Justin Kirk Helps Weeds Get Good Again

When Chandra Wilson and Jim Parsons announce the Emmy nominations next Thursday, we’re not expecting to hear Justin Kirk’s named called. And, frankly, his exclusion will be warranted: Not even Mr. Kirk was able to withstand the shoddy fourth season of Weeds, which coated every actor on the show, no matter how talented, Read More

It’s Time to Blow Up Weeds

Poor Mary-Louise Parker. Our favorite straw-chewing, iced coffee-drinking actress is officially wasting her time on Weeds. The fifth season premiere of the once-great Showtime series aired last night, and, for those of you hoping it would be a return to form, we’ve got some bad news: It wasn’t. Alternatively both unfunny and non-dramatic, Weeds is Read More

Mary-Louise’s Bare Bum Had Me Hedda-ing for the Exits!

Has a play ever been revived with more alarming frequency than Hedda Gabler (1890)? As Ibsen’s ghost was heard protesting in Kristiania, Norway, only last weekend: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”

Hedda Gabler is apparently the only play that Henrik Ibsen ever wrote. While the derided revival Read More

Enough Dark Knight Stories Already! Okay?

We find it hard to believe that Summer will draw to a close this weekend. Normally we’re a bit melancholy at this time of year; it must be the remnants of our youth, when seeing Jerry Lewis’ annual Labor Day Telethon on Channel 9 meant the school year was just around the corner.

This year Read More

Mary-Louise Parker Will Return to Broadway in Hedda Gabler

Seems like Showtime’s Weeds stars have caught the stage bug recently. First, Hunter Parrish makes his Broadway debut in Spring Awakening on Aug. 18. Now Mary-Louise Parker, the MILF who plays his drug-dealer mom on Showtime’s Weeds, will trot back onto Broadway too. She’ll star in a revival of Henrik Ibsen’s classic Hedda Gabler in Read More

Nick Nolte, Sober!

THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES
RUNNING TIME 97 minutes
WRITTEN BY Karey Kirkpatrick, David Berenbaum, John Sayles
DIRECTED BY Mark Waters
STARRING Nick Nolte, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Short

I suggest you see The Spiderwick Chronicles accompanied by a small child. Without the 7-year-old next to me, I probably wouldn’t have a clue what it’s all about. I Read More