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Television Review | 'Apollo Wives': The Women Left on Earth When Space Called Men

The 10 women striding into an Arizona resort for a reunion are a group guaranteed to turn heads. Handsome, sharp and sure of themselves, mostly in their 70s, they look as if they met in college or were the members of a particularly effective Junior ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BBC America,  Pete Conrad

Television Review | 'Find My Family': Reuniting Lost Relations, Leaving Time for Tears

In June ABC ordered a new show called “Let’s Dance,” based on a British reality series, in which celebrities would replicate famous dance routines. A programming executive said, “The tone of this is fun.” On Nov. 4 ABC announced that “Let’s Dance” ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Movie Review | 'My Dear Enemy': Feelings Close to the Surface

Lee Yoon-ki’s “My Dear Enemy,” which opens on Friday for one week at the Museum of Modern Art, may confound your expectations of a South Korean film: no convoluted flashbacks, no doppelgängers, no puzzling narrative leaps, no violence or sex or ghosts. ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Museum of Modern Art,  Hong Sang-soo

Happy Beaujolais Day! Now go celebrate

Let me be the first to wish you a happy Beaujolais Day and say those magic words "Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrivé!" the bistro will showcase the Beaujolais wine from Louis Tete ($8.50 glass/$32 bottle), and offer a special prix fixe menu (priced at $35 ...

From MIKE HALE, Monterey County Herald,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  Food & Wine Magazine

Television Review | 'Terror in Mumbai': Using Tapes and a Timeline to Trace the Mumbai Massacre

“The first 360-degree view of terrorism” that’s the promise the writer Fareed Zakaria makes at the beginning of “Terror in Mumbai,” a new HBO documentary about the attacks in that Indian city last November that left more than 170 people dead. In ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: HBO,  Fareed Zakaria,  PBS,  Paul Greengrass

Movie Review | 'Red Cliff': It’s Good Guys vs. Bad Guys on a China-Size Scale

In a six-year stretch beginning in 1986, John Woo released a series of balletic, ultraviolent crime thrillers that would rank among the most influential films of the last quarter-century. They took a hyperkinetic, Hong Kong style of action moviemaking ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Woo,  Akira Kurosawa,  Takeshi Kaneshiro,  Wong Kar-wai,  Ang Lee

Television Review | 'Lopez Tonight': Late-Night Revolution? In Taste, Perhaps

“The revolution starts right now!” George Lopez proclaimed on Monday on the premiere of “Lopez Tonight,” his new 11 p.m. talk show on TBS. After watching the program’s first week, it was hard to see what exactly the revolution consisted of. The latest ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: TBS,  George Lopez,  Jamie Foxx,  Jimmy Kimmel,  Khloe Kardashian

Movie Review | 'Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon': Business Boosterism

Mary Mazzio’s “Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon,” a tirelessly inspirational documentary about teenagers competing in a nationwide business contest, is playing in seven cities in the theaters of one of its corporate sponsors, AMC Entertainment. (The ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mary Mazzio,  AMC Entertainment

Movie Review | 'The Hand of Fatima': Critique of a Critic

Fans of the writer and musician Robert Palmer, who was chief pop-music critic of The New York Times from 1981 to 1988, should not come to the documentary “The Hand of Fatima” expecting a comprehensive look at his life, his writing or his role in ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Palmer,  New York Times Company

Television Review | 'Masterpiece Contemporary: Collision': Unsnarling a Knotty Ball of Secrets, British Style

“Collision,” a two-week “Masterpiece Contemporary” mini-series beginning on Sunday on PBS, raises an old but always pertinent question: why are the British so much better at this sort of thing than we are? Douglas Henshall as an officer investigating a ...

From MIKE HALE, The New York Times,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: BBC,  PBS,  HBO,  Jesse Stone,  Anthony Horowitz

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