Month: February 2008

Lipstick Jungle

Lipstick Jungle Channel: NBC Time: 10/9c Premieres: Thu, Feb 7 Starring: Brooke Shields, Lindsay Price, Kim Raver, Andrew McCarthy, Julian Sands, Paul Blackthorne, David Norona, David Alan Basche Synopsis: The other show that is like Sex and the City, but it is the one that comes from the follow-up...

Knight Rider

NBC is trying out if people want to watch the show again by having it come back as a movie that can also serve as a pilot for relaunching the show with the kid of Michael Knight working with the creator of KITT’s daughter to find out who is...

Eli Stone

Eli Stone Channel: ABC Airs: Thursday @10pm Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Victor Garber, Natasha Henstridge, Loretta Devine, Sam Jaeger, James Saito, Matt Letscher, Julie Gonzalo Synopsis: A lawyer starts to have visions after he is diagnosed with a medical condition. He doesn’t know if his visions are related to...

Stardust

Stardust Author: Neil Gaiman In old English times, young Tristan has fallen in love with the most beautiful girl in the village of Wall. She has promised him a kiss if he retrieves a fallen star, so he goes off searching for it. A quick read, written like the...

Duchess of Langeais

The Duchess of Langeais Directed: Jacques RivetteStarring: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu A woman flirts with a general who proclaims his love for her, but she does not return the love while teasing that she might one day. When he is finally fed up, she realizes she is in love...

Irina Palm

Irina Palm Directed: Sam Garbarski Starring: Marianne Faithfull, Miki Manojlovic, Kevin Bishop A middle-age woman takes a job at a sex club in order to pay for her grandson’s experimental surgery that might save his life. Seen at the Portland International Film Festival. What could be depressing is a...

Family Ties

Family Ties Directed: Kim Tae-yong Starring: So-ri Moon, Hyo-jin Kong Three different stories told at different times and tied together at the end. Seen at the Portland International Film Festival. The first story is about a young woman who is excited when her brother who has been away with...

You, The Living

You, the Living Directed: Roy Andersson Starring: Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Bjorn Englund Short sketches in the daily lives of the Swedish. Seen at the Portland International Film Festival. Poor movie. It has the bad luck that I decided to get violently ill halfway through it. No idea what...

Survivor

Survivor Author: Chuck Palahniuk Tender Branson is the last surviving member of the Creedish cult, but not for long as he has hijacked a plane which he intends to crash after he finishes telling his life story into the flight recorder. The book starts and ends with Tender Branson...

MWG: Always – Feb Movie

Hi Everyone! I am choosing the movie for February – sorry that I am late! The movie will be Always – directed by Steven Spielberg, staring Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus. Hope you enjoy! Netflix Synopsis: Director Steven Spielberg delivers an old-fashioned romantic adventure, as firefighting pilot Richard Dreyfuss...