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The Dogfather (2010)
Horrible wife/mother played by absurdly shrill Marie Ward
Marie Ward plays the most horrible, soul-destroying wife. Ward's character of the wife/mother Christine Franks exists to not work, to do her hair before going to the hair stylist and providing a steady non-stop series of verbal attacks on her ridiculed hubby. White male fathers must always be ridiculed by hipsters. The couple's son has a weak heart, treated like a hangnail as he is competing in a paintball club. The poor husband/father is tasked by an evil boss rude on the wife's level to fabricate a physical architectural model in the next 2 weeks. So let's go get a new bulldog to tear up the household, the model, and take his place in bed. Comically, the dad builds a concentration camp dog house that his cold fish relegates him. Meanwhile, the Dogfather plot of a mafioso whose ruby ring is inside the dog goes on long after the ring has been passed. Two henchmen fail like "Home Alone" but mostly against each other. The hubby gets his backyard presentation only to have the dog ruin it. The sympathy from the unenployed wife? "Calm down, you can get another job." I hate her. After all this misery and abuse by the dog and wife, we suddenly have a model family. The mob guy doesn't get his ring or dog back. This movie is so irritating that I kept checking the time left. Good Luck.
Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022)
Austin Powers anyone?
This is A parody of a parody. The two main villains, Wild Knuckles, and Belle Bottom are very reminiscent of Austin Powers' Goldmember and. Foxxy Cleopatra.
I guess I don't get Minion evil worship. Who do you cheer for in this movie? Bad bunch 1, 2, or what's behind door number 3: Gru? Poor kids!!!
I kept watching the clock. She laughed her a off. The continuity with the other movies? Is there canon? Certain items are just off. I loved the Minion BIG eyes.
But no romance. Just more Minion stupidity with funny faces. Your mileage may vary.
I did like Gru seeking a mentor and bouncing from one bad example to another just like the Minions.
Mary Tyler Moore (1970)
Why was Joyce Bulifant MIA?
I.notice about season 5 that Joyce Bullifant begins only being referred to and not appearing on screen. Instead,Georgia Engel appears as a substitute to carry the dialog. Was Bullifant unavailable or on the outs with the producers? Especially egregious was her absence in "I Love A Piano" 10/19/1974, Season 5 / Episode 6 where Murray almost cheats.
Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages (2014)
LOVE this show; wish the music did not drown out her voice.
LOVE this show; wish the music did not drown out her voice. Thank goodness for closed caption. The program is delightfully entertaining like a visual. AMSR. History, festivals, reenactments, and personal recollections round out this dream.
Lord Love a Duck (1966)
A Teen Flick Starring a 38 year old man & a 23 year old woman
It works if you don't examine too closely. Roddy's Alan Musgrave character falls iin love with the idea of Tuesday Weld's Barbara Ann Greene character. What Lola wants, Alan will get for her, calling himself her Mollymauk, an albatross. Perhaps the film should be "Lord Love A Mollymauk." Alan draws this in concrete on a rooftop with Barbara signing her name, almost like a contract with the devil. As a prodigy, Alan is a mystical "road runner cartoon" mix of kindness and cool evil. When she asks him why he does all this for her, he replies, "I get ideas." Alan tells her how to play her divorced dad to buying her a dozen cashmere sweaters to join a high school clique; gets her the boyfriend she marries. The husband gets in the way of a planned movie career so Alan plots many attempts that fail to kill him until finally at graduation, the valedictorian Alan kills the husband with an earth mover and attacks the principal. Alan has been telling the tale from his bed in prison. Along the way, Southern California teen tropes are satirized as are the ages of femininity, drive in religion, teen movies, sexual frustration in the old. Ruth Gordon is her usual free spirit, even as a WASPy lady who "In our family, we don't divorce our husbands, we bury them." Barbara's mother's suicide resulting from Ruth Gordon's visit damning her for being a divorced cocktail waitress registers the only real emotional angst.
Dragnet 1967: Homicide: The Student (1969)
Fascinating episode
SPOILERS
Love the music playing as the librarian reads the snippet. ALL written accounts of this episode omit the actual story the young murderer was reading, which the librarian summarizes. Gustave Flaubert's tale, "Three Short Works" -- the middle tale. "The Legend of Saint-Julian the Hospitaller." A rich, princely husband and wife are enjoying a festival. Their son Julian loves hunting and giving alms to the poor. The parents are visited by two old gray men with two destinies for their son, Jullian. In sackcloth, at her bed, an old man appears."Rejoice, O mother! Thy son shall be a saint." Later, the father is giving alms to beggars when a 'gipsy' appears. "Ah! Ah! Thy son!--great bloodshed--great glory--happy always--an emperor's family." Neither parent discussed either's warning to each other. In church, the devout son Julian is infuriated a mouse appears. He plots, murders, and crushes it. The son Julian grows up finding his sport: love of death, killing, and hunting alone as primitive as possible. After one night's murder of all manner of animals, he delights in attacking a stag, his doe, and their fawn. After the fawn and doe are slaughtered, the wounded stag charges, only to stop and speak a curse before dying. "Accursed! Accursed! Accursed! Some day, ferocious soul, thou wilt murder thy father and thy mother!" Returning home, Julian vows to never hunt. His father encourages him out of the funk. Jullian, in moving a hung sword accidentally strikes his father and aiming at what he considers to be a stork, strikes his mother's hat. Julian runs away; becoming a mercenary. Growing powerful with an army, he marries a king's daughter, becomes peaceful, and never travels. Julian tells his secret to his wife who tells him to hunt and to ignore the curse. Julian hunts all night. Coming home, he sneaks to surprise his wife. Unbeknownst to him, Julian's parents had been looking for him and found his wife and she hosted them in her bed. Believing the couple in the bed to be lovers, he kills them and then realized his mistake in fulfilling the prophecy. Julian gives his wife burial instructions, all his property, attends as a monk, then leaves forever. He wanders, begs, and endures insults. Traveling to the ends of the earth, he becomes a ferryman, creating his own popular service. One day a leper appears and comes aboard. Leper demands food, drink, and warmth. Finally, Julian strips nude face to face. The leper reveals himself as Jesus Christ and takes Julian to Heaven.
Why anyone who hasn't seen a show and wants to remain safe wouldvseekout a review sight is unfathomable. Read the TV Guide. LOL.