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It’s the show that made Middle America comfortable with gay stereotypes, and watching them pile up episode after episode is nauseating. It’s the flip side of the power of TV-on-DVD: The good stuff gets more intense and more fun when consumed in whole-season chunks, but the bad stuff gets worse, its sins magnified and amplified. … more…
It may just be the finest prime-time drama ever to grace the airwaves. The smart, snappy zingers of office politics meet the Gordian knots of global politics behind the scenes at the White House of the Bartlet administration, full of intelligent, compassion people you can’t help but wish were more than the stuff of civic … more…
It’s not quite the feminist nightmare it seems to be, but almost. As in most anime, it’s a Japanese schoolgirl causing all the to-do — here, it’s Momoko, who turns out to be the “legendary love angel Wedding Peach” in her “beautiful, magical wedding dress” destined to rescue humanity from “devils” who want to take … more…
When David Powlett-Jones returned from the Great War, a teaching position at posh Bamfylde, a boys’ boarding school, seemed an unlikely choice for a shell-shocked veteran. But as fans of this adored miniseries know, he couldn’t have made a better choice. Finally on DVD and video for the first time since its original airing on … more…
It’s 1970s pop culture in a bottle. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, one of the most popular shows of the decade, parades guest stars like a who’s who of the time: Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Tina Turner, Harvey Korman, Howard Cosell, Glen Campbell, and The Jackson 5. This best-of set collects nine original, unedited … more…
Nearly half a century on, Richard Quine’s satirical romantic comedy still has all the bite it must have had in 1956, when it was adapted from the Broadway play by George S. Kaufman and Howard Teichman. Judy Holliday, in what was her standard not-so-ditzy, not-so-dumb blonde role, crashes the annual stockholders’ meeting of International Project, … more…
Nora Ephron’s delightful film is perhaps the epitome of the modern romantic comedy to which many a movie has aspired and few have even approached in its warmth, naturalness, and genuine spirit of amour.
You’ll never see an all-star cast like the one assembled here again, the primary reason being that they’re here to complain — justifiable so — about the lack of roles available to them, among other things. Actress Rosanna Arquette, inspired by Debra Winger’s very early retirement from show biz, set out to interview as many … more…
This tired and rather pointless flick can be called “inspired” only in that it is “inspired by a true story.” Lenny (Jon Abrahams), a young auto mechanic who picks up some extra dough as a mob driver, finds himself in the middle of the kidnapping of a Los Angeles crime lord. We’re meant to fear … more…
We knew Saturday Night Live had been long in decline, and now the evidence has been neatly packaged for us as compilations of clips highlighting the individual work of some of the current, excruciatingly unfunny cast. They’re like catalogs of shame, and here it’s Molly Shannon with egg on her face. We start out with … more…
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