Turner Classic Movies adds one more budget-saver to its "Greatest Classic Films" line of four-film, two-disc collections, although by this point, they might be stretching things a bit with the "classic" moniker. Do we really consider "Mogambo" to be essential cinema?

Indeed, all four of the film collected for the new "Romance" come off as also-rans in the world of classics, although results vary. "Now, Voyager" gets by (and then some) on the strength of its performances, and "Love in the Afternoon" is light enough to remain afloat long after its story runs out of steam. "Splendor in the Grass," meanwhile, is a dated bore. And then there's "Mogambo," which, well, is "Mogambo."

The set offers the films on two double-sided discs (housed in a single-wide keepcase with a hinged tray). For all four movies, these are simple re-releases of their previous individual discs, which sometimes means we...Read the entire review

A long time ago, I learned of the existence of a 1933 version of "Alice in Wonderland," featuring the likes of Cary Grant, W.C. Fields, Edward Everett Horton, Charles Ruggles, and Edna May Oliver, with direction by Norman Z. McLeod and a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Long unavailable on home video, I could only dream of what wonders the star-studded film contained.

It turns out, none.

It's not enough to say this "Alice in Wonderland" is creepy. All renditions are, by their very nature. But this certain creepiness stems from its attempts to build a world of grotesqueries that bring strange children's book illustrations to life, but only half-way: the papier-mâché creatures that fill the screen display frozen faces that exaggerate their lack of realism. Add to this a decision to emphasize all the yelling and whining and just plain loudness of the story without buffering it with humo...Read the entire review

Did we really need the biplane?

Produced for BBC One and originally broadcast in December 2008, "The 39 Steps" is the fourth film version of John Buchan's adventure novel. Like those previous attempts, this, too, veers away from the book, this time adding cutesy Hitchcock homages, like the shot-by-shot reworking of the "North by Northwest" crop duster scene. Unnecessary? Absolutely. Entertaining? Not really. Up to this point, the film was holding its own decently enough as an endearingly stuffy and adequately thrilling yarn. Then comes the biplane, and we're lifted out of the story as the movie nudges us deep in our ribs, reminding us that we'd be better off watching Robert Donat.

The basics remain the same: Richard Hannay (Rupert Penry-Jones), a former intelligence officer and veteran of the Second Boer War, is struggling to adjust to high society back in London. Ah, but adventure calls ...Read the entire review

"Lego: The Adventures of Clutch Powers" is less like a movie - the first Lego movie ever, so says the cover art - and more like a half-commercial, half-first chapter in some endless CG cartoon universe. I could easily see Clutch and his team signing up for a regular Saturday morning adventure. Indeed, the movie itself is so disjointed, it feels like several cartoons pasted together.

Worse, the script reads like bad Lego fan fiction. (Ya know, I wouldn't doubt that there's Lego fan fiction floating around out there in the darkest corners of the internet.) Scene after scene features strange diversions where characters discuss building things from Legos. In one sequence, a bridge troll challenges the hero to a mental Lego puzzle, dialogue given to bricks of certain shapes and sizes, the insider lingo of the most serious of Lego fanatic. It's as if we've wandered into the middle of a Lego convention...Read the entire review

Before you get all excited about seeing Ray Charles in his prime, rocking the paint off the walls in "Ballad in Blue," take note of just how odd this forgotten 1964 film is: Charles, who gets top billing, is essentially a supporting character in his own movie; the rest revolves around a well-to-do English family and their blind son. Behind the camera is Paul Henreid, the "Casablanca" star who spent most of the 1950s and 60s directing television projects and the occasional motion picture. As such, it's a very dry, very white British drama with Ray Charles airlifted in.

Henreid's greatest accomplishment here isn't the drama, but the way he stages Charles' numerous performances. (The singer plays himself; the story finds him in the middle of a European tour.) The filmmaker gets very minimal - Charles and/or his band popping out of an empty, black frame - which allows the songs to wow us on their ow...Read the entire review

"Ian McKellen: Acting Shakespeare" is more than just about, well, acting Shakespeare. It's a most unique one-man show: part lecture, part performance, part anecdotes, with McKellen playing the life of the party, if I can use such a term without making the actor sound like a boor. He's anything but. Lively, funny, excited to be sharing his love for the Bard and for the stage.

