Political correctness is to comedy what Kryptonite is to Superman. Nothing buzzkills a laugh more than someone (usually a white liberal) insisting...
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When Jeremy Brett made his debut as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal detective Sherlock Holmes in Granada Television’s The Adventures of...
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For those unfamiliar with the term, a “shaggy dog story” is a joke with an elaborate set-up and a non-sequester punch line that, more...
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Brainwash (originally broadcast on Sept. 21, 1997) is basically the La Femme Nikita version of Richard Condon’s classic Cold War thriller The...
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For decades, television producers have been trying to come up with a small-screen equivalent of the James Bond movies, such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E....
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It was eerily appropriate that the television version of La Femme Nikita broadcast its last episode in March 2001, six months before the Sept. 11...
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As has been well-documented elsewhere, the insane free-wheeling anarchy of the Marx Brothers’ early Paramount movies was neutered when they...
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As recently mentioned in this blog, DVD movie box sets tend to be mixed bags combining both winners and losers. Paramount Pictures’ Dean Martin...
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The 2008 action thriller Taken, which has just been released on DVD, boasts some very talented people, especially star Liam Neeson and...
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Thunderball, the fourth movie in the James Bond series, originally began life as an original screenplay that author Ian Fleming wrote in collaboration...
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