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In 1794, at the height of France’s Reign of Terror, aristocrats are being herded into genteel prisons to await the guillotine. Into this bizarre environment, simultaneously resortlike, what with the strolling on the lawn and the courtly manners, and miserable, what with the mass-grave stench of decomposing patricians wafting up from what used to be … more…
This bit of tween fluff is utterly inoffensive and completely harmless — but it’s also simplistic, predictable, and thoroughly unchallenging. Half extremely mild adventure and half schoolkid soap opera, the earnest plotline follows the new girl at a riding school as she tries to find her place in the society of “horse geeks” and snobby … more…
As a teenager, I half-believed that my “real” parents would, any day now, swoop down in their spaceship and rescue me from dreary ol’ planet Earth. Who’d have guessed that such trite teen angst could serve as the basis of a network TV series? Not that it’s a good basis… This snooze of series posits … more…
Not your typical rock ‘n’ roll movie, this is a bitter, angry, down-to-earth flick about a bitter, angry, down-to-earth rock gal who’s starting to wonder whether it isn’t simply too pathetic to be still waiting for a shot at the big time on the edge of 40. Cult favorite Gina Gershon is at the top … more…
It was shocking in its day, perhaps — its day being 1978 — but today Louis Malle’s idyllic, almost documentary-style depiction of a child prostitute can’t hope to be as provocative: One need only look at prepubescent Britney Spears fans to find young girls who are far more overtly sexualized than 12-year-old Brooke Shields is … more…
Patricia Routledge, one of Britain’s most beloved actresses — her “Hyacinth Bucket” character from the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances is practically a national institution — and playwright Alan Bennett, one of the premiere names in contemporary British theater, have teamed up several times on one-woman shows. Three of them, originally produced for BBC television, are … more…
Who knew? John Grisham doesn’t only write legal potboilers that get turned into popcorn movies — he also writes sentimental coming-of-age dramas that get picked up by Hallmark Hall of Fame and transformed into innocuous, if well-meaning, greeting cards: “Thinking of you during your mildly troubled adolescence.” It’s a summer he’ll remember for the rest … more…
Making fun of really, really, really bad movies never gets old, and so Mystery Science Theater 3000 never wears out its welcome. In this batch, Mike Nelson and his robot pals, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, take on four deserving cinematic atrocities: Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues, a terrifyingly awful monster movie; … more…
Perhaps the crashing-and-burning of this crass attempt to turn box office gold into TV ratings will finally convince Hollywood execs that cross-medium success requires more than merely transferring a title and a star. But probably not. The “all seven episodes” of the “complete hilarious series” contained herein are some of the worst-written material ever to … more…
Archie MacDonald, only son of the Laird of Glenbogle, long ago escaped rural Scotland for trendy London. But when an urgent phone call beckons him home, Archie discovers that although Dad, who is supposed to be on death’s door, is alive and kicking, the manor and the lairdship are now in Archie’s hands, the estate … more…
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