Bad Santa Bad-der Santa: The Unrated Version
Billy Bob Thornton is perfectly cast as Willie T. Stokes, a foul-mouthed, sex-crazed, child-hating, hard-drinking safecracker. With his partner in crime (Tony Cox), a midget who plays Santa's Little Helper while masterminding the holiday heist, he plays the rattiest, most misanthropic department store Santa in creation. Under the drinking, swearing, and utter contempt for himself and everyone.... Read Full Review
Mapp & Lucia: Series Two
(1986) Prunella Scales is Elizabeth Mapp, the gossiping matriarch of Tilling-on-Sea, until society widow 'Lucia' Lucas (Geraldine McEwan) moves to town and the two enter into a battle of wits that climazes with a flood that casts them away to seas on an upended table with nothing but each other to survive. This British comedy series, based on the stories of 1920s provincial English society by E.F. Benson, also stars.... Read Full Review
A Woman is a Woman
(France, 1961) Jean-Luc Godard is so revered by fans as a visionary and a revolutionary (and conversely avoided by others as an intellectual snob and a purposely difficult self-reflexive smart ass) that it's easy to forget that he could be funny and frivolous. Godard's third feature is a bizarro new-wave musical done up with Godard's usual jagged style and off-beat humor. Godard muse Anna Karina stars as a bubbly stripper who decides she wants a baby, Jean-Claude Brialy is her reluctant lover.... Read Full Review
Millenium - The Complete First Season
(1996-1997) Coming July 20: Don't blink after the credits of the pilot episode: the sunshine that bathes Frank Black's suburban Seattle home is one of the last times you'll see the sun. Taking a cue from Seven, Chris Carter pushes the shadowy gloom of X-Files into a perpetual visual drizzle in his follow-up series, a crime thriller with horror elements and the shadow of apocalyptic prophecy hanging over it. Lance Henriksen.... Read Full Review