In this episode of Dateline NBC’s “True Confession,” airing on February 23, 2024, viewers are taken on a journey through the decades-long investigation into the rape and murder of Angie Dodge in Idaho Falls. The episode meticulously chronicles the twists and turns of the case, from the wrongful conviction of Chris Tapp to the false accusation of Michael Usry Jr. Each step of the investigation is dissected, revealing the challenges and breakthroughs that ultimately led to the arrest and confession of Brian Leigh Dripps Sr.
Through interviews with key figures involved in the case and gripping reenactments, viewers gain insight into the painstaking process of forensic investigation and the emotional toll of seeking justice for Angie Dodge and her family.
With its in-depth analysis and compelling storytelling, “True Confession” offers viewers a captivating glimpse into the complexities of modern criminal justice and the enduring quest for truth and closure. Don’t...
Through interviews with key figures involved in the case and gripping reenactments, viewers gain insight into the painstaking process of forensic investigation and the emotional toll of seeking justice for Angie Dodge and her family.
With its in-depth analysis and compelling storytelling, “True Confession” offers viewers a captivating glimpse into the complexities of modern criminal justice and the enduring quest for truth and closure. Don’t...
- 2/22/2024
- by Alex Matthews
- TV Regular
Quick, silly and lent weight only by the costume department’s copious wigs and furs, “The Crime Is Mine” finds tireless French auteur François Ozon in the playful period pastiche mode of “Potiche” and “8 Women.” It’s a film less about any frenetic onscreen shenanigans as it is about its own mood board of sartorial and cinematic reference points — Jean Renoir, Billy Wilder, some vintage Chanel — and as such it slips down as fizzily and forgettably as a bottle of off-brand sparkling wine. This story of an aspiring stage star standing trial for a top impresario’s murder (and making the most of her moment in the tabloid flashbulbs) may be based on a nearly 90-year-old play, but for those versed more in Hollywood and Broadway than in French theater, Ozon’s adaptation resembles a kind of diva fanfic: What if Roxie Hart went up against Norma Desmond, except in rollicking 1930s Paris?...
- 12/24/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Ahead of the Curve
In 1990, a 23-year-old named Frances “Franco” Stevens applied for multiple credit cards. When she was approved, she withdrew as much cash as she could from them, and used the money to launch Deneuve, one of the first lesbian magazines in the United States. In a fiction feature-length film, this moment would arrive halfway through the running time, the percussion in the score would tense as we saw an actor convey the fear and hopefulness of someone attempting something bold and risky. A mellow piano would probably announce that this is “the” make or break moment for our heroine. – Jose S. (full review)
Where to Stream: VOD
Bad Tales (D’Innocenzo Brothers)
Amid the litany of horrors the biting little film Bad Tales presents,...
Ahead of the Curve
In 1990, a 23-year-old named Frances “Franco” Stevens applied for multiple credit cards. When she was approved, she withdrew as much cash as she could from them, and used the money to launch Deneuve, one of the first lesbian magazines in the United States. In a fiction feature-length film, this moment would arrive halfway through the running time, the percussion in the score would tense as we saw an actor convey the fear and hopefulness of someone attempting something bold and risky. A mellow piano would probably announce that this is “the” make or break moment for our heroine. – Jose S. (full review)
Where to Stream: VOD
Bad Tales (D’Innocenzo Brothers)
Amid the litany of horrors the biting little film Bad Tales presents,...
- 6/4/2021
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
I must have encountered Archie Comics while I was still young and innocent before the brassy hell we knew as high school — and military high school at that – before I began my ten-year abstinence from reading comic books. I can’t remember a time when Archie and his pals and gals weren’t on my radar somewhere (though the blip was probably dim and small. One of those deals where I knew something but didn’t know I knew it.)
The Archie posse was one of a bunch of similar groups that were sprinkled throughout the media in the years immediately before and after the Second World War. But the genre was born decades earlier, in the 1920s when the younger set began to be identified as a consumer group with few bucks in their pockets. The fictional teens got a boost from a series of movies starring Mickey Rooney as the lovable Andy Hardy,...
The Archie posse was one of a bunch of similar groups that were sprinkled throughout the media in the years immediately before and after the Second World War. But the genre was born decades earlier, in the 1920s when the younger set began to be identified as a consumer group with few bucks in their pockets. The fictional teens got a boost from a series of movies starring Mickey Rooney as the lovable Andy Hardy,...
