Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Forrest Gump's soft-porn origins, and Oprah knows molting

"...The Bates Casket company churns out a new casket, on average,..."

April 13, 2007 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Downton Abbey recap: Episode 5

Cora gives Lord Grantham the cold shoulder

"...Isobel hired a hooker (to work as her maid/cook). Bates and Anna grokked Vera’s Evil Suicide Pie plan. Sybil..."

Feb. 8, 2013 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

'Downton' Watch

Part II: Mary's got the bit between her teeth

"...of Downton Abbey when she’s in London), Edith reckons Mr. Gregson needs to meet the family, the rationale being..."

Jan. 7, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

Fred Claus

Awash with amazingly talented actors – Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey, to name a few – Fred Claus is sadly just an early lump of coal under the tree.

"...Giamatti, John Michael Higgins, Miranda Richardson, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Elizabeth Banks and Kevin Spacey. How..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Brothers Solomon

With three great comic talents in Will Forte, Will Arnett, and director Bob Odenkirk working together in relatively untried and controversial comedy territory, the only result is a syrupy fable about love and family.

"...do with women – Longfellow Deeds, Felix Unger, Norman Bates, and on and on – the Solomon brothers might..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

'Downton Abbey' Slips Into Something More Comfortable

Let's talk about sex, darling

"...goes up to the big house alone, freezing out Mr. Bates at every turn. Bates, who is not a..."

Jan. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

"...funny movies better,” someone tells Allen's filmmaker alter-ego Sandy Bates in Stardust Memories, and it's difficult not to echo..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

‘Downton Abbey’ Watch

Lady problems

"...say, the third episode of season 1, in which Mr. Pamuk’s heart went kaput in the bed of Lady..."

Jan. 21, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

I Like to Watch

Saying so long to Downton Abbey

"...For those whose point of entry was Anna and Mr. Bates, well, for them we weep. But I'm not..."

March 4, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

'Downton Abbey' and the 'Desire of Suitors'

Mary is beating suitors off with a stick

"...friendship. • Mary flopped around in pig filth with Mr. Blake, which in some countries means they’re married. •..."

Feb. 17, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

'Downton' Throws a House Party

This one's for the lovers

"...Gregson the cold shoulder. It’s only when Gregson outsmarts Mr. Samson, a card sharp who has been gleefully separating..."

Jan. 13, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

Postmarks

Contradictions Exposed

"...to separate people from policy." I am assuming that Mr. Roberts is telling the truth -- that he really..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

'Downton Abbey' Watch

Another wedding, and the war between Thomas and O'Brien ramps up

"...THE POKEY: Bates has apparently made some enemies at the jailhouse. A..."

Jan. 14, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

SXSW Film Changes the Channel With a New Name

Festival gives TV content co-headline billing

"...by the premiere the following year of Psycho spinoff Bates Motel, that the festival added a full Episodic track..."

July 28, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Unveils March Lineup

So much ado!

"...Cuse will unleash a first look at new series Bates Motel, the Psycho prequel starring Vera Farmiga as Norman’s..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Upstairs, Downstairs: The Metaphors of Parasite

Bong Joon-ho on his obsession with stairs, Psycho, and how we eat

"...elementary school I watched Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock's [film]. The Bates Motel is fascinating, but I'm more fascinated by the..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Jenny Nulf

Upstairs, Downstairs: The Visual Metaphors of Parasite

Bong Joon-ho talks stairs, smells, and Psycho

"...elementary school I watched Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock’s [film]. The Bates Motel is fascinating, but I’m more fascinated by the..."

Oct. 30, 2019 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

Dancing About Architecture

"...closing its doors at the end of the month: Bates Motel manager Randall Stockton says the club has lost..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Postmarks

They Got Nothing on Lacresha

"...Girl Militia reads "Let's show the `rapists' and the Bates Motel what we think of their sickening name and..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Column

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...nice. Precocious pigtails and all, she's Lolita via Norman Bates, a pre-pubescent psychopath possessed of a genetic predisposition toward..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...Read Johnson; with Charlie Talbert, George C. Scott, Kathy Bates, Rita Moreno, Ariana Richards, Chris Owen, Lawrence Pressman. If..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Top 5 Soundtracks and Original Scores of 2014

Awesome Mix, No. 2: Tehran punk, Cave, and Carpenter

"...The equally prolific Tyler Bates, on leave from scoring Rob Zombie and Zack Snyder’s..."

Dec. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Downton Abbey: The Holy and the Broken

There, there, Anna – you'll feel better before the hour's up

"...Bates wants to know what’s gone wrong between them, and..."

Jan. 27, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

See No Evil

Former porn auteur Gregory Dark advances to making this rote exercise in slasher-film tedium.

"...sort of tickle-me-Hellmo voyeurism, I check into Robert Bloch's Bates Motel and let the prose do the work for..."

May 26, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wild Man Blues

"...quip about such things as his fear of Norman Bates-like concierges and how Bologna might be a lovely town..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Road Shows

"...MON 15 Kaia, Bates Motel..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"...gay Everyguy who swears off sex and then meets Mr. Right, an HIV-positive man. Like its title character, the..."

Sept. 29, 1995 News Feature

Postmarks

Don't Dissolve District

"...Dear Mr. Black:..."

May 1, 1998 Column

Postmarks

City Centerpiece

"...Dear Mr. Black:..."

July 31, 1998 Column

I Like to Watch

On families and finales

"...this idea of the strange family, family as spy game: Homeland and Mr. & Mrs. Smith finally understood as the truth about love,..."

May 13, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

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