Thanks to beautiful visual effects and the talents of Angelina Jolie, Disney’s ultimate villain has received a new a backstory worth telling – even if the movie has a few flaws in the telling of that story. The film delivers a new twist to the classic fairy tale and makes the audience understand why she
All the teasers of Lisa and Brandi’s conversation didn’t even show us what really happened on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” this week – and the real thing was so much better. Brandi goes on a nature hike with Kyle and they do lots of talking about Lisa. Kyle’s just full of advice. And then
Laura Dern’s presence in Jean-Marc Vallée’s Wild is ethereal and steeped in memory and love. She’s Bobbi, the late mother of Reese Witherspoon’s character Cheryl. Bobbi died young of cancer which tipped her daughter into drug addiction and years of bad decisions. One day Cheryl embarks on a thousand mile solo trek to come to terms with
Jax’s nose doesn’t look any different – I think we can all agree on that. “Vanderpump Rules” tonight kept making me want to scream at the television set. Maybe that’s what BravoTV is going for here. Lesson learned – everyone that works at Sur keeps track of who does, and who does not, text them
A rich slice of hardship and redemption from the unforgiving frontier. The opening scenes are as bleak as death itself. Parched plains, patched together clapboard houses, poverty so deep it rises up to greet you at the front door, and wind that never, ever, lets up. Tommy Lee Jones’ second feature film shows an America
Sorry to say the second episode of the new season of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” was a total snore tonight. The narcolepsy commercials shown in some areas (tweeted about by viewers in New Jersey) was totally appropriate. The entire episode, basically, is about Brandi being desperate to make friends in the wake of her
Gotta be completely honest. No regrets about watching the Ferguson verdict instead of BravoTV’s “Vanderpump Rules” last night. I like the show, but nothing exciting happened. Lost nothing by waiting a day. Seriously, too much of the episode focused on Jax and his nose job. But before his big surgery, he goes on a manscaping
A tight knit and brutally honest essay on familial conflicts and the complications of living a Western dream in an environment of limited possibilities. Nine year old Junior is on the war path with his mother. What else is new? The ageless story of kid versus parent is told again, this time in the tough
Very few television shows get better and better over time, some start off great and go downhill from there, others just go down from the start. That is not the case with NBC’s Constantine. Since a tepid pilot that underwhelmed yet introduced the DC comics character John Constantine to the small screen, Constantine has been
I gotta say that I didn’t think tonight’s premiere of the new season of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” lived up to the hype. I mean, I’m happy it’s back, don’t get me wrong. But tonight just seemed to be nothing but “duh” moments and clips from last season. In a nutshell, Yoyo’s acting weird