- 2/2/2017
- by Dennis O'Neil
- Comicmix.com
True Confession: after gobbling up all five seasons of Breaking Bad, I have yet to check out Better Call Saul, which I hear is excellent. I'm getting around to it! Alas, there's just too much good TV out there, and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan unfortunately isn't helping. Case in point: Gilligan is now developing a limited series about cult leader Jim Jones with his Breaking Bad exec-producer Michelle MacLaren, who directed several of the AMC series' greatest episodes. (It's also being executive produced by Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer.) There is literally no way I'm not watching this. Titled Raven, the series will trace the origins of Jones's religious movement The Peoples Temple through its horrific end in November 1978, when 918 members of the group, including 276 children, died in a mass murder/suicide at their Jonestown settlement in northwestern Guyana. Prior to the massacre, United States Congressman Leo Ryan --...
- 9/9/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
True Confession: I watched the original Mother, May I Sleep with Danger on YouTube like two weeks ago. I'm not proud of it! But in my own defense, I felt a professional obligation to rewatch it in advance of James Franco's upcoming Lifetime remake of the "cult" 1996 TV movie, which takes the stalker premise of the original and lightly shakes it up by inserting some lesbian vampires into the mix. Just a small twist! Basically the same movie. (Read: this is not at all the same movie.) For those who haven't seen the original, Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? centers on Tori Spelling's Laurel, a naive college student whose boyfriend (Opposite of Sex heartthrob Ivan Sergei) pressures her to undergo a drastic hair makeover...and also relentlessly stalks and eventually tries to murder her. Little things. Her pantsuited, take-charge mother is played by Lisa Banes, the...
- 5/27/2016
- by Chris Eggertsen
- Hitfix
We all know who’s going to win Season 8 of The Voice — even though his coach semi-sabotaged him tonight with an unspeakable army of Ariana Grande clones.
Still, the identities of the four artists who’ll join preternaturally talented Sawyer Fredericks (Aka He Whose Recorded Burps Would Crack the iTunes Top 10) in next week’s semifinals are far less of a certainty — especially after a mixed showing on Top 6 performance night.
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Will viewers bow down to Kimberly Nichole’s epic “Dirty Diana,” or crinkle their nose...
Still, the identities of the four artists who’ll join preternaturally talented Sawyer Fredericks (Aka He Whose Recorded Burps Would Crack the iTunes Top 10) in next week’s semifinals are far less of a certainty — especially after a mixed showing on Top 6 performance night.
RelatedMay Sweeps/Finale Preview! Get 100+ Spoilers, Exclusive Photos From Your Fave Shows’ Season-Ending Episodes
Will viewers bow down to Kimberly Nichole’s epic “Dirty Diana,” or crinkle their nose...
- 5/5/2015
- TVLine.com
True confession time: I hate mascara and applying false eyelashes with the Duo glue and then worrying if all that junk is going to pop off at the worst possible time. When I get dressed and need to look my best, I want my face to be finished, but not Kardashian spider-leg drag in the lash department either. The truth is, womens’ faces are greatly enhanced with a lush lash line.Look at poor Uma Thurman, who went out without mascara recently. She had the whole world thinking she did something weird to her face. She just forgot to put on […]...
- 2/25/2015
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
True confession: I may be the only person in the United States who dramatically slid down a wall and let out a tortured “Nooooooo!!!!” after learning that American Idol will eventually cut back to one night a week midway through Season 14.
After three consecutive hump days of middling vocals, “heard it all before” backstories and not nearly enough scenes of Ryan Seacrest getting bear-hugged by jubilant families, however, I’m reconsidering my stance.
Perhaps, in a world where orange is the new black and Idris Elba could/should be the next 007, less is destined to be the new more...
After three consecutive hump days of middling vocals, “heard it all before” backstories and not nearly enough scenes of Ryan Seacrest getting bear-hugged by jubilant families, however, I’m reconsidering my stance.
Perhaps, in a world where orange is the new black and Idris Elba could/should be the next 007, less is destined to be the new more...
- 1/22/2015
- TVLine.com
“Why Aren’T You All Turning Your Chairs? Turn Your Chairs! Turn Them! Turn Them!”
