This remake of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre hits the jackpot with Mia Wasikowska
Battle Los Angeles: A Shaky, Breaky Mess
What with the jittering camera aesthetic, clunky script, and creaky clichés, Battle Los Angeles won’t live long in the memory
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Primetime's Children: Salman Rushdie Writing Drama for Showtime
First we heard that Michael Chabon and wife Ayelet Waldman were developing a magicians-vs.-Nazis drama for HBO; now Showtime has enlisted its own award-winning novelist. Salman Rushdie (author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children, or ex of Padma Lakshmi depending on your frame of reference) is writing Next People, a …
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Idol Watch: Down to a Diddy-Dirty Dozen
Quick spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination follow:
Per usual, I watched the elimination round of American Idol on extreme fast-forward—the only way it should be watched—so sadly, I have no insights on what must have been the absolutely stunning preview of Red Riding Hood. A few highlights and thoughts, though:
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Dead Tree Alert: Dept. of Homeland Sincerity
When I first pitched my editors for a return review of Parks and Recreation in its third season, the last thing I expected is that the show would end up being politically timely. But while TV’s best sitcom is scarcely a hard-hitting political statement, it’s hard to avoid the coincidence of a show about quirky Midwest bureaucrats …
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Quake/Tsunami Takes Over TV News (Mostly), Will Test Foreign Depth
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TV news and social media snapped to attention early this morning (U.S. time) as news came of a 8.9 earthquake that hit off the coast of northern Japan and the tsunami that caused massive devastation and rolled across the Pacific.
As I write, most news and broadcast networks are …