Thank God It's Friday

UT grad Christian McLaughlin discusses Spyder Games, his MTV "soap opera on crack."

"...is a bit of what transgressed on MTV's new soap opera Spyder Games the same day, as reported by..."

July 20, 2001 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Nurse Betty

"...Dr. Ravell (Kinnear), the hunky hero of her favorite soap opera A Reason to Love, sighs into the camera,..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

'Downton' Throws a House Party

This one's for the lovers

"...new, converge on Downton along with a cadre of opera singers, card sharps, sexy young lords, and friendly rapists...."

Jan. 13, 2014 Screens Post by Melanie Haupt

Santitos_tmp

"...mask. Add to this tale a transvestite madam, a soap-opera-loving priest, a creepy hoodlum, and a cathouse horse and..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Santitos

"...mask. Add to this tale a transvestite madam, a soap-opera-loving priest, a creepy hoodlum, and a cathouse horse and..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Payback as Comeback

The Rude Mechs boost a resurgence with 'REVENGE!'

"...day it is. Instead, there are stretches of real soap opera and bits of Hamlet. There are ghosts and..."

April 14, 2006 Arts Feature by Steve Moore

Aidan's Bed: Soda In Need of Proper Handling

Blake Yelavich's new play Aidan's Bed is like a bottle of soda, fizzling and popping with characters who are laughable, wry, and sardonic, but the author's uneven direction of his own play proves that even the best soda can go flat without proper handling.

"...characters who are laughable, wry, and sardonic -- part soap opera and part sociological study -- but in its..."

March 23, 2001 Arts Review by Skipper Chong Warson

Luther: The Fallen Sun

Everyone's favorite rule-breaking copper ends up lost in the snow

"...gleefully explains under the helmet of an Eighties primetime soap opera hairstyle that absolutely refuses to be ignored, the..."

March 3, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Small-screen stately manor still can't fill the big screen

"...An upstairs/downstairs soap opera set in the first quarter of the 20th..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sundown

Existential mystery gets less interesting with every answer

"...time accruing. It’s a letdown that goes beyond its soap-opera origins to strip away the impact. Maybe this is..."

Feb. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Croods: A New Age

Pointless prehistoric sequel hasn’t evolved at all

"...subplot that could have led to a love triangle soap opera but was eventually rewritten)...."

Nov. 27, 2020 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

And Then We Danced

Georgian coming-out-drama is extraordinary only for its location

"...career-threatening injury as all this transpires is somewhere between soap opera and Lars von Trier-level on-the-nose storytelling)...."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Letters to the Editor: Classic Cuts

35 years of "keeping it weird"

"...column, a serialized novel, a personal memoir, or a "soap opera" plot?..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Features Feature by Danielle White

Bad Girls' Club

UnREAL introduces a new female antihero

"...on The Bachelor. The show is enough of a soap opera that much of it can’t possibly be real,..."

Aug. 3, 2015 Screens Post by Amy Kamp

Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?

Audiences shrug back.

"...(Polaha), a messianic and charismatic leader, played here with soap-opera subtlety and bad regional theatre affectations...."

Sept. 19, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Edge of Tomorrow

The sci-fi is a bit fuzzy – and the alien beasties are anything but – in this Tom Cruise action onslaught.

"...Edge of Tomorrow – it sounds like a daytime soap opera, doesn’t it? – wastes a promising premise with..."

June 6, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Vampire Academy

This month's flavor in the teen vampire continuum.

"...Heathers, as well, but that only makes this garish soap opera all the more depressingly banal. It’s sporadically fun..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wolverine

With perma-snarl intact, Hugh Jackman is back as the Wolverine hunts new prey in Japan.

"...Logan balks, but nonetheless gets caught up in the soap opera swirling around Yashida, which co-stars a spunky lady..."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Iron Lady

Meryl Streep reunites with her Mama Mia! director to play Margaret Thatcher.

"...spy games and the Suez Crisis fell away to soap-opera staples; more apropos exit music for the final episode..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Barney's Version

Paul Giamatti won a Golden Globe for his performance as Barney Panofsky in this film based on Mordecai Richler's 1997 novel.

"...wives. Although he’s a big-time producer of a Montreal soap opera, Barney is by no means rolling in Canadian..."

March 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

One-man moviemaking machine Tyler Perry drops his usual cross-dressing comedics for this melodrama about two family dynasties – one black, one white – rocked by scandal.

"...fancy themselves a middle-aged Thelma and Louise. Unfortunately, the soap opera shenanigans of their offspring significantly detract from that..."

Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Female camaraderie, nostalgic sentimentality, and emotional catharsis are back in this sequel: The film hits its marks but lacks real depth.

"...subplots have been introduced and disappeared again in a soap-opera whirlwind, most of them merely obstacles set up to..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?

The creative powerhouse known as Tyler Perry is back in front of and behind the camera with this predictable film about four married couples.

"...letter. In fact, there’s such an overriding sense of soap opera that I kept expecting a commercial break. The..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Avenue Montaigne

A young Frenchwoman moves to Paris from with nothing but the knapsack on her back and the innocent gleam in her eye.

"...believes her talents are going to waste on the soap opera that made her rich and famous. Classical pianist..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Queens

Spanish comedy about same-sex marriages and mothers-in-law.

"...the sense that Queens missed its calling as a soap opera. Indeed, the film lacks the complexity, visual style,..."

Oct. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

After a Fashion

What is keeping Stephen inside six nights a week, glued to the boob tube? And why would anyone want to go waaaaaaaay down south? Answers within.

"...for an entire hour every night. It's an actual soap opera starring Bo Derek as the duplicitous Maria Gianni,..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The Syrian Bride

This story about an arranged marriage taking place in a remote outpost of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights will be familiar to anyone ever caught in an avalanche of red tape.

"...in the Heights, who is to marry a Syrian soap opera star, whom she has only seen on TV..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin @ Large: Access of Evil

It's a conspiracy! Defending Austin from the music network.

"...Just when I thought the interminable soap opera of the Austin Music Network couldn't get any..."

Aug. 6, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Esther's Follies

Using inventive props, puppets, costumes, and live music, the gang at Esther's Follies stuffs fast-paced skits, political satire, and illusions into a tightly compacted show

"...divas, sorority girls, angry punk rock magician's assistants, or soap opera queens...."

April 16, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Camp

"...has also been compared to Alan Parker’s Fame, which operates with a similar love of behind-the-scenes melodrama and youthful..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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