Oh dear. I am so sorry to begin this recap of The Voice‘s fourth round of Season 7 Blind Auditions with an all-caps rant, but come on, I’m not the only one who finds himself shouting and gesticulating wildly when Gwen, Pharrell, Adam and Blake ignore winning PowerBall tickets falling from heaven, am I?
And by “winning PowerBall tickets,” of course, I mean serious contenders like Toia Jones and Amanda Lee Peers, who tonight had to settle for two- and one-chair turns, respectively, while...
Oh dear. I am so sorry to begin this recap of The Voice‘s fourth round of Season 7 Blind Auditions with an all-caps rant, but come on, I’m not the only one who finds himself shouting and gesticulating wildly when Gwen, Pharrell, Adam and Blake ignore winning PowerBall tickets falling from heaven, am I?
And by “winning PowerBall tickets,” of course, I mean serious contenders like Toia Jones and Amanda Lee Peers, who tonight had to settle for two- and one-chair turns, respectively, while...
- 10/1/2014
- TVLine.com
True confession time: you can keep your gravelly-voiced Christian Bales and your nipple-suited George Clooneys – my favorite Batman will always be Michael Keaton. In fact, Keaton raises the bar in just about every good, bad, or indifferent role he’s ever played. In his latest film Birdman, from director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, it looks like Keaton might finally be getting his critical due.
Birdman tells the story of a former movie superhero star Riggan Thompson who gets a chance to stage his comeback via Broadway in an adaptation of Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Family, friends, and ego get in the way as opening night approaches, and Thompson finds himself faced with personal and professional challenges. In addition to Keaton, the film stars Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts – so if Keaton’s name was not enough to get you into the theater,...
Birdman tells the story of a former movie superhero star Riggan Thompson who gets a chance to stage his comeback via Broadway in an adaptation of Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Family, friends, and ego get in the way as opening night approaches, and Thompson finds himself faced with personal and professional challenges. In addition to Keaton, the film stars Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts – so if Keaton’s name was not enough to get you into the theater,...
- 9/26/2014
- by Lauren Humphries-Brooks
- We Got This Covered
True confession time -- the first time that I watched Sin City (2005), I wasn't enthused due to my naivete. However, a recent viewing with the mindset of watching a graphic novel brought to life changed my perspective drastically. I found myself engaged by the characters, and therefore I was anxious to see what co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller had in the cards with Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.
This film is both a prequel and sequel at the same time, as we learn more about the central characters from the first installment -- Marv (Mickey Rourke) is still bashing in heads but this time he gets called in to help Nancy (Jessica Alba) and Dwight (Josh Brolin) with their own personal vendettas. Nancy grieves for the death of her childhood hero and only love, Hartigan (Bruce Willis), who keeps his promise to never leave her even if...
This film is both a prequel and sequel at the same time, as we learn more about the central characters from the first installment -- Marv (Mickey Rourke) is still bashing in heads but this time he gets called in to help Nancy (Jessica Alba) and Dwight (Josh Brolin) with their own personal vendettas. Nancy grieves for the death of her childhood hero and only love, Hartigan (Bruce Willis), who keeps his promise to never leave her even if...
- 8/22/2014
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Halloween is one of my least favorite times as a critic. I generally don’t care for horror films or TV series that scare for scariness’ sake; I’ve never really felt the desire to watch a bunch of teenagers get slaughtered for no reason in increasingly fucked up ways. Moreover, I’m laughably easy to frighten, and paranoid to boot, so a particular image or fear might give me the chills from here to eternity. True Confession: the sight of the Scream mask still gets my heart racing after all these years. That’s why I so greatly enjoyed the Sundance Channel’s The Returned; it feels like a work of horror made for people like me. Premiering on Halloween at 9 Pm and airing every Thursday night at the same time thereafter, the eight-episode import from France is more creepy than scary (think the resurrected undead, not blood and guts), and boasts considerable emotional complexity...
- 10/30/2013
- by Inkoo Kang
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Paulina Rubio (Code name: “Still No Idea Who That Is”) finally got her Big Moment on The X Factor tonight. The occupant of the Britney Spears Chair of English Manglage and Barely Formed Thoughts has shone especially dim during her Season 3 tenure — particularly sitting alongside the high-wattage wit and wisdom of Kelly Rowland and the scrappy sparkle of Demi Lovato.
