Tara Gregson [Toni Collette] is a struggling artist/designer with a charming husband, Max [John Corbett] and two kids – studious Marshall [Kier Gilchrist] and uber-brat Kate [Brie Larson]. She also has three more personalities [slutty teen, T; macho redneck Buck, and super Betty Crocker, Alice – and a sister, Charmaine [Rosemarie DeWitt] who thinks she’s […]
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TELEVISION: The L Word – Crazier Than Ever!
When The L Word [Showtime, Sundays, 9/8C] returns this evening, it does so with a bang and whole heaping helping of crazy. By the time the teaser has ended, Jenny [Mia Kirshner] is dead and it looks like murder – and the determined investigating detective is Sgt. Duffy [Lucy Lawless]. Then the show skips back […]
TELEVISION: Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Hannah vs. Belle!
Secret Diary of a Call Girl [Showtime, Sundays, 10:30/9:30C] may be best known as the television program that helped Billie Piper escape the stereotyping that could have followed her from two seasons as The Doctor’s most popular companion ever on Doctor Who, but it is also a charmingly oddball look at the oldest profession as […]
TELEVISION: Stargate Universe: Four More Cast Members Announced!
SCI FI Channel has announced Justin Louis, David Blue, Brian J. Smith and Jamil Walker Smith will join the cast of the highly anticipated new original series Stargate Universe. The four will enlist alongside Robert Carlyle (Dr. Nicholas Rush) in the latest adventure in the Stargate franchise produced by MGM television. Production will begin in […]
TELEVISION: Battlestar Galactica Returns With Big Answers And Even Bigger Questions!
“…You are one of a small number of trusted BSG enthusiasts with whom we are sharing a review copy.” While that statement from the letter that accompanies the mid-season premiere of BSG [Sci Fi, Fridays, 10/9C], Sometimes a Great Notion, doesn’t exactly hurt my ego, it does come with some hefty caveats. I can’t give […]
TELEVISION: Patrick Swayze Gives A&E’s The Beast Its Power!
The new A&E series, The Beast [Thursdays, 10/9C], is built around a familiar premise – the veteran cop/FBI/CIA agent being teamed up with a green partner. The main difference between most movies and TV series that use this premise is that this one has Patrick Swayze and some very effective writing. Swayze is the unorthodox […]
TELEVISION: Preview: ‘Lost’ in Time & Space
I’ve just seen the two-hour premiere of season five of Lost [ABC Wednesdays, 8/7C, beginning on Jan. 21st]. You think it was strange and wild and exhilarating before? Just wait until you see what’s next! Although my agreement with ABC is that I can’t give away plot points, I can, perhaps, give clues. I […]
MOVIES & TELEVISION: It’s Time To Party With The 66th Golden Globes Awards!
With “Awards Season” in full swing, we come to my favorite awards show to watch – The Golden Globes [the Globes’ new look featured, above]. Where else can you see an award winner rush from the little girls’ room to the stage, trailing a piece of toilet paper from her shoe [Christine Lahti, you are […]
Television: Supernatural Teaser Clips- Family Remains
The CW Network/Warner Brothers hit series Supernatural, starring Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles as monster hunting, ghost battling, demon killing brothers Sam and Dean Winchester, is gearing up for its come back from holiday break on Thursday, January 16th with new first run episodes of season 4. Warner Brothers publicity department has once again provided […]
Television: STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS-The Gungan General
Anakin Skywalker, left, and Obi-Wan Kenobi capture pirate leader Hondo Ohnaka in a scene from “The Gungan General,” an all-new episode of STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi strike an unexpected and uneasy alliance with their greatest enemy – the villainous Count Dooku – in “The Gungan General,” an all-new […]
TELEVISION: And The New Doctor Is… Matt Smith?
The BBC today announced the identity of the eleventh actor to carry on as Doctor Who’s title character, The Doctor. Their choice, made public by Who Executive Producer Piers Wenger, is the twenty-six year old Matt Smith. Smith has appeared in the two Sally Lockhart mysteries The Ruby in the Smoke and The Shadow in […]