THE FIRST TIME may be too lovable for its own good. Jonathan Kasdan’s teen romance, which premiered in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance, couldn’t be more straightforward: in its opening minutes, it in...
THE WATCH: Not At Any Price – Do the Stars a Favor: Don’t Watch Some terrible movies surprise and disappoint, but you could see THE WATCH coming for weeks. The increasingly desperate marketing campaign told th...
> ENLIGHTENED – Mondays 9:30PM on HBO – If Nothing Else Is On… As a writer, Mike White is drawn to stories of delusion. Even though their tones (and commerciality) are widely divergent, his screenplays f...
“Are you kidding me? It’s always the weird stuff that’s the best,” Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) said at one point during tonight’s season finale of TRUE BLOOD–he was watching the birth o...
The actress Lake Bell’s feature-film writing/directing debut IN A WORLD… has a fresh slant on showbiz comedy, and it’s both consistently likable and sometimes very funny. It’s also sloppy, ove...
BRAND X WITH RUSSELL BRAND: Thursday 11PM on FX – Change the Channel Russell Brand has been more or less flailing around for the past several years, trying to find a place in American pop culture. His introduct...
The problem with making a show about someone dying of cancer is that no one really wants to watch a show about someone dying of cancer. Viewers will roll along with the dark and disturbing, but by and large they draw the line...
> According to TV By the Numbers, the season premiere of TRUE BLOOD on Sunday night had 5.4 million viewers (a virtual tie with its all-time high) and a 3.0 rating in 18-49s (slightly below its previous high). Considering...
>Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sho...
> Worth A Ticket; A tasty croissant from Woody Allen. Woody Allen interrupts the opening credits of his new comedy MIDNIGHT IN PARIS to insert a montage of lovely Paris locations. I mention this because after more than 40...
WHERE WE WERE: Dr. Dani Santino (Callie Thorne) was a happy suburban wife and mother who provided therapy to a few clients on the side, when her entire life was disrupted by a nasty divorce that left her in need of a g...
Within the first two minutes of its midseason premiere tonight, BUNHEADS featured a Harold Clurman gag. For those not up on their celebrated left-wing Depression-era theatre directors, Clurman was–well, yeah. (...
> Premieres Thursday 10PM on FX: Potential DVR Alert Is WILFRED more than a one-trick puppy? We’ll see. It joins the FX line-up of off-center comedies (Louie, The League, It’s Always Sunny in Phila...