Unfortunately for Pow-leena (as host Mario Lopez prefers to overemphasize it), the Big Moment probably didn’t resemble what she and her management team had envisioned when she hopped aboard Fox’s second-most-popular reality singing competition (out of two).
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Unfortunately for Pow-leena (as host Mario Lopez prefers to overemphasize it), the Big Moment probably didn’t resemble what she and her management team had envisioned when she hopped aboard Fox’s second-most-popular reality singing competition (out of two).
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- 10/10/2013
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Warning: If you haven’t yet watched the Season 5 premiere of The Good Wife, proceed directly to some other TVLine article. Everyone else, jump on in!
What could be scarier than being strapped to a gurney to be executed for a crime you didn’t commit, only to have the on-call nurse not be able to locate a viable vein for your lethal injection? How about being called into a room with the entire partnership of Lockhart Gardner when you know you’re in the midst of double-crossing them?
Video | The Good Wife‘s Christine Baranski Previews the ‘Alicia-gate’ Blow-Up
Ok,...
What could be scarier than being strapped to a gurney to be executed for a crime you didn’t commit, only to have the on-call nurse not be able to locate a viable vein for your lethal injection? How about being called into a room with the entire partnership of Lockhart Gardner when you know you’re in the midst of double-crossing them?
Video | The Good Wife‘s Christine Baranski Previews the ‘Alicia-gate’ Blow-Up
Ok,...
- 9/30/2013
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
My fellow Nyu alumnus Spike Lee, now a grad school professor, has posted on Kickstarter the list of films that he considers to be essential viewing for any aspiring filmmaker. He gives it out to his students on the first day of class. It's a fabulous list! He's right. Any proper cinephile should have seen all these films. Have you? (Remember, I'm the one who called my college boyfriend a "movie moron" for not having seen "2001: A Space Odyssey"--which isn't on Lee's list.) Your Netflix queue awaits. True confession: I am ordering up "Cooley High," "Dead End," "Kung Fu Hustle," "I Am Cuba," "Miracle in Milan" and "Paisan." Lee's list includes three films each by masters Akira Kurosawa (the filmmaker at the top of my personal pantheon of directors), Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Huston, and Federico Fellini. He also includes Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde,...
- 7/29/2013
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
True confession time: I’m not much of a Broadway theater expert — unless you consider the fact that I recapped two seasons of Smash. (“Wait, that just makes you a masochist,” you say.)
But who can resist the charms of Neil Patrick Harris Hosting the 2013 Tony Awards? Certainly not me, especially when we’ll finally find out whether Bombshell or Hit List takes home the most statuettes. (I kid! I kid!)
Video | Tony Awards’ Cancelled TV Show Musical Number Brings Out the Stars of Smash, The New Normal and More
Seriously, though, let’s talk about Harris’ legendary opening number,...
But who can resist the charms of Neil Patrick Harris Hosting the 2013 Tony Awards? Certainly not me, especially when we’ll finally find out whether Bombshell or Hit List takes home the most statuettes. (I kid! I kid!)
Video | Tony Awards’ Cancelled TV Show Musical Number Brings Out the Stars of Smash, The New Normal and More
Seriously, though, let’s talk about Harris’ legendary opening number,...
- 6/10/2013
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
What makes a great beach read? Romance, escape, and high odds for a happy ending - plus enough suspense to keep those pages breezily turning. Share your thoughts on the novels we'll be losing ourselves in this Memorial Day - and let us know what you're reading. Julie Dam, Assistant Managing Editor Her Pick: Pastors' Wives by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen I have two little kids so my reading list is usually in the Maisy and Pinkalicious vein. But this holiday weekend I'm digging into Pastors' Wives, a lively, funny novel set at a Southern evangelical megachurch. Even for non-religious readers...
- 5/23/2013
- PEOPLE.com
Practically every second of American Idol provides juicy fodder for conspiracy theorists, paranoid superfans and hardcore cynics on their second glasses of sauvignon blanc.
Take, for example, the Season 12 Top 8 results telecast: As the five remaining ladies and three surviving guys teamed up for a performance of Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll,” I wondered to myself, who’s going to be stuck with the line, “say I’m old-fashioned, say I’m over the hill”? And will that be the tipoff as to who’s walking the plank and joining the “Eighth-Place Club” alongside Jon Peter Lewis,...
