a couple on a backpacking trip trying to salvage their relationship, who stumble upon the mysteriously cheerful town of Schmigadoon. As it turns out, the community is stuck in a Golden Age-era musical populated with all the tropes you would expect, including the handsome rogue, the farmer's...
Netflix’s slate for November 2023 has much to offer as the transition from Halloween to Thanksgiving and eventually Christmas begins. Many favorite movies such asJennifer Garner’s “13 Going on 30” and “The Big Lebowski” arrive Nov. 1, whileGarner’s new movie “The Family Switch” ro...
Meandered a bit in the middle and collapsed underneath sloppy and lazy tropes and writing in the end. Revelations were in fact given away very early and never fully fleshed out. My wife and I both looked at each other at one point in episode 8 and said, wait. They aren't going this...
Theatre inNew York City. This solo style was honed further in the resorts of theCatskill Mountainsregion ofNew Yorkin the 1930s and ’40s. The predominantly Jewish comedians of the so-calledBorscht Beltdeveloped abrashgag-filledmonologuestyle that played on familiar comic tropes—the bossy mother...
(the excellent Laura Prepon), and when Vause needed to plea her sentence down, she gave up Piper. The story is based on the real-life events of Piper Kerman, whose book of the same title was the inspiration, but the truth is that the screen version is miles better. Schilling is the ...
41. THE AWFUL TRUTH The Kids are alone in the house, and make a discovery. - One of my favorite eps of all TV. 44. CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS - The Kids are alone at home again - things happen involving Goofy Glue. I'll be watching this show for the rest of my life (thanks ...
To start, players pick four castmates to throw together into the titular Crush House. There’s a diverse cast of characters to choose from that play onreality TV show tropes, like a lecherous playboy that’s sure to bring some sexual tension to the house. Naturally, some personalities will...
Almost every aspect of Borderlands feels borrowed and unoriginal, simply a shameless regurgitation of supposedly popular genre tropes wrapped in bad costumes and disappointing CGI. The film somehow manages to look both obviously ill-advisedly expensive and awkwardly ‘cheap’ at the same time. The pl...
We’ve all seen so many of them that the tropes are tired, and the jokes have been rehashed so many times we can see them coming long before the laugh track tells us we should be reacting to them. To actually make an impression on viewers in this genre, a sho...
This is the version of the four turtles with names taken from Italian masters that introduced a lot of what we think of as being tropes of the world. If not for the cartoon, they wouldn’t even be into pizza. Imagine that! 25 of 26 “Beavis and Butt-head” MTV OK, so you ...