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The term “outside artist” has never been so apropos, or so wistfully sad, as it is in the case of Henry Darger, who spent his childhood in a home for “feeble-minded children” and his adulthood in near seclusion, working as a janitor and, in secret, on a 15,000-page novel with accompanying — and epic — … more…
When precisely 4400 people — some of whom have been missing for half a century — appear in the Pacific Northwest in a spectacular cosmic event, unaltered and unaged and with no memories of where they’ve been, the world is stunned and mystified and afraid. Were they abducted by aliens? Why were they returned? Set … more…
Ah, blast from my geeky childhood! I cut my SF teeth on stuff like Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and now Buck has arrived on DVD, with a vengeance, you might say. This is 30 hours of chunky homestyle sciffy goofiness, all 32 episodes from the 1979-81 run of the show … more…
Embrace the snark. If you still desperately miss MST3K as much as I do, then rejoicing is the only response to this sixth collection of mad-cinematic experiments. Hapless but sneakily hilarious janitor Joel Robinson (Joel Hodgson, creator of the series and one of TV’s unappreciated genius innovators) and his robot pals survive forced watching of … more…
Oh, but this is a sucker punch of a movie, harsh and sere and so thoroughly unsentimental that it seems to have active contempt for lesser movies that pander to the audience’s desire to walk out of the theater feeling good and happy and that all is right in the world. This is like winning the lottery and getting hit by a train on your way to cash in your ticket. This is not for anyone who feels the need to escape real life at the multiplex. This *is* real life, as real as film gets. You are warned.
This CBS TV movie, charming and heartwarming Christmas hokum personified, introduces us to the Walton family, those hearty folk of good pioneer stock soldiering their way through the Great Depression, poor but happy. It’s Christmas Eve, 1933, and Momma (Patricia Neal) and the passel of kids await the return of Father, who’s off working miles … more…
As excruciating as this film is, it’s almost a pleasure to be reminded that vapid pop stars who think they can act are not a particular failing of the MTV era. Why, a quarter of a century ago, Marie Osmond pouted and sulked her way through this 1978 TV movie as Beth Atherton, an orphan … more…
The voice cast of this animated British kid flick is an Anglophile’s dream: Kate Winslet (Finding Neverland), Michael Gambon (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), Juliet Stevenson (Being Julia), Rhys Ifans (Vanity Fair), Jane Horrocks (Chicken Run). Pity that not a one of them distinguishes him- or herself — the voice performances are so … more…
Oh my goodness, it’s one of my fantasies: Johnny Depp in a policeman’s uniform. He doesn’t last in the blues much beyond the opening minutes of the pilot of this powerfully influential 80s TV series — with that baby-face, he’s a joke on the streets but a hit in the undercover squad headquartered at the … more…
Tru Davies works at the morgue — graveyard shift, of course — where the dead people talk to her. Not all of them, just the “unnaturally” dead ones, the ones that she can jump back in time and save from their fate worse than… well, exactly as bad as death. It’s The Sixth Sense meets … more…
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