Take, for example, the Season 12 Top 8 results telecast: As the five remaining ladies and three surviving guys teamed up for a performance of Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll,” I wondered to myself, who’s going to be stuck with the line, “say I’m old-fashioned, say I’m over the hill”? And will that be the tipoff as to who’s walking the plank and joining the “Eighth-Place Club” alongside Jon Peter Lewis,...
- 3/29/2013
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Gaumont's Barbarella TV series coming to life with Skyfall writers; Nicolas Winding Refn will direct
True confession: I've never seen the 1968 Barbarella starring Jane Fonda. It's sitting in my Netflix queue like homework and perhaps I'll get to it one day, but it's just not high enough on my list of movie-watching priorities. I'm sure it's got some fun sci-fi nostalgia, but I'm in no rush. However, the news that Skyfall writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are penning a new TV series of the property for Gaumont with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn directing has me all sorts of...
- 1/29/2013
- by Paul Shirey
- JoBlo.com
True confession time; I've never seen either Dexter or Homeland. They're two raved-about shows that I'm always pointed to when the discussion of "best shows on TV" comes up. Here's the dilemma: There's too many great shows on TV today. Sounds crazy, right? Ten years ago, this wasn't the case. Now, with production value, star power, and overall content improvement, TV has become the perfect venue for creators and stars who, until recently, would've considered TV a death...
- 8/17/2012
- by Paul Shirey
- JoBlo.com
The set list for tonight’s American Idol Top 5 performance show has been leaked by band leader Ray Chew — in addition to the previously announced British Music theme, the remaining finalists will also tackle a track from the 1960s — and now it’s time to speculate who will sing what.
First, here are the song spoilers, which include a lot of familiar titles. (Oh Uncle Nigel, when will you hire a year-round staff to start pre-clearing a fresher and deeper song library?)
The ’60s
The Temptations’ “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”
The Box Tops’ “The Letter”
Ike and Tina Turner...
First, here are the song spoilers, which include a lot of familiar titles. (Oh Uncle Nigel, when will you hire a year-round staff to start pre-clearing a fresher and deeper song library?)
The ’60s
The Temptations’ “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”
The Box Tops’ “The Letter”
Ike and Tina Turner...
- 5/2/2012
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
True confession: I had a hard time facing Week 5 of Dancing With the Stars without the presence of ebullient quote machine Sherri Shepherd. But there was no time for tears as the nine remaining couples prepared to Samba, Salsa and Tango the night away. That’s right, welcome to Latin Night, or as I like to call it, the episode in which William Levy shook his ample bon-bon.
But it wasn’t just the promise of shimmying booty, but also trouble, that hung heavy in the ballroom air: A trio of injury-plagued faves — Melissa Gilbert (concussion), Maria Menounos (stress...
But it wasn’t just the promise of shimmying booty, but also trouble, that hung heavy in the ballroom air: A trio of injury-plagued faves — Melissa Gilbert (concussion), Maria Menounos (stress...
- 4/17/2012
- by Team TVLine
- TVLine.com
You can’t always get what you want, as Mick Jagger (and later, Crystal Bowersox) once sang, and that adage has certainly been applicable to most of American Idol‘s first 399 episodes.
On Wednesday, however, in celebration of the 400th installment of the reality-competition granddaddy, Uncle Nigel took a page from Burger King’s ad department and produced an episode that let the Idoloonie Nation have it their way: A Top 13 packed almost entirely with solid (and varied) vocalists. Specific, constructive critiques from the judges. A mentor with serious chops, good humor, and spot-on advice. A clear, unmuddied sound mix.
On Wednesday, however, in celebration of the 400th installment of the reality-competition granddaddy, Uncle Nigel took a page from Burger King’s ad department and produced an episode that let the Idoloonie Nation have it their way: A Top 13 packed almost entirely with solid (and varied) vocalists. Specific, constructive critiques from the judges. A mentor with serious chops, good humor, and spot-on advice. A clear, unmuddied sound mix.
- 3/8/2012
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
The moment we’ve been waiting for since Scotty McCreery’s confetti shower back in May 2011 finally arrived Thursday night: The Season 11 Top 13 announcement/Wild Card episode!
