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Clearly inspired by The X-Files — think, “Hey, let’s do moody FBI stuff without all the aliens and monsters!” — this late 90s NBC series pits the too-astonishingly genius criminal psychologist Dr. Sam Waters against all manner of insane madmen out to taunt and tease her with their bizarre murders. Alas, the gloomy stylishness gets … more…
Fans of offbeat actors have known the appealingly quirky Tony Shalhoub for years, and now he’s finally garnering well-deserved widespread acclaim (a Golden Globe win, an Emmy nomination) for his portrayal of “defective detective” Adrian Monk, a former San Francisco cop turned private eye in USA Network’s hit show. The crime of the moment in … more…
The realm of action-adventure fantasy is replete with reluctant heroes, but La Femme Nikita, the cult favorite USA Networks series, broke welcome new ground with its reluctant heroine, a comparative rarity in fiction. Nikita — played by Peta Wilson with a flair for endearing abrasiveness — is a hardened street kid convicted of a brutal … more…
Based on an actual open-air drug market on a corner in a rundown section of Baltimore, this harrowing HBO miniseries uses real stories and real names to depict how drug abuse and poverty ravage inner-city families and neighborhoods, and how those in their grip still manage to maintain a sense of humor and hope for … more…
Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer may be two of the hottest comedians working today, but you’d never know it from this obvious, tired showcase for the two of them. Continuing in the long, undistinguished tradition of TV shows built around “personalities,” Harvey stars as “Steve” and Cedric as “Cedric,” teachers at a pretend-tough urban … more…
The music swells over the moment of victory, tears run freely down my face, fade to black, movie over. And I want to sob even longer and harder. Usually the rolling credits and the lights coming up in this kind of situation means a letup in the girly crying, but not this time. There’s something else going on besides the usual Oscar-baiting, triumph-of-the-human-and-equine-spirit shrink-wrapped Gourmet Film.
Of course it’s Michael Bay-ariffic in that adorably ultraviolent, homophobic kinda way, all vehicles exploding for no apparent reason and deeply repressed male emotions, the kind of stuff that can’t help but lead one to the conclusion that Michael Bay is denying that he has some serious issues with, really, just about everything he comes into contact with: women, men, cars, swimming pools, family pets, home electronics.
Rowan Atkinson (Scooby-Doo) has successfully straddled the full spectrum of funny, from the sharp intellectual wordplay of Blackadder to the pathos-imbued silent comedy of Mr. Bean. Here, alas, he lands somewhere squarely in the uninspired middle with a character who is by turns bumbling and sophisticated, idiotic and brainy, dorky and irresistible to women, contradictions … more…
Forget that this is based on a ride at Disney World, and a pretty sorry one, at that — know that it’s a wonderfully exhausting, refreshingly unironic, delightfully old-fashioned swashbuckler.
Snarksters have been heckling bad movies forever, but it took Joel Hodgson, Generation X’s own Ernie Kovacs, to bring it to TV. The MST3K gang sniped its way through a bounty of awful movies — and were so consistently brilliant over the series’ eleven years — that the phrase “Mystery Science Theater” has passed into … more…
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