Note: I’m single, ladies. Special Victims Unit often likes to take complex issues with no easy answer and turn them into garbage. Why not? There’s nothing saying the show has to be good; it just has to satisfy the war criminals at General Electric. As long as the ratings remain tolerable, which in the Frank’s
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I originally meant to write about the 1985 creature feature Ghoulies, which answered the question on America’s lips at the time: “what if Gremlins looked like garbage?” and serves as the screen debut for Mariska Hargitay. It’s terrible, a “horror-comedy” that instead means “cheap looking and irritating”. Then life interceded in a manner I thought
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NOTE: This column was written in front of a comatose studio audience. After enough seasons of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, one’s interest in the characters calcifies to either indifference or outright hate. Munch and Ice-T don’t grate because they rarely have anything to do; likewise with Cragen and Dr. Huang. They function to
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“There is a television program, an elegant, enigmatic element of entertainment that engaged and ensnared the collective consciousness of American culture. That very program challenged, changed, and contorted culture considerably for decades afterwards. That program is, The Twilight Zone.” Today at exactly 10:00pm will be the fifty-fifth anniversary of the aforementioned, The Twilight Zone.
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If there’s one thing I love more than procedural police fiction in which writers use current events as an outline for scripts, it’s horror movies. Not many are very good, yet bad horror movies are much more fun to watch than shitty comedies or shitty Holocaust dramas. In the malaise-filled days during my college education,
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