Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. Can we find anything of value in the muck of b-movies, ambitious failures and exploitative crap-fests? We’re going to find out in Dispatches from Instant View Purgatory. What’re we watching:…
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45 years ago this month, a new television show debuted “The Man Trap” aired on NBC. Star Trek premiered with this episode, beginning one of the most successful franchises in television history, including five different series, along with 11 movies. To celebrate the 45th anniversary of…
Ten years ago, FX was one of the most useless and rightly forgotten networks on basic cable, showing non-stop reruns of some of the worst sitcoms of the late ’90s, namely Just Shoot Me, the later, Charlie Sheen-dominated seasons of Spin City, Dharma and Greg…
Peoria has always been a city that was in desperate need of realizing that it had become a college town. Barring a few friendly establishments downtown and the rote businesses that catered solely to college students around campus, there’s not much to let residents know…
Services like Netflix and YouTube have made it easy to see the movies that have recently come to DVD and be able to enjoy them whenever you desire. Of course, instant view services are also loaded with discarded and forgotten films that only occasionally show…
Like nearly all of his films, Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” is hyper violent, disturbing and cerebral as an examination of violence in culture. But “Straw Dogs” was not a box office success. According to imdb.com, the film only grossed just over $11 million worldwide. In…
Based on the international best seller by David Nicholls, “One Day,” a romantic drama starring Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway, proves opposites can attract. “One Day” is an extraordinary film with a heart -wrenching love story and great depth of detail. The film takes place…
Like nearly all of his films, Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs” is hyper violent, disturbing and, debatably, cerebral as an examination of violence in culture. A remake of the film will be released September 16. But “Straw Dogs” was not a box office success. According to…
Services like Netflix and YouTube have made the most recent films readily available to anyone. It’s easy to see the movies that have recently come to DVD and be able to enjoy them whenever you desire. Of course, instant view services are also loaded with…
Updating an iconic character for the 21st century is no easy task, especially one who has existed since 1887. Yet “Sherlock,” which aired on the BBC in England, then PBS in the States, takes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective Sherlock Holmes and partner Dr.…