• October 25, 2006
• At Home, Drama, Television

Based on Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Line of Beauty shows Margaret Thatcher’s 80s-England through the eyes of a wide-eyed young gay man. Nick Guest (pretty Dan Stevens...

• March 16, 2006
• At Home, Comedy, Television

Gimme a Break! was one of the first shows to enter my childhood TV viewing schedule, though I simply referred to it as “Nell” for many years. I watched...

• January 28, 2006
• At Home, Music, Television

From October 1973 to January 1982, Tom Snyder was a late-night icon, coming on after Johnny Carson with his talk show The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder. Since I...

• October 29, 2004
• At Home, Drama, Television

I’ve told myself that don’t watch soaps, but Queer as Folk is just another example of how I lie to myself more often than is healthy. Let’s just say...

• August 15, 2004
• At Home, Comedy, Science Fiction, Television

I remember trying to sneak-watch ALF when it first came on TV in 1986. I was endlessly intrigued by this Alien Life Form and his human companions, but my...

• October 25, 2002
• At Home, Drama, Romance, Television

Tipping the Velvet is a three-hour television adaptation of the surprisingly successful first novel by Sarah Waters (read Moviepie’s exclusive interview with Sarah Waters about the series). Surprising in...

• October 29, 2001
• At Home, Television

Since QAF was a U.S. interpretation of a hugely popular British TV series (that had nothing to hide), critics were afraid that the Showtime version would get all squirrelly...