Below, find my pithy reactions to the biggest news that’s happened to Fox’s reality franchise since Kris Allen’s “The Vision of Love” hit YouTube.
But first, can we discuss Jimmy Iovine? Yes, folks, the Interscope honcho, dressed as usual in his 15-year-old nephew’s “dopest” duds, is back this season. And on Thursday, he was employed as a bracing tonic to the judges’ “everyone gets a gold star!” critiques, a...
Below, find my pithy reactions to the biggest news that’s happened to Fox’s reality franchise since Kris Allen’s “The Vision of Love” hit YouTube.
But first, can we discuss Jimmy Iovine? Yes, folks, the Interscope honcho, dressed as usual in his 15-year-old nephew’s “dopest” duds, is back this season. And on Thursday, he was employed as a bracing tonic to the judges’ “everyone gets a gold star!” critiques, a...
- 3/2/2012
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Another day, another catchphrase mangled by Randy Jackson. “Bring in the Kraken“? Seriously, dawg?
Then again, perhaps it was just the high altitude and low air pressure of Aspen, Co, that caused the third judge’s snafu (and decision to wear positively atroshe powder-blue shoes).
Whatever the case may be, the fourth audition episode of Idol‘s 11th season brought us a Lady Gaga wannabe (or, perhaps more accurately, a Rachel Zevita knockoff), Scotty McCreery 2.0, a kid who wrote his own audition song, and a promising young woman named Haley. (True confession: It’s going to be a test...
Then again, perhaps it was just the high altitude and low air pressure of Aspen, Co, that caused the third judge’s snafu (and decision to wear positively atroshe powder-blue shoes).
Whatever the case may be, the fourth audition episode of Idol‘s 11th season brought us a Lady Gaga wannabe (or, perhaps more accurately, a Rachel Zevita knockoff), Scotty McCreery 2.0, a kid who wrote his own audition song, and a promising young woman named Haley. (True confession: It’s going to be a test...
- 1/26/2012
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
True confession: I’ve never truly forgiven HBO for canceling The Comeback — Lisa Kudrow’s scathing examination of the Hollywood machine and unflinching/unsettling look at basic human insecurity — that lasted for one brief, dazzling, and painfully hilarious season back in 2005. (All together now: “Note to self: After a long day at work, I don’t wanna see that!”)
Flash forward to 2011 — and more specifically to Monday night’s season finale of the network’s equally brilliant/wince-inducing/honest/infuriating Enlightened — and here I am ready to rage against the network for not yet committing to a second...
Flash forward to 2011 — and more specifically to Monday night’s season finale of the network’s equally brilliant/wince-inducing/honest/infuriating Enlightened — and here I am ready to rage against the network for not yet committing to a second...
- 12/13/2011
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
True confession: I have never been a knee-jerk fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm or for that matter Seinfeld, which Larry David helped created. The crotchety version of himself that David plays on his endlessly praised series too often veers from “annoying to the characters around him but amusing to us,” (and isn’t that just a way of flattering the audience?) to flat out annoying. The too-cute zippy Italian circus music that is the series’ theme makes me hit “mute” and even the nickname “Curb” gets on my nerves (but that’s not David’s fault). Seinfeld has a more affable, like-me, puppy-dog…...
- 7/10/2011
- James on ScreenS
Any which way you slice it, this week’s So You Think You Can Dance results show was a trying one. Four of the Top 20 dancers — or 20 percent of the field — felt the cold grip of elimination icily massage their necks, and when it was all said and done, two early favorites, a World Champion, and one of Nigel’s certified lady beasts had fallen by the wayside.
But looking on the bright side, perhaps America’s loss will be Debbie Reynolds’ gain. Indeed, on Wednesday night’s performance show, the screen legend and bawdy guest judge jokingly offered to...
But looking on the bright side, perhaps America’s loss will be Debbie Reynolds’ gain. Indeed, on Wednesday night’s performance show, the screen legend and bawdy guest judge jokingly offered to...
- 6/24/2011
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Good news for Nigel Lythgoe: In the year 2015, when he begins production on his Lifetime original movie Sing It Anyway: The Lauren Alaina Story, he’ll already have a script in place. Oh, sure, Uncle Nigel might take a few creative liberties with the historical record — perhaps Little Lauren will deliver her final American Idol performance in a driving rainstorm, on her way to the airport to stop her future fiancé from getting on a plane, with a pit stop to rescue a pack of kindly grandmothers from a burning bus – but make no mistake: Tuesday’s Season 10 performance-night finale was the carefully crafted,...
