http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/index.html http://media.miamiherald.com/images/logos/rss_sitelogo.gif http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/index.html 140 25 News, sports and entertainment from MiamiHerald.com en-us Copyright 2009 MiamiHerald.com Glenn Garvin: On TV 60 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:09:38 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys miamifeedback@miamiherald.com http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1324941.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1324941.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00 EST American films have been wallowing in erotic voyeurism for, oh, about 103 years, since Thomas Edison's film The Kiss. (Edison's own review of his 47-second film: ``They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.'') http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1320508.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1320508.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00 EST BIG SCREEN 2012 (PG-13) -- Disaster magnet Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) returns to destroy our planet -- again. John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton and Amanda Peet are among the humans trying to make sense of the impending apocalypse. Remember when Irwin Allen made those star-studded disaster flicks in the 1970s? Those were awesome. Emmerich's, not so much. But they sure look awesome. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1311682.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1311682.html Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00 EST Call the Chamber of Commerce Police. Weird Florida: Roads Less Traveled is an egregious insult to our community, a vicious slight of our importance to the state and our role in making Florida a source of national dumbfoundment. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1308421.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1308421.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1308424.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1308424.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:00 EDT BIG SCREEN The Box (PG-13): -- After the spectacular failure of his ambitious second film Southland Tales, writer-director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) goes the simpler, high-concept route with this thriller adapted from a tiny Richard Matheson short story, about a married couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) given a wooden box. Push its button, and you become instantly wealthy -- but someone, somewhere, drops dead. Would you do it? Come on, you know you would. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1303694.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1303694.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Let's be clear here: I am not saying FX's new sitcom The League isn't funny. I'm just saying it's not for everybody. If you're sensitive about deviant sex, for instance -- or even normal sex, if it's had in restaurant restrooms -- you might want to give the show a pass. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1296956.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1296956.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Michael Jackson: This Is It (PG) -- High School Musical director Kenny Ortega, who was collaborating with the singer on a series of London concerts, culls a concert film and cinematic memorial (with some sequences in 3D) from the hundreds of hours of footage taped during Jackson's rehearsals for the shows. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1291103.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1291103.html Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Bill and Betty Garcia moved from New York City to Charlotte, N.C., so their sons could grow up away from the grind and grime of urban life. Now they think they made a mistake. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1286154.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1286154.html Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT BIG SCREEN A Serious Man (R) -- Iconoclastic directors Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Fargo) get personal with this comedy, loosely based on their middle-class Jewish upbringing, about a beleaguered college professor (Michael Stuhlbarg) who seeks advice from three rabbis on how to get control of his topsy-turvy life. As funny and bleak as anything the Coens have ever made, but without all the distancing stylistic tricks and irony. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1279050.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1279050.html Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT I was concerned last year when Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy began ripping one another's steaming entrails out in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a rewrite of Jane Austen's classic novel. I was downright alarmed when the American cinema embraced the sensuality of rotting ambulatory corpses in Zombie Strippers. And I began marking off the days until the Apocalypse after reading the public taunt a friend left her brother while playing last spring's ubiquitous zombie-combat game on Facebook: ``I sucked out your brains and spit them to the floor, you zombie dog!'' http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1274621.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1274621.html Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT BIG SCREEN Law Abiding Citizen (R) -- An angry man (300's Gerard Butler) targets the Philadelphia prosecutor (Jamie Foxx) who orchestrated a plea bargain for the killer of his wife and daughter. Sometimes, words just aren't enough. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1270832.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1270832.html Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Third World governments come and go, trading monarchy for populism for military autocracy and even for the trappings, at least, of democracy. Yet the poor remain poor: from one to four billion of them, depending on whose estimate you accept. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1263522.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1263522.html Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT You know it's late in the fall TV season when a network can't keep its genre cliches straight. CBS' Three Rivers, fall's final new show, has an irascible surgeon snapping at a hospital bureaucrat: ``Never get between a doctor and his donut!'' I haven't checked, but I'll bet over on CSI: Miami, Horatio Caine is brooding about the cost of malpractice insurance and the promiscuity of ER nurses. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1263529.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1263529.html Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT BIG SCREEN Couples Retreat (PG-13) -- Four married couples (among them Vince Vaughn, Malin Akerman, Jason Bateman, Kristin Davis and Jon Favreau) vacation on an island that specializes in relationship counseling. More than specializes, actually: The therapy is mandatory. The cast is promising, and Favreau and Vaughn co-wrote the screenplay, so the movie should be funny. But the trailer looks deadly. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1260502.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1260502.html Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:00 EDT Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that Norman Bates isn't about to burst out of the bedroom and slice you like a Benihana filet. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1257520.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1257520.html Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT Hey, ignore the fact that I don't have six Emmys or a zillion dollars, and pretend just for a second that I'm Rod Serling: You're traveling through another dimension -- a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land where a comedy can die on one network and come back as three separate shows on another. That's right: Welcome to the Back to You Zone. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1255479.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1255479.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT The Hollywood writers' strike has been over for more than a year now, but Trauma seems to be some sort of final shot across the studios' bow: See, guys, this is what a show would look like if you tried to make it without screenwriters. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1251702.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1251702.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT All you really need to know about Ken Burns' newest marathon documentary you can learn from the title: <I>The National Parks: America's Best Idea</I>. Really, the <I>best</I>? Better than the polio vaccine, air conditioning, the Internet, the airplane, liberal democracy, rock 'n' roll, bourbon and the abolition of slavery? Better than <I>toilet paper</I>? http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1251708.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1251708.html Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT BIG SCREEN Capitalism: A Love Story (R) -- Michael Moore's most impassioned cinematic plea for activism yet explores the recent banking and housing collapse and the increasingly larger -- and more destructive -- role corporations have played in the U.S. government since the Reagan era. Moore does an impressive job of compressing a complicated subject into two highly watchable and entertaining hours, replete with man-on-the-street examples of the toll of the recession on the middle class. http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1249047.html http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/1249047.html Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:00 EDT When The CW last spring canceled <I>Everybody Hates Chris</I> and let <I>The Game</I> move over to BET, it created a startling gap: For the first time in nobody-can-remember-how-many years, there wasn't a single black family sitcom on broadcast television. A network staple since Diahann Carroll broke the color barrier in 1968 with <I>Julia</I> was, to borrow a perhaps infelicitous phrase, gone with the wind.