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There comes a moment in most relationships where you really start to wonder if you can handle your partner’s annoying tendencies for even one minute more. It’s hugely unfortunate when that moment coincides with the night he decides to take you ring shopping, you know, so you can start...
The only thing I’ve ever heard anyone say about Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot is, “That movie is SO stupid.” For fifteen years I’ve taken this as a negative comment, only to find that people are stopping short in their synopsis. For some reason, they’re all too highbrow...
When a beloved book is made into a movie, I always anticipate it with a mixture of trepidation and excitement. Part of me thinks, “What could be better than a favorite story in movie form?” The other part of me recalls with horror just how many excellent books have...
We’ve all had moments when our families have disappointed us so much that we can’t believe they’re ours. It would be nice to disown them, or run away, or cry and swear and kick something, but for the most part we take a second to collect ourselves and deal...
If you’ve been following the Hallmark Channel’s adaptation of Janette Oke’s When Calls the Heart series, then you’ll be thrilled to find the third installment, When Calls the Heart: A Telling Silence available on DVD. There’s something comforting about these simple, slowly-told stories, and while they’re unlikely to rock...
If I f-ing write this f-ing review with as many f words as you’ll hear in f-ing Sabotage, you’ll have a pretty good f-ing idea how f-ing ridiculous it f-ing is. This comes from a certified swearer, who not only kisses her mother with that mouth, but frequently swears...
After tackling the songs of the Fifties and Sixties, there was nothing left for Barry Manilow to do but take on the Seventies. He couldn’t represent the decade’s chart-toppers without including his own catalog, and Barry Manilow: Songs From the Seventies finds him doing exactly that. He gives his...
I saw the first half of The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane when I was in junior high. I found it while flipping channels after SNL, and was immediately intrigued by this spooky tale. What’s up with little Jodie Foster living all by herself in the woods?...
I always say I’ve never seen the original Robocop movie, but that’s not entirely true. I’ve seen it in passing about fifteen times, and never once has it clicked to the point where I felt compelled to sit down and watch it. It’s weird. It’s wrong. As someone who...
PBS’s Pioneers of Television series covers the history and cultural significance of several related shows in each installment, and Season 4 is every bit as delightful as the ones that precede it. It includes four episodes, including “Standup to Sitcom”, “Doctors and Nurses”, “Acting Funny”, and “Breaking Barriers”. “Standup to...
On the surface, The Birdcage could not be a more straightforward movie. When Val Goldman (Dan Futterman) and Barbara Keeley (Calista Flockhart) decide to get married, they face the daunting task of introducing their parents to one another. Val’s father, Armand (Robin Williams), owns a gay night club in...
In every life there comes a point when things stop working. Maybe it’s the way you live or how you’ve always supported yourself. Maybe it’s more fundamental, and your body or mind start to give in. In the case of Craig (James Cromwell) and Irene Morrison (Genevieve Bujold), everything...
