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This Weekend on Cable: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. (Still.)

Posted on August 20, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Did you read about those scientists who just created a synthetic life form in the lab? Don’t these guys watch movies? Maybe they missed Splice , but David Cronenberg’s The Fly should not be overlooked on cable this weekend, for a stomach-acidy dose of what can happen when you toke around with alleles and recombinative genes and shit like that. Plus: Paul Newman, Mel Gibson, Paul Robeson and Isabelle Huppert in a power suit…

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REVIEW: In The Big C, Laura Linney Can’t Do It All Alone

Posted on August 16, 2010 by | Leave a comment

There’s a moment at the end of the pilot episode of The Big C when Cathy Jamison (Laura Linney), finally reveals her previously pent up mixed emotions in the face of a stage 4 melanoma diagnosis. It’s a wonderful little monologue from a wonderful actress… and that it’s recited to a dog should tell you all you need to know about the major structural flaws of The Big C .

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This Week on Cable: Wish Airplane! a Happy 30th Birthday!

Posted on August 16, 2010 by | Leave a comment

If you’ve seen The Expendables or Eat Pray Love , then you no longer wonder why you pay that exorbitant cable bill — new doesn’t mean adequate or bearable. Movies are 120 years of rampaging stuff, not just this moment’s passing bulldozer. This week: Surrealism, Romanians, Ann Sheridan, Hitler-assassination films devised while WWII raged on, and more. TiVos at the ready…

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On VOD: The Sundance Hit You Never Saw, the Richard Kelly Puzzle You Never Solved

Posted on August 12, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Currently available on demand — as if risen from the grave around which its own plot revolves — find a Sundance hit that took almost 14 years to make its appearance to a paying public. And a studio whatsit that may take even longer than that to untangle.

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This Weekend on Cable: Who’s Up For a Rare-athon?

Posted on August 6, 2010 by | Leave a comment

This week on cable, a rare appearance by the great American indie you’ve never heard of — because it was due to open theatrically the week after 9/11. And didn’t. Better late than never…

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TV Bites: The Return of Beavis and Butt-Head?

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This Weekend on Cable: A Knight’s Tale, and 8 Other Trips to the Hollywood Outskirts

Posted on June 4, 2010 by | Leave a comment

This weekend, the best cable choices range from guilty pop-culture indulgences to guilt-free pop-culture joyrides, and either way it beats blowing a fitty on Sex and the City 2 . Many other things, like passing a star-shaped kidney stone, would beat that, too, of course, but the point isn’t hard to get.

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Is The Big Bang Theory’s Cast Worth a 285% Raise?

Posted on June 3, 2010 by | Leave a comment

The telegenic nerds of The Big Bang Theory are renewed for their fourth season, but months ahead of their new time-slot debut, the show’s three main stairs want hefty raises : a 285-percent increase from $65,000 to $250,000 an episode. Big Bang Theory ‘s ratings jumped in season three to about 14.2 million viewers each week, nearly double its first season draw. Still, a six-figure raise is the kind of maneuver usually associated with a bona-fide frontliner like Charlie Sheen, not ensembles (unless you count Friends ). Is this trio in the wrong?

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This Weekend On Cable: 8 Films Worth Emptying the TiVo For

Posted on May 21, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Between avoiding the new Shrek and waiting on the balls of you feet for Lost ‘s denouement, the weekend doesn’t have to be a wasteland of twiddled thumbs and regretted multiplex expenditures. You pay for cable already — use it.

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On VOD: Cloudy Satire and Helen Mirren’s Nude Debut

Posted on May 20, 2010 by | Leave a comment

It’s a hard thing not to love: the fast, funny, adept digitally animated kids’ movie that actually, even secretly, comes packing double barrels of satiric subtext. Sure, you think of WALL -E , which for my money painted the most lacerating portrait anyone has seen this century of American consumerism run amok. Did those millions of happy Pixar consumers not get the point? More to the point, did the millions of chortling filmgoers absorbing Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs have any trouble last year shoveling the popcorn and Raisinets? As of today, it’s on demand…

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