PTown Diaries is a documentary in search of a town. It has it in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims landed, and which has become creativity personified for artists and writers, and home to everyone, no matter their sexual orientation, no matter their views of life….
“Carlene, I don’t think you’re quite gettin’ it, so let me explain: Our lives are over. We have lost everything. There is nothing left; just ashes.” – Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, creator of Designing Women, wrote that line, which is part of “Of…
Looking for a bracing drama that makes you feel like you spent your evening well? Looking for involving characters embodied by actors who give such insightful, moving performances that you’re locked in all the way to the end, wondering what’s going to happen next and…
It’s unfortunate for Miss Minoes, and a reflection on Hollywood’s remake-happy nature, be it old or foreign films that I can’t help thinking what an American version would look like. Admittedly, it’s a fun game, as long as this review isn’t picked up by those…
27 episodes (a rarity today; even rarer is that every single one succeeds at being delicately balanced between comedy and bits of pathos), 10 cast members, an impressive selection of guest stars (Wayne Knight, Howard Hesseman, Richard Karn, French Stewart, Roger Daltrey, and others), and…
Last early Saturday morning (June 9, to be specific. I consider 2:30 to be the morning), I had a dream fueled by watching the series finale of That ‘70s Show with my sister off our living room Tivo the evening before. I’d seen it many…
Trust the audience. I wish many American TV shows would abide by that, as the British Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante has believed throughout a major career that has included, of course, giving Helen Mirren one of the greatest roles of her life. La…
Every DVD and every Blu-ray is good fodder for libraries, for people to discover TV shows or movies that they never thought they would like, and then they find that they can’t get enough of them. For example, having recently set out on a lifetime…
You’ve arrived in New Mexico after a long drive, or Cleveland for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, or Las Vegas after a very long, stressful flight. As much as you would like to see what the nightlife offers, you’re just too…
Shot entirely on digital video, since anything bigger would have caused more than just logistical problems in Kashmir, Zero Bridge makes movie history for being the “first narrative film shot in the Kashmiri language,” according to a review by Brandon Harris that’s included on the…