Shout Factory | 1987 | 540 mins. | Not Rated Created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Designing Women was one of my favorite shows of the late eighties, early nineties. Centered around the working and personal lives of four Southern women and…
20th Century Fox | 2009 | 694 mins | Not rated As the creator of popular television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly, Joss Whedon has built a rather rabid fan base. Despite his devoted following, some would…
BBC | 2009 | 300 mins | Not rated Certainly, the news that the third season of Torchwood had been cut from twelve episodes to a five episode mini-series to be aired on consecutive nights in July of 2009 caused…
DreamWorks |2009 | 117 mins | Rated PG-13 Hollywood loves stories involving people with mental or physical handicaps. The list of Oscar winners is littered with actors who played disabled characters: Jane Wyman as a deaf-mute rape victim in Johnny…
Sony Pictures | 2009 | 108 mins | Rated PG-13 At first glance, Obsessed seemed like a great opportunity for pop diva Beyoncé Knowles to stretch her acting wings and play something other than, well, a pop diva. We get…
Warner Bros. | 2008 | 598 mins | Not rated Just when I thought network television might have passed all their flair for originality on to cable television, along came Pushing Daisies. Created by Bryan Fuller, Daisies was truly unique;…
Warner Bros. | 2005 | 1023 Mins. | Not Rated Despite numerous cast changes, ER remained a strong performer in the Nielsen ratings during the series eleventh season, averaging 15.5 million viewers per week and finishing the season as the…
Sony Pictures | 1985 | 108 mins | Rated R Ah, the “Brat Pack. Those of us who grew up in the eighties remember them well. The term was often used to describe a group of young actors and actresses…
Disney / Buena Vista | 1996 | 135 mins | Rated R In the 1980’s, Billy Bob Thornton was living in Los Angeles and trying to establish himself as an actor; one night, while working as a waiter at an…
Paramount Pictures | 2009 | 105 mins | Rated PG-13 Throughout the history of film, Hollywood has a history of creating knockoffs. Filmmakers and executives don’t restrict the art of the art of the knockoff to the movies themselves; sometimes…