Originally conceived in 1977 as an expansion of a previous solo performance, "Acting Shakespeare" is built around a series of stage-themed monologues: the "All the world's a stage" speech from "As You Like It," Macbeth's woes of the tale told by an idiot, Hamlet's instructions for his "Mousetrap," etc. He performed this show intermittently for the next five years in both theaters and lecture halls, finally taking i...Read the entire review

I suppose it all started with the question marks.

When John Nathan-Turner took over as producer of "Doctor Who" in 1980, one of his first demands was to upgrade the title character's costume by adding little question marks to the shirt collars. Cute and playful, sure, and certainly nothing weirder than a mammoth scarf or ruffled shirts - but also a bit too obvious in its winky-winky attitude. It's a visual gag that slaps you in the face and asks if you "get it."

Then came the celery on the lapel, and again: we get the joke Nathan-Turner was trying to make, and Fifth Doctor Peter Davison somehow managed to make it work, but, you know, still. Yeesh.

By the time Davison was replaced with Sixth Doctor Colin Baker, the show became one long parade of good ideas executed very, v...Read the entire review

I know only a little of the "St. Trinian's" UK film series or the Ronald Searle cartoons that inspired it, but I can sure know excellent casting when I see it, and this 2007 franchise reboot has it in spades: Rupert Everett in Alistair Sim's old double role as both the school headmistress and her oily brother; Colin Firth as an uptight government official; future Bond girl Gemma Arterton as the girls' saucy ringleader; Toby Jones as one of those weird little characters only Toby Jones can play; Stephen Fry as the quip-tastic host of a quiz show; and Russell Brand, whom I never really liked yet seems born to play greasy spiv Flash Harry.

But oh, how the movie squanders such a cast. The actors are left grasping for laughs as the script tries to figure out just what it wants to be. Devili...Read the entire review

Before it was a big screen classic, before it was a mainstay of the stage, Reginald Rose's "Twelve Angry Men" was a standout episode of the CBS anthology series "Studio One." Broadcast live in September 1954, this was America's first glimpse at what would become a 20th century classic.

While Rose (who won an Emmy for his efforts here, as would director Franklin Schaffner and actor Robert Cummings) would expand on his script for later adaptations, the shorter original story remains the same: locked away in a hot, hot room, a jury deliberates what appears to be a simple case of murder; things grow complicated when a lone juror refuses to vote "guilty."

It's essentially two stories at once. The first is the murder case itself, involving a teen accused of killing his father; as the ...Read the entire review

To clarify: by "undead," they mean vampires, not zombies. Don't worry, the main character had to ask, too.

Jordan Galland's comedy "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead" is almost as dementedly clever as the Tom Stoppard play that inspired its title. The script is a tangled web of ideas and references that constantly fold over upon themselves, displaying both sharp literary intelligence and tongue-in-cheek pop silliness; it even goes meta by name-checking Stoppard in the story's play-within-the-movie - then showing a hipster audience smirking at the "clever" reference-joke.

Jake Hoffman plays Julian Marsh, a twentysomething slacker and incurable womanizer who lives in the spare room of his dad's medical office. He takes a job at a low-rent off-Broadway theater, directing "Ros...Read the entire review

"Allons-y!"

The five "Doctor Who" specials broadcast intermittently between Christmas 2008 and New Year's 2010 had the uneniable task of following the series' enormously successful fourth season finale, which wrapped up the series' revival so wonderfully. The finale was appropriately titled "Journey's End," and it brought back all of the major players from David Tennant's years in the title role. The episode offered a grand farewell for every character and presented fans with an appropriate sense of closure.

There was just one problem: neither Tennant, producer/head writer Russell T. Davies, nor producer Julie Gardner were quite finished with the franchise. The plan was for season five - featuring Tennant's replacement, a newly regenerated Eleventh Doctor, to be played by...Read the entire review

I'll admit: I like Dean Cain. Sure, he's become a B-movie mainstay, one of the undisputed kings of third-rate direct-to-video and made-for-basic-cable schlock, a guy whose very name in the opening credits guarantees a cheesetastic time. But he's also a heck of a natural charmer, and that helps quite a bit when you're crawling your way through "10.5 Apocalypse" or "Firetrap" or "The Dog Who Saved Christmas."

