Normally I don't enjoy the giggly gossippy women's group shows like Sex and the City or Desperate Housewives or Lipstick Thingees . I find them entirely unrelatable. I don't know if it's that no women act like that or just that no women I know act like that, but the whole lonely domestic goddess who likes to dish to her perfectly coiffed girlfriends about her wacky antics seems a little silly. But...
I haven't had time for a lot of TV. I'm still woefully behind on films. But I did manage to catch something that made me very happy. The biggest delight of the new fall season has been Eastwick, the ABC TV show based on The Witches of Eastwick , a novel by John Updike and a film by George Miller . It's the story of three women who are unhappy in their lives brought together by a wish to fulfill their...
I’d almost given up hope that Passchendaele and The Red Baron would ever be released in this country. The former was actually very successful in its native Canada. The latter rather, er, crashed and burned in Germany. But then, all of a sudden, they were both released at exactly the same time, each at just one cinema and for one week only. I don’t normally go to the flicks by myself in...
“Eastwick” (9 p.m. Central Wednesday, ABC; two stars) is a typical ABC pilot, in that it looks expensive and has an attractive ensemble cast. It's the kind of show in which an small-town artist's home is, I think, meant to have a scruffy, bohemian vibe. So it of course looks like the lush, beautifully appointed lair of the richest hippie who ever lived. Everything about “Eastwick,”...
Paul Gross maker of Due South, one of the funniest Canadian things on tv EVER. (If anyone can get me Due South on DVD for Region 2, there will be a great reward).
Nancy Jane Moore of the Book View Cafe blog says she didn't like the new Star Trek movie because it basically brought nothing new to the table. A couple thoughts: wanting the new Trek to be a 'blow them all up and let God sort them out' with hard to tell good guys and bad guys goes against Roddenberry's original idea of an optimistic future (not that SPOILER! > the genocide of Vulcan doesn't smack...
For those of you in the (perhaps vanishingly small) overlap in the Venn diagram between Due South watchers and Peter Straub readers, would Callum Keith Rennie not make the perfect Conor Linklater?
(I've been waiting for months to use that pun.) I want to pause here between Season 2 and Season 3 to talk about some of the global ways in which the last two seasons of Due South differ from the first two. Because there's more to it than just exchanging Callum Keith Rennie for David Marciano. I should say first that I admire David Marciano deeply, and I think they were extraordinarily lucky to get...
YouTube - Due South - Ride Forever I've just got through watching this show and I'm shocked at how much I loved it. Especially the episodes written by Paul Gross (which often feature him singing an original song that he wrote.) Due South is the story of a mountie who comes to Chicago on the trail of the killers of his father and finds himself to be a de facto exile from Canada. He stays in Chicago...
I Am A TV Junkie, A Blog For The Cl (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
If you have digital cable, you're already paying for it, so you might as well switch over to the Sundance Channel and get some use out of it. I am trying to find new ways for all of us to stretch our entertainment dollar.
(Okay, if you wanna spend some more money, I have a Amazon link later.)
I'm finding that now that I'm watching the presumptive pilot epiosde, the few eps that I have caught from...
One of our favorite shows of all time returns for an encore run this weekend, so rev up the DVR to catch it from the very start. Starring Paul Gross (“Due South”) and Mark McKinney (“Kids in the Hall”), “Slings...
By David Lambert - Acorn Media announces the February 5, 2008 DVD release of Slings & Arrows: The Complete Collection, the 7-volume discounted collector's set features all 18 episodes plus a bonus... (more)
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