- 5/25/2011
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
Ok cinephiles. Who among you has seen all 100 on the Toronto International Film Festival's Essential 100? The full list is pasted below. True confession: I have seen all but the following 11, which I shame-facedly reveal below: 1. Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray (pictured) 2. La Jetee Chris Marker 3. Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom Pier Paolo Pasolini 4. Through the Olive Trees Abbas Kiarostami 5. Dust in the Wind Hou Hasaio-Hsien 6. Chronique d'un Ete Edgar Morin and Jean Rauch 7. La Noire de... Ousmane Sembene 8. Andre Rublev Andrei Tarkovsky 9. A Nos Amours Maurice Pialat 10. Earth Aleksandr Dovzhenko 11. Oldboy Park Chan-Wook The Essential 100 This list represents the merging of one 100 film list as determined by an ...
- 12/17/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
True confession: I sang along with The Sound of Music at the Hollywood Bowl a few summers back, with a lot of other happy fans of the 1965 musical, which is still the third most successful movie of all time (after Gone with the Wind and Star Wars). Corrected for inflation in 2005 dollars, according to Blockbusting, the movie's domestic gross (including rereleases) would be $953.9 million (158.9), its cost $49.7 million ($8.0). It took 114 days to make, 25 days over-schedule. Nominated for ten Oscars, it won five, including best picture and actress (Julie Andrews, cast after the director saw advance footage of Mary Poppins) and director (Robert Wise). Oprah has reunited the film's Von Trapp family, including Andrews, Christopher Plummer and the kids for a show to air October 29--timed to promo Fox's 45th anniversary DVD, natch. Video teaser below. [Hat Tip: Cinema Blend]...
- 10/27/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
By Greg Hernandez
HollywoodNews.com: True confession time: I only watched the episodes of the new “90210″ that Shannen Doherty was on during the show’s first season because, c’mon, it was the return of that bitch Brenda Walsh!
But Brenda wasn’t such a bitch anymore and she hasn’t returned so the show has fallen off my radar.
But it is time to revisit the update of the 90s classic “Beverly Hills 90210″ and they have nothing to do with Brenda. Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello reports that one of the male characters will come out as gay during the show’s upcoming third season.
“We want to address the issue in a real and relatable way,” co-Executive Producer Jennie Urman tells Ausiello exclusively.
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HollywoodNews.com: True confession time: I only watched the episodes of the new “90210″ that Shannen Doherty was on during the show’s first season because, c’mon, it was the return of that bitch Brenda Walsh!
But Brenda wasn’t such a bitch anymore and she hasn’t returned so the show has fallen off my radar.
But it is time to revisit the update of the 90s classic “Beverly Hills 90210″ and they have nothing to do with Brenda. Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello reports that one of the male characters will come out as gay during the show’s upcoming third season.
“We want to address the issue in a real and relatable way,” co-Executive Producer Jennie Urman tells Ausiello exclusively.
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- 7/13/2010
- by Greg Hernandez
- Hollywoodnews.com
True confession time: I have a pop-culture blind spot when it comes to Kate Gosselin. Other than watching her “Paparazzi” routine this past season on Dancing With the Stars — I tuned in just so I’d have a better understanding of my pal Annie Barrett’s episode recaps — I’ve managed to cocoon myself from experiencing this polarizing “celebrity.” Never tuned in to Jon & Kate Plus 8. Never watched her being interviewed by . Saw her mug expressing a variety of emotions (rage, sadness, ennui) on the covers of so many magazines, but can’t say it gave me any insight into...
- 6/6/2010
- by Michael Slezak
- EW.com - PopWatch
True confession. I love Sally Potter, from the great Tilda Swinton-starrer Orlando to the sexy verse-poem Yes. But her films just don’t do a lot of stateside business. Potter’s latest, the fashion-industry film Rage—starring Jude Law in drag, plus Judi Dench, Steve Buscemi and Eddie Izzard—is one of the first feature-length films to premiere on mobile phones. As I neither saw this film at a film fest nor at a screening …...
- 9/22/2009
- Thompson on Hollywood
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