Winner of the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy its first year out, Arrested Development is the kind of sitcom that gives you hope for television. A mockumentary-style exploration of the beleaguered Bluth family, it’s one of those idiosyncratic shows that doesn’t rely on a laugh track or a studio audience; it’s shot more like a TV […]
Guarding Tess
Nicolas Cage stars as Doug Chesney, in this drama-comedy about a Secret Service agent unable to get out of his assignment watching over an exasperating former first lady Tess Carlisle (Shirley MacLaine). The two get along like oil and water, but when Carlisle, a bored and feisty widow, ends up kidnapped, Cage’s agent becomes a […]
Gilligan’s Island: The Series
During what was supposed to be a three-hour tour, the S.S. Minnow is shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island following a typhoon. The seven castaways include the Minnow’s blustery captain (Alan Hale Jr.), his bumbling first mate Gilligan (Bob Denver), a millionaire couple named the Howells (Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer), curvaceous movie star Ginger […]
American Graffiti
Here’s how critic Roger Ebert described the unique and lasting value of George Lucas’s 1973 box-office hit, American Graffiti: “[It’s] not only a great movie but a brilliant work of historical fiction; no sociological treatise could duplicate the movie’s success in remembering exactly how it was to be alive at that cultural instant.” The time […]
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