Barbara (2012), directed by Christian Petzold, stars Nina Hoss as a doctor from East Berlin who has been banished to a nowhere village in rural East Germany for carrying on an affair with a man from West Germany. You have to piece together the time and place from the details (this is before The Wall […]
Originally made for the PlayStation Network, Powers is an adaptation of the graphic novel series by Brian Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, a superhero series from the perspective of the human police responsible for taking on super-powered criminals. Sharlto Copley (of District 9 and The A-Team movie) plays Christian Walker, the top cop of the […]
The Carol Burnett Show has launched its own official YouTube Channel. There are no full-length episodes. Rather, in keeping with the YouTube aesthetic, it presents select sketches from the show starring Burnett, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner. There are also interviews with celebrities and series guest stars from the Carol Burnett […]
The O.C., the Fox series about the attractive and affluent youth of Orange County from the mid-2000s that introduced audiences to Ben McKenzie (Gotham) and Rachel Bilson (Hart of Dixie), is now available to stream on CW Seed. Yes, another network is trying to turn its own in-house website into an exclusive streaming service, this […]
In 1994, Roger Corman was hired to produce a low-budget feature based on Marvel’s comic book “The Fantastic Four.” Never seen it? No surprise, it was never intended to be seen. The whole production was merely a legal exercise by the producer to keep hold of the rights to the property, though apparently nobody told […]
Amazon Pilot Season again, though this one is limited to just two hopefuls: Sneaky Pete, created by David Shore (House, M.D.), and Casanova, the first small-screen series from filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie). Sneaky Pete stars Giovanni Ribisi as a con man and an ex-convict who ducks a debt by appropriating the identity of his old […]
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, the streaming series hosted by Jerry Seinfeld for Crackle, concludes its sixth series with a conversation with Stephen Colbert (with his Colbeard intact) and a drive in a 1964 Morgan Plus 4 Roadster. The web channel’s signature original series is basically a spin on the traditional chat show. It just […]
The truth is out there and Fox is streaming it. They just announced that they will be presenting every episode of the original The X-Files in order, one per day, until the TV reboot debuts on January 24, 2016. That’s 201 episodes in 201 days, starting with the pilot on Tuesday, July 7, streaming for […]
The new Star Wars Episode VII trailer is all the buzz right now, but have you seen this musical tribute to the original Star Wars from the Donny and Marie, the seventies variety show starring Donny and Marie Osmond and produced by Sid and Marty Krofft? It’s the big finale from the third season premiere […]
Penny Dreadful is currently the most persuasive argument for me to get Showtime. The Gothic horror mystery set in Victorian London takes the premise that the characters and supernatural beings of 19th century horror literature—Victor Frankenstein (and his creature), Dracula, Dorian Gray— all exist in the real world. I saw the entire first series on […]
