“And you may tell yourself, this is not my hapless gray cat. And you may tell yourself, this is not my quick-witted mouse. My God!…What have they done?!” – Paraphrased from Once in a Lifetime, with apologies to the Talking…
Laura Linney. Alan Alda. Parker Posey. Three of my favorite actors in the same series, the latter two as guest stars. This alone strengthens the argument that the best television shows to be found today are on cable, Showtime in…
The late Buford Pusser, a onetime professional wrestler and former Sherriff of McNairy County in Tennessee, gained some national headlines in the mid-sixties when he launched a one man war on the local moonshine rackets, with the help of a…
Minus the end credits, Carlos Mencia: New Territory is 80 minutes. The sole extra on this DVD from Comedy Central and Paramount is “Carlos Mencia’s Guide to Getting Fit,” which runs for two minutes, and goes into detail about how…
Even though it’s listed in the copy on the back of this four-disc DVD set, it takes a minute, much longer than recognizing Al “Grandpa Munster” Lewis, who I’m sure could have easily been picked out amidst a Grandpa Munster…
It becomes a mantra: “It’s an Aaron Spelling show. It’s an Aaron Spelling show. I’ve got to remember that it’s an Aaron Spelling show.” Strange to have to do that, what with being a fan of The Love Boat since…
At first, I thought the only inhabitant of the seaside village of Portwenn that would matter to me was Ian McNeice, who had a small supporting role in 84 Charing Cross Road, one of my all-time favorite movies, and co-starred…
Like the single-panel Saturday Evening Post comic strips on which it’s based, Hazel traffics only in small amusements, never steady, hearty laughter. The times when big laughter comes are dishearteningly brief and then more time is spent waiting for that…
The sole audio commentary for Titanic, appropriately for episode 1 only, since it’s the only interesting episode of this miniseries, states that it was dreamed up in 2008 to observe the eventual 100th anniversary of the famous ship’s sinking. The…
Sundance award winning documentary Miss Representation from filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom takes everything we know and have seen, from Disney, CNN, Fox, Hair commercials, to political campaigns and points out the painful discrepancy between the portrayal of men and women…