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Who on earth invented the term “reality show”? There’s nothing “real” about them: they’re game shows, manipulated, artificial situations in which people compete for monetary reward. The worst of the breed are the “dating” ones, which verge on prostitution, and surely the worst of that bunch is cable network Bravo’s Boy Meets Boy. Positioned as … more…
An excellent example of cultural differences rendering a story nearly incomprehensible. Oh, sure, the behavior of the characters onscreen are easily described — the mansionful of teenaged girls hang out and talk about boys and cook meals together and do various other everyday tasks of no consequence. They even bathe together and compare the size … more…
It’s one of the most anticipated selections from Masterpiece Theater to hit DVD, and it was well worth the wait. In 1897, British army major Sinclair Yeates (Peter Bowles) resigns his commission to accept the post of Resident Magistrate in West Ireland, and while his beloved Philippa (Doran Godwin) is happy to make the move … more…
Blame HBO and its hugely successful Six Feet Under for starting a fad in undead hip. Not quite a ripoff, the Showtime series Dead Like Me nevertheless spins a cynical, unsentimental angle on mortality and nondenominational religious fantasy into something attempting insight on contemporary attitudes about life and death, and manages to hit every imaginable … more…
Poor old Oliver Twist — his nearly two-hundred-year-old misery never fails to be relevant, and so he’s doomed to be resurrected every decade or so for the edification of a new generation. This elegant British production — which aired in the U.S. on PBS’s Masterpiece Theater and here is packaged with that series’ introductions — … more…
Is it churlish to suggest that one of the most beloved and popular dramas currently on television is really kind of dull? The domestic and romantic adventures of the Gilmore girls — 32-year-old Lorelai (Lauren Graham: Seeing Other People) and her 16-year-old daughter, Rory (Alexis Bledel: Tuck Everlasting) — are deliberately positioned as “family programming,” … more…
So the lights go down and the movie starts and it’s like an assault. And my new friend Brian, who had been assuring me that I couldn’t possibly be more psyched to see this film than he was, he who had obviously made something of a hobby of zombie movies at some vulnerable point during his formative years — and it’s true; I had only seen the original Romero flick for the first time the day before — turns to me and asks plaintively, ‘I *wanted* to see this?’
A thoroughly absurd homeless-men-as-prey-for-gun-happy-rich-schmucks action flick. Lacks all suspense and mystery, though it thinks it has some sort of social conscience. It does not.
It’s probably a good thing that there isn’t, cuz the culties would be disappointed in this new *Starsky & Hutch.* The only thing that’s even remotely ‘Starsky & Hutch’ about this goofy adaptation is the red and white Ford Gran Torino.
It’s one of those days that we all remember vividly where we were and what we were doing when we heard the news: December 2, 1999, when Bill Gates was assassinated in Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park by Alek Hidell.
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