Debra Messing reportedly was determined to exorcise any trace of her “Will & Grace” character Grace Adler from her persona while shooting her mostly inspired (if a bit transparently shallow) new six-hour USA Network miniseries “The Starter Wife,” and darned if she doesn’t pull it off.
Messing is magnetic and alluring in the adaptation of Gigi […]
French filmmaker Lola Doillon’s charming but slight rites-of-passage film “Just About Love” follows two likable teenage girls who make a pact to lose their virginity before summer is over. In fact, they manage it before school’s out.
There’s nothing new in the familiar tale — which screened at the recentCannes Film Festival — but it is […]
R. Kelly, “Double Up” (Jive): In song, R. Kelly’s sexual shenanigans are so outrageous, they border on parody. Listen to tunes like “The Greatest Sex,” “Half on a Baby” or “Remote Control” — where he compares making love to operating a stereo — and it’s as if the writers of “Saturday Night Live” had decided […]
A couple of years ago, Steve Bochco’s FX series “Over There” did something never before attempted: It dramatized the lives of soldiers fighting a war while the fighting was still taking place. It was a brilliant series, but it lasted only one season. Some postmortems suggested that America was uneasy about watching a war claim […]
Disney wants to breathe some excitement into the TV-DVD business, which after several years of explosive growth is beginning to lose some of its luster.
The studio is taking the unusual step of announcing all its upcoming marquee TV-DVD releases at once and packing into them a wealth of novel extras, from Spanish-language audio tracks to […]
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, Jorge Luis Borges, and Guillermo del Toro’s own unlimited imagination, Pan’s Labyrinth is a fairytale for adults. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) may only be 12, but the worlds she inhabits, both above and below ground, are dark as anything del Toro has conjured. Set in rural Spain, circa 1944, Ofelia and […]
Forget any off-screen impressions you may have of Mel Gibson, and experience Apocalypto as the mad, bloody runaway train that it is. The story is set in the pre-Columbian Maya population: one village is brutally overrun, its residents either slaughtered or abducted, by a ruling tribe that needs slaves and human sacrifices. We focus on […]
Not really a movie or documentary, The Secret is more of a video seminar, a presentation featuring a series of authors, philosophers, doctors, quantum physicists, entrepreneurs, and spiritual practitioners expounding on the powers of The Secret (probably the most well-known of the presenters is Jack Canfield, author of Chicken Soup for the Soul and The […]
With an unprecedented production budget of $25 million, and from the makers of Blue Planet: Seas of Life, comes the epic story of life on Earth. Five years in production, over 2,000 days in the field, using 40 cameramen filming across 200 locations, shot entirely in high definition, this is the ultimate portrait of […]
Nyko’s Charge Station for Wii is a great wayto save money on batteries. This dock features twin rechargeable battery packs for the Wii Remote — just connect the Wii Remotes and let them sit until you’re ready to play. Charges two Wiimotes at once.
The Wii Component Cable links your Wii console to your TV, allowing you to view and enjoy your games with the best possible image display. Component video splits the signal into three separate channels of video information for the ultimate connection quality. The cable includes five connectors - three for video, and two for left […]
The Wii Remote Controller makes gaming as accessible to people of all ages and all abilities. Nintendo fused the familiarity of a remote control with the sophistication of motion-sensing technology — creating a multifunctional device limited only by the imagination. In a tennis game, it serves as your racket you swing with your arm. In […]