His latest is "The Gambler, the Girl and the Gunslinger," produced for (who else?) the Hallmark Channel. He plays Shea McCall, a fast-talkin', sharp-shootin' city slicker who rides into town and beats the local drunk at a round of poker. It's enough to win him half a ranch, which he gladly accepts, much to the dismay of the ranch's other owner, B.J. Stoker (James Tupper). The cowboy...Read the entire review

It's tempting to call "B.S." on the makers of "See You After School" when they repeatedly deny having even seen the 1987 cult favorite "Three O'Clock High," let alone having plagiarized from it. But let's give them the benefit of the doubt. Let's say they truly thought they had concocted an original storyline - completely possible, since the two films aren't too much alike beyond their shared premise, and it's highly probable that two writers working from the same idea but two decades and thousands of miles apart will come up with a few similar jokes. Let's let the filmmakers have all of that. We're still left with a painfully unfunny movie, cheaply constructed and woefully acted. When a movie is this terrible, plagiarism is the least of its concerns.

Written and directed by first-time...Read the entire review

As modern adventures go, the six-episode BBC series "Bonekickers" definitely ranks among the silliest. But it's a wonderful silliness, slick and exciting, able to toss off dialogue like "There's a killer snake on the loose!" without apologizing for itself.

"Bonekickers" is the creation of Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah, who made this their rather odd choice for following the success of their critical darling "Life on Mars." The series follows a quartet of archeologists - stern, driven Gillian Magwilde (Julie Graham), brainy madman Gregory Parton (Hugh Bonneville), earnest Ben Ergha (Adrian Lester), and innocent intern Viv Davis (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) - as they piece together mysteries of the past; each episode offers its own antique adventure, with a through-story involving Gillian's obs...Read the entire review

My big fear was that the newly minted remake of the 1980 musical "Fame" would completely miss the point. Ads hyped a "Generation Fame" website, as if reiterating the "everyone deserves the right to be famous" mantra of The Kids These Days, with their reality TV and their YouTube and their celebutantes who are famous just for being famous. Compare that state of mind to the original film, a gritty, depressing tale of disillusionment; even the 1982-87 TV series retained the notion that the life of an artist is filled with hard work and disappointment, a world where gratification is never instant. Would this new "Fame," now PG-rated and eager to please audiences weaned on "High School Musical," be willing to tackle such issues?

For some part, surprisingly, yes, it actually is. It's a shini...Read the entire review

When you call your movie "The Other Man," there's no point in putting off the eventual discovery of the other man. And when you put Antonio Banderas in your opening credits, there's no point in pretending someone else might be the other man.

Directed by Richard Eyre, the film only gets one right. It's just a handful of minutes before loving husband Peter (Liam Neeson) uncovers a racy email sent to his wife Lisa (Laura Linney) by a mysterious "Ralph." After all, we know what's coming, so why put it off?

But Eyre, co-writing with Charles Wood (and adapting the short story by Bernhard Schlink), thinks it'd be jumping into things too quickly to lead Peter to Banderas' character, even though we're waiting impatiently for such a moment. We're tossed a red herring involving Lisa's co-worker, but it's just buying time - the movie doesn't really kick into gear until Peter scoots off to Italy to co...Read the entire review

The character in "Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging" with which I most identify is, obviously, the doughy, goofy, more-than-slightly embarrassing dad, played by Alan Davies. Except Davies' character seems more at ease with seeing his daughter barrel headfirst into adolescence than I think I ever will be; there were times during "Perfect Snogging" that I, the parent of a girl inching her way toward puberty, viewed it as a horror film.

Ah, but it's such a sweet, funny movie, too, completely honest about hormones and young love and sexual curiosity. It also completely unravels in the final act as it gives in to the tween-flick clichés of impossibly big parties and the comeuppances of bitchy rivals, but no matter: until then, it's an absolute delight.

As some of you younger reader...Read the entire review

At first, "Gretchen" seems little more than a quirky, self-aware portrait of a weirdo, ready to laugh loudly at the social awkwardness of its title character: the nerdy clothes, the nervous tics, the all-around loser-ness of her. But then, we realize just how much the movie likes Gretchen, and how much it's genuinely interested in making her a complete character, not just a laughable caricature. This is a movie that digs for the reality within the comedy, eventually discovering a sweet sincerity that wins us over, and how.

