Given the success of Whiplash, La La Land and to a lesser degree, First Man, writer/director Damien Chazelle had earned the right to swing big. Released during the 2022 holiday season, Babylon, a three-hour epic with an all-star cast and Oscar hopes, arrived with a thud. Bombing at the box office and given countless divisive reviews. Damien Chazelle has described Babylon as a “poison pen
Steve Martin is long established as one of the funniest guys around, but Bringing Down the House won’t be part of his career highlight reel. While the film did well at the box office, bringing in $164,729,679 worldwide, the inane script results in few genuine laughs. Steve Martin plays Peter Sanderson, a workaholic tax attorney leading a typical, busy life. Jealous that his ex-wife Kate
What a treat, and what a relief! Designing Women: 20 Timeless Episodes, another pleasant release from Shout! Factory, judiciously ignores seasons 6 and 7, likely because the former was only just released on DVD early last month, and the latter is being released in mid-July. But there’s only so much pain one can endure in essentially the end of Designing Women at the end of
When Aaron Sorkin created Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, producing what was truly one of the best pilots in television history, he should have studied television history in the early ‘90s from Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, creator of Designing Women. Not long after its debut, Studio 60 devolved into the characters becoming mouthpieces for whatever Sorkin was ticked about, that he just had to rant about
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 one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia, the show was most definitely a comedy but was never afraid to deal with a