The Fairy is a meditation on deadpan comedy, as involved as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton movies, but much slower-paced. This is of benefit to those who are curious about every element of what it takes to make that kind…
Tyler Perry strikes me as an insecure filmmaker, like he’s worried that tomorrow will come and everything he’s worked for will disappear, so today he has to build more and more as a wall to keep that possibility of loss…
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…
“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,…
Released in 1971, director Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude has a decidedly late ‘60s feel. This is a film about life, love, disillusionment and death, replete with a hopeful Cat Stevens soundtrack. If you were to look up “off beat…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Brought to the small screen with the help of Executive Producer Steven Spielberg, and the director of Paranormal Activity Oren Peli, ABC had good reason to they had their newest hit with The River. Unfortunately, what looked like a promising premise…