On paper, a reality show about Jean Claude Van Damme, star of such films as Blood Sport and Street Fighter, sounds promising enough. Who doesn’t love poking fun at the rich and famous? Such shows as Stephen Segal: Lawman are a testament to the success of such a formula. Behind Closed Doors does, to a certain extent, play to this audience, giving them a chance to see how the man behind the muscles copes with real life situations.
Seagal's Lawman gets its laughs by surrounding its star with real working people, who spend most of the time telling him that police work is not how it appears in his movies. Behind Closed Doors on the other hand follows Jean Claude in his own environment, surrounded by the glitz and glamour of the various cities he visits around the world. Whether this makes for a better show is debatable,...
Seagal's Lawman gets its laughs by surrounding its star with real working people, who spend most of the time telling him that police work is not how it appears in his movies. Behind Closed Doors on the other hand follows Jean Claude in his own environment, surrounded by the glitz and glamour of the various cities he visits around the world. Whether this makes for a better show is debatable,...
- 7/18/2011
- Shadowlocked
Finally, a movie about hardscrabble, blue collar Irish-Americans that doesn't disguise what it is with a fancy title. White Irish Drinkers eschews the clever names and simply tells you what it's about, straight up. Starring Nick Thurston and Geoff Widgor as brothers in 1975 Brooklyn, each working at different angles to try to escape their life and their hard-drinking, abusive father (Stephen Lang). It's one more entry into the roughshod Irishman genre that folks seem to love so much, and in a refreshing change of pace, it isn't set in Boston.
It actually looks pretty good, too. Given that for part of my youth, I grew up in one of those blue collar Irish neighborhoods (that ironically was part of a larger, very affluent suburb), I have a certain affection for these tales, and White Irish Drinkers, drably titled though it may be, looks like a solid entry. It's already made...
It actually looks pretty good, too. Given that for part of my youth, I grew up in one of those blue collar Irish neighborhoods (that ironically was part of a larger, very affluent suburb), I have a certain affection for these tales, and White Irish Drinkers, drably titled though it may be, looks like a solid entry. It's already made...
- 3/1/2011
- by TK
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