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Be very afraid: It’s Goldie Hawn with a twang. Aw, Hawn’s (The Banger Sisters) fine, actually, as an ex-con mom frantic to save her child from being adopted away from her — they frown on felony moms in the state of Texas, apparently — but it kinda smells like a Lifetime MOW in here. This … more…
The annual holiday assault has arrived, and don’t think “assault” isn’t the right word; this is but the first dementedly wrongheaded satire on family and togetherness we’re in for this season. Ben Affleck (Jersey Girl) gets whacked in the noggin with a snow shovel and, in this neurologically altered state, decides to hire the awful … more…
It tries so hard to be wicked, does this “sexy” detective series, one of the 18 billion variations on the cop show producer Stephen J. Cannell pumped out during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Cannell’s series almost invariably did well in ratings game — this one ran for eight season from 1991 to ’98, first … more…
Whites, blacks, men, women, gays, straights: No one escapes the razor wit of producer-star Keenan Ivory Wayans’s (White Chicks) sketch comedy show, still pertinent and relevant nearly a decade and a half later. Groundbreaking not just for its interracial cast but for its truly integrated attitude, these 22-minute episodes, which feel longer than they are, … more…
Chances are you grew up with Sweetknuckle Junction, the beloved children’s television show, and spent happy times with Junction Jack the train engineer and singing Dottie Sunshine, with Rochester Rabbit and Count Blah. Or maybe not, since the show exists only in the demented, crude, very funny world of Greg the Bunny, which should probably … more…
Oh dear lord, the hearts and the rainbows and the giggling and the hard plastic candy-colored CGI bears singing — someone make it stop! This horrifying attempt at children’s entertainment puts Care Bears, those schmaltzy-sweet cartoon characters designed for nothing beyond moving merchandise to toddlers, in all manner of jeopardy: racing in jet cars, flying … more…
Horror films have their own special guidelines when it comes to plausibility: basically, there aren’t any. And the Japanese flick *Ju-on: The Grudge,* which had a limited American release earlier this year, takes even greater liberties in the credibility area than most. Fortunately, writer/director Takashi Shimizu has enough tricks up his sleeve to make you forget that he’s not making one whit of sense. Logic is never a strong deciding factor, anyway, when you’re looking for a flick to give you goosebumps, which this one does, if only in moderate measure. Plus, creepy as it sporadically is, you can poke fun at it, too: The rage is coming from inside the house!
We’ve seen this kind of thing before — The Dysfunctional Family Get-Together, Black-Comedy Division — but this one has a cast to die for and a bitter poignancy that imparts the sly and frequently mean-spirited wit with genuine feeling. Edmund Collins (Rip Torn: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) has died, leaving behind a suicidal widow … more…
But as unlikely as this may sound, *Team America: World Police,* with all its screaming, flailing outrage, all its deliberate provocations, all its, well, puppets, is really, deep down beneath all the vulgarity, a poignant, mournful search for that missing middle ground, one that tries to burn away all the hypocrisy and all the wishful thinking about the whole big mess that is the world to come up with a sad, pragmatic reality.
When every brain-dead, idea-bereft movie and moronic TV ad for toothpaste or whatever thinks it’s cool to go all *Matrix*-y on us, I guess it takes the genre that invented the cool slo-mo kung-fu fighting stuff to remind us how to do it right.
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