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A familiar modern Robin Hood story gets a vicious kick of authenticity in this true tale of a white cop in 1970s apatheid South Africa who goes rogue. Andre Stander (The Punisher‘s Thomas Jane, in the performance that may finally earn him the recognition he deserves) was the youngest captain on the Johannesburg police force … more…
The story of Australian cult figure Kelly — a 19th-century Robin Hood–esque outlaw, child of an underclass of Irish immigrants — is a tricky film, punctuated by bursts of staccato surrealism and bitter humor, hard to love unreservedly but easy to appreciate for its ambition. Heath Ledger (The Order) finds a wary, cautious groove as … more…
It’s End Times thrills for secularists in X-Files creator Chris Carter’s crime drama, which explores millennial paranoia from a decidedly worldly perspective while also managing to maintain an unrelenting, uncanny creepiness. It’s clear, throughout these 22 episodes from the series’s debut 1996-7 season, that retired FBI criminal profiler Frank Black has some paranormal simpatico with … more…
It’s hard to imagine that this idiotic sitcom was ever intended for adult consumption: its putative heroines come across, at best, as mentally retarded, and at worst, as whiny, shallow bimbos. But that’s hardly a surprise: producer Garry Marshall would go on to make a career of denigrating the female gender with films like The … more…
“A sound like someone trying not to make a sound.” Four-year-old Ruth (Elle Fanning: Daddy Day Care) isn’t describing the shushed fury consuming the adults around her, but she might well be. Her parents’ marriage is collapsing, quietly and at long last, the strain of life-altering tragedy finally catching up to them, but they barely … more…
Conan’s nightly show may be hit or miss, but this compilation of his best-of, on the occasion of his first ten years on the air, is a riotous testament to his ongoing, quirky appeal. Practically a sendup of the talk show, Late Night with… here proves to be less “a decade of shameless ass-kissing,” as … more…
How did I miss getting into Sliders the first time around, when it aired on Fox and then the Sci-Fi Channel? It’s totally my kind of show: escapist and science fictional, and there’s a really cute guy, that chubby kid from Stand by Me who grew up so nice. College student Quinn (the no-longer-chubby Jerry … more…
All I remember is how awesome that car was. C’mon: I was a 13-year-old geek, and a benign Hal in a black Trans Am was too cool. But ohmigod, how deliciously, 80s-y awful is Knight Rider today! It’s like the unholy love child of two genres that filled the airwaves in the Carter and Reagan … more…
Do I look fat in this sitcom to you? Obvious and distasteful, this working-class “comedy” relies entirely on class and gender stereotypes to elicit laughs in the same way that one pulls teeth. Doug Heffernan (Kevin James), a professional package-deliverer complete with ugly brown uniform, is like a real-life, unironic Homer Simpson, but his wife, … more…
Nine years after its multiple-Emmy-winning debut season, ER‘s combination of intense medical realism and dishy doctor soap opera has inspired a devoted fan following, and this jam-packed set will be catnip to them. A look back at where these now-beloved characters got their start — burnt-out resident Mark Green (Anthony Edwards), naive med student John … more…
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