The film marks the feature debut of writer/director Steve Collins, who expands on story and character ideas he originally crafted for two short films. Like those shorts, "Gretchen" stars Courtney Davis in the title role, a nervously sweet outsider, the quiet dork in ...Read the entire review

"I've always loved the night sky. As a child, I would lie in bed gazing out my window and fall asleep counting the stars and dream about what might be out there. But I never dreamt that one day I would find out..."

With great anticipation we welcome back Sarah Jane Smith, freelance journalist, traveler in time and space, friend of the Doctor, and defender of Earth (or, at least, Bannerman Road). Her initial season of "The Sarah Jane Adventures" was great fun indeed, and as we move into a second batch of ripping tales, we discover an even greater character depth, themes of family slipped in among the alien invasions.

The season is a batch of hellos and goodbyes, as Maria Jackson (Yasmin Paige) and her family leave the series, replaced by new neighbors the Chandras, among t...Read the entire review

Here's one of the jokes in "The Accidental Husband," the long-on-the-shelf romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman:

"It's a small world!"
"Constantly shrinking! It must be the global warming."

This, ladies and gentlemen, is the sort of movie we're dealing with.

The whole thing is a manic, asinine, and utterly annoying ball of genre cliché, so much so that you could almost pass it off as parody. A string of schemes and misunderstandings and "wacky" situations passes itself off as plot, while a collection of shrill dunderheads fills the spaces usually reserved for characters. The script treats both characters and viewers as complete idiots, leading us by hand through a worthless plot and tiresome punchlines.

Thurman plays Dr. Emma Lloyd, a successful radio ho...Read the entire review

I had forgotten just how angry the country was on November 2, 2004. Nobody trusted anybody on election day. Party reps stalked the polls with the watchful eye of paranoia, convinced the other side was bound to fudge the results any way they could; others went from precinct to precinct, hunting for irregularities and intimidation. The fear of a Florida 2000 rerun hung in the air like a stench. Nobody seemed to be voting for anyone quite as much as they were voting against the other guy. And the lines. Oh, my, the lines.

The negativity makes the documentary "Election Day" difficult at times to watch, as you're bound to be reminded of all the things that drove you crazy on the day Bush and Kerry went head to head. But the film is also an important time capsule, capturing the mood of the n...Read the entire review

Yes, he's Biff, and yes, he's as funny as you've heard.

A few years back, actor Tom Wilson went viral with a video of "Biff's Question Song," in which he joked about getting asked the same questions about his stint as Biff in the "Back to the Future" movies. ("What's Michael J. Fox like? / He's nice. / What's Michael J. Fox like? / Nice guy. / What's Michael J. Fox like?") To folks who'd wondered what happened to Wilson over the years - while he's kept busy doing voiceover work for cartoons like "Spongebob Squarepants," his last high profile roles were on "Freaks and Geeks" and "Ed" - the video was a glorious find and a clever introduction to Wilson's stand-up comedy act.

Wilson now uses his Biff material to open "Tom Wilson: Bigger Than You," an hour-long stand-up special filme...Read the entire review

Timed to match the arrival of the new "Astro Boy" movie in theaters, Sony has re-released all fifty episodes of the character's 2003 cartoon series in a series of five individual discs. (The studio's previous collection, a complete series five-disc box set released in 2005, remains available.)

As I'm only slightly familiar with the Astro Boy universe, I turn to my daughter, a self-professed fourth grade scholar in all things Astro, her professorial knowledge ranging from Osamu Tezuka's original manga series to the various television adaptations to the recent CG film. I am informed that this 2003 series, produced in association with the Japanese satellite network Animax to celebrate both the fortieth anniversary of the original TV series and the "birthday" of Astro Boy as mentioned in the original manga (it's past 2003 now - where's my flying robot, Tezuka?), changes up a few key elements of the ...Read the entire review

A quick primer on the "Ben 10" universe: the Cartoon Network animated series "Ben 10" featured ten-year-old Ben Tennyson and his Omnitrix, an alien wristwatch thingy that can transform him into his choice of ten alien monsters, a power he uses to fight evil and save the world. That series led to the made-for-TV movie "Ben 10: Race Against Time," a live-action sequel of sorts that continued the adventure. Then came "Ben 10: Alien Force," a new cartoon series (set to wrap up its final season this month) that jumped the characters ahead five years, with a new batch of monsters for Ben to become. And now we get "Ben 10: Alien Swarm," a live-action feature that spins off of that series. (A third series, "Ben 10: Evolution," is set to premiere next year.)

