long years since SCTV. Remember Ed Grimley? I loved him. His Nathan Therm on Saturday Night Live? (Of course I remember Nathan Therm? What makes you … more…
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