The great Spanish filmmaker casts Antonio Banderas as a mad-love surgeon, in a surgical thriller designed to make your flesh crawl
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The Morning After: A House Is Not a Home
Brief spoilers for American Horror Story below:
For its second episode, American Horror Story (which I reviewed at length earlier) dialed back the crazy and the feverish imagery, but just a touch. At the same time, it gave us …
Footloose: A Remake That’s Hokey But Heartfelt
Hokey but heartfelt, this remake of the old musical preaches that teens can dance their way out of the Recession
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My Rosie Serenade; or, You Don’t Really Care for Music, Do You?
So yesterday in my review of the then-two-day-old The Rosie Show on OWN, I riffed on Rosie O’Donnell’s quoting of her show’s critical reviews during her monologue: “Just in case,” I wrote, “it’s Pah-nuh-WAH-zick.'” Rosie, and her …
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TV Tonight: Community Rolls the Die
Community has always been a deeply but not broadly loved sitcom, and its fans may be justifiably nervous about its future given the season’s ratings so far. (The show gave a meta-nod to these worries a few episodes ago, with …
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Rosie O’Donnell, Queen of Dusk
Rosie O’Donnell began the second night of her OWN network talk show, The Rosie Show, by reading a selection of reviews of the first night of The Rosie Show, for the audience to cheer or boo. I didn’t review the first night, but …
Dancing with the Stars Week Four Results: Chynna Phillips Can’t Hold On
Monday night on Dancing with the Stars saw everyone hoofing it to music from movies like Indiana Jones, Psycho and Toy Story.
The Big Year: Not Just for the Birds
Big stars Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black go small and score in an unexpectedly sweet comedy.
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The Morning After: Parenthood, Now With More Parenthood
I will admit that, when it comes to Parenthood, I am part of the problem. It’s always occupied a spot with me where I’m warm to the show but not driven enough to watch it live every week and thus blog about it.
House Watch: The Return to Princeton Plainsboro
A football game pushed House M.D. out of its time slot last night, so my DVR missed it. I watched this morning on iTunes, so sorry for the delay. And a serious spoiler alert this week: if your DVR also had Terra Nova where House …
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TV Tonight: Last Man Standing
On behalf of the men of the world, I want to apologize to women for the existence of Last Man Standing, ABC’s new Tim Allen comedy, if for no other reason than its existence seems predicated on the idea that I need to watch it to …
Dancing with the Stars Week Four Recap: Cher Visits Movie Night
We hope you got out your popcorn and jujubes, because it was movie night on Dancing with the Stars, complete with honest-to-God Hollywood royalty in the audience.
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The Morning After: Enlightened: What Is This Show, Anyway?
There are plenty of reasons to critique some of the half-hour series on HBO and Showtime (Weeds, Hung, The Big C) but the critique I’ve never gotten, nor had much patience for, is: “It’s supposed to be comedy, but it’s not funny …