Because of the time jump, "Alien Swarm" completely recasts its heroes with new actors, mostly newcomers - but makes the valuable move of keeping Ale...Read the entire review

It's not often you get to say this, but: I wish this movie were dumber.

"The Local," an indie effort from writer/director/star Dan Eberle, wants so very much to be a solemn, raw urban drama. The gritty photography lingers on long, quiet shots while some haunting score plays softly on the soundtrack. We're jolted into reality with quick bursts of violence, but those soon pass as we drift back into an introspective drama where characters discuss fate and hope and the ability to rewrite your future. Junkies and thugs crawl out of the corners while Brooklynites spit swear words in thick accents.

But at the core of all this lies a dopey little action movie, the sort of cheapjack streetwise effort that would've fit right in at the neighborhood grindhouse, maybe on a double bill with something starring Fred Williamson. Eberle plays a nameless (the DVD cover cleverly calls him "Noname"), homeless...Read the entire review

Timed to match the arrival of the new "Astro Boy" movie in theaters, Sony has re-released all fifty episodes of the character's 2003 cartoon series in a series of five individual discs. (The studio's previous collection, a complete series five-disc box set released in 2005, remains available.)

As I'm only slightly familiar with the Astro Boy universe, I turn to my daughter, a self-professed fourth grade scholar in all things Astro, her professorial knowledge ranging from Osamu Tezuka's original manga series to the various television adaptations to the recent CG film. I am informed that this 2003 series, produced in association with the Japanese satellite network Animax to celebrate both the fortieth anniversary of the original TV series and the "birthday" of Astro Boy as mentioned in the original manga (it's past 2003 now - where's my flying robot, Tezuka?), changes up a few key elements of the ...Read the entire review

Timed to match the arrival of the new "Astro Boy" movie in theaters, Sony has re-released all fifty episodes of the character's 2003 cartoon series in a series of five individual discs. (The studio's previous collection, a complete series five-disc box set released in 2005, remains available.)

As I'm only slightly familiar with the Astro Boy universe, I turn to my daughter, a self-professed fourth grade scholar in all things Astro, her professorial knowledge ranging from Osamu Tezuka's original manga series to the various television adaptations to the recent CG film. I am informed that this 2003 series, produced in association with the Japanese satellite network Animax to celebrate both the fortieth anniversary of the original TV series and the "birthday" of Astro Boy as mentioned in the original manga (it's past 2003 now - where's my flying robot, Tezuka?), changes up a few key elements of the ...Read the entire review

Timed to match the arrival of the new "Astro Boy" movie in theaters, Sony has re-released all fifty episodes of the character's 2003 cartoon series in a series of five individual discs. (The studio's previous collection, a complete series five-disc box set released in 2005, remains available.)

As I'm only slightly familiar with the Astro Boy universe, I turn to my daughter, a self-professed fourth grade scholar in all things Astro, her professorial knowledge ranging from Osamu Tezuka's original manga series to the various television adaptations to the recent CG film. I am informed that this 2003 series, produced in association with the Japanese satellite network Animax to celebrate both the fortieth anniversary of the original TV series and the "birthday" of Astro Boy as mentioned in the original manga (it's past 2003 now - where's my flying robot, Tezuka?), changes up a few key elements of the ...Read the entire review

Timed to match the arrival of the new "Astro Boy" movie in theaters, Sony has re-released all fifty episodes of the character's 2003 cartoon series in a series of five individual discs. (The studio's previous collection, a complete series five-disc box set released in 2005, remains available.)

As I'm only slightly familiar with the Astro Boy universe, I turn to my daughter, a self-professed fourth grade scholar in all things Astro, her professorial knowledge ranging from Osamu Tezuka's original manga series to the various television adaptations to the recent CG film. I am informed that this 2003 series, produced in association with the Japanese satellite network Animax to celebrate both the fortieth anniversary of the original TV series and the "birthday" of Astro Boy as mentioned in the original manga (it's past 2003 now - where's my flying robot, Tezuka?), changes up a few key elements of the ...Read the entire review

As soon as "White Night Wedding" decides what kind of movie it wants to be, I'll let you know.

An attempt to rework the Chekov play "Ivanov" in modern Iceland, "Wedding" ("Brúðguminn") is one part melodrama, one part postmodern winkiness, one part "small towns and the quirky people that live there" comedy, one part sitcom, one part romantic weepie, one part Sigur Rós video. Writers Baltasar Kormákur (who also directed) and Ólafur Egilsson never make any of the parts connect together, leaving us with a bitter mush of random emotions. The Icelandic scenery sure is pretty, though.

The film is bookended with scenes of college professor Jón (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) lecturing on "Ivanov" - two scenes that exist entirely to say "look how clever we are for discussing our own sourc...Read the entire review

Funny how false childhood memories tend to linger so well. For twenty-six years now, I've held onto a powerful recollection of the pilot episode of the 1983 CBS Saturday morning cartoon "Dungeons & Dragons," an episode which, in my head, was a fully realized opening chapter to a lengthy adventure. Rewatching the series for the first time since the Reagan years, I was shocked to discover that such a pilot episode never existed - somewhere in my imagination, I had apparently stretched out the show's brief opening title sequence into something far more epic than it ever was.

It's part of the show's economy, really. In sixty quick seconds, we're shown the complete set-up to the series: a group of kids are mysteriously transported to a realm of fantasy and adventure thanks to a portal located within a Dungeons & Dragons-themed roller coaster; the wise Dungeon Master bestows upon them magical ...Read the entire review

You say you liked "Cube" but wished it had more math? Thought "Saw" would be better with less bloodshed and more brainpower? Felt the best part of "Die Hard with a Vengeance" were Simon's puzzles? Want the playful twists of "Sleuth" mixed with Agatha Christie-esque mystery and a healthy dose of frenzied paranoia? Allow me, then, to introduce you to "Fermat's Room," a wicked little thriller of riddles, enigmas, and maybe, just maybe, murder.

Written and directed by Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña, the film opens with a brainy tease as a dashing young mathematician (Alejo Sauras) explains Goldbach's conjecture, which states any even integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers. It's a number theory conundrum that's existed for centuries, and he's finally cr...Read the entire review

By the time Sylvester McCoy stepped into the leading role, "Doctor Who" was a show still on the rocks. The Colin Baker years saw more drama behind-the-scenes than on the screen, with BBC honchos cutting the show's season length down to a paltry fourteen half-hour episodes, then infamously firing Baker while rescinding producer John Nathan-Turner's request to leave the show. Nathan-Turner was left with little time to find a new star and a new script editor in time to launch season twenty-four.

This leaves serials like "Delta and the Bannermen" - a three-part adventure marking the season's third story; it originally aired in November 1987 - feeling rushed, confused, and wildly uneven. The previous two seasons had to contend with (among countless other things) complaints that the show was...Read the entire review

Note to Earth: If/when a meteor ever does happen to come tumbling toward the planet, threatening to wipe out all life as we know it, make sure we have more than three scientists on the case. Just a heads up there.

Yes, "Meteor" - the two-part NBC miniseries that rivaled ABC's "Impact" this summer for disaster dumbassery - goes above and beyond with the improbability, to the point we stop giggling over ridiculous bits of faulty science and start howling over massive logic holes, lazy cliché, and just plain awful storytelling. Here is a movie that tells us there is a top government research facility dedicated entirely to tracking extraterrestrial objects that could slam into the planet, but everyone who works there needs to be told what a meteor is.

The man doing the telling is D...Read the entire review

Oh, what beautiful music they make.

"Rumba" is the latest film from the creative team of Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno Romy. All three share writing and directing credit; Abel and Gordon also take the leading roles. The Belgian trio previously gave us "L'Iceberg," a near-silent comedy filled with huggable quirksters, inventive slapstick, and meticulous visual peculiarities, a sort of Buster Keaton by way of Jacques Tati by way of Wes Anderson.

Abel/Gordon/Romy's works rely on episodic comedy with a human touch. "L'Iceberg" and "Rumba" come balanced with a sense of fairy tale glee, as wondrous exaggerations enhance a sort of innocent romantic charm. These are oddball outsiders whose escapades extend into a sort of Looney Tunes madness, yet their emotions remain grounded...Read the entire review