Tag: Lifetime
Liz & Dick
I voluntarily watched Liz & Dick a couple of months ago because I’m a fan of Paul Scheer’s podcast, How Did This Get Made? and I always try to watch the various terrible movies they’re going to discuss before listening to the episode. While Liz & Dick is among the better movies the podcast has [...]
Cyberstalker
Cyberstalker is about a young woman named Aiden (Mischa Barton), who has been the target of an obsessed man on the internet for over 13 years. The man killed her parents and Aiden has been in hiding under a false name ever since, but a picture of one of her paintings has led him back [...]
Lifetime Gold Collection
What’s the slogan for Lifetime again? Isn’t it something like, “television for women?” I know, among other things, Lifetime has always prided itself on its emphasis on women and sharing the female perspective. It is, indeed, a lofty goal, but certainly an admirable one. Then how come, as a man, I find myself so agitated [...]
For One Night
For One Night is a movie that shows the ugly head of racism, when it should really be a time when all students are allowed to have fun during the night of a lifetime—at their senior prom. But such is not the case for this “one night,” where we have a movie that was inspired [...]
Dance Moms: Season One
It seems the dystopian future of The Hunger Games is almost a guarantee. Honestly, after watching only two episodes of Dance Moms, in which mothers, children, and coaches are pitted against one another for the enjoyment of the audience, violence for entertainment’s sake doesn’t seem too far off. But I’m getting ahead myself. The topic [...]
The Bling Ring
The story on which the 2011 Lifetime movie The Bling Ring is based has, for whatever reason(s), struck a chord with audiences. First of all, if Lifetime makes a movie based on a story, that’s a pretty good indicator right there that it’s a popular issue in the public discourse. But then, when TV shows [...]
Girl Fight
Pretty much since its inception, Lifetime has suffered from an unfair stigmatization that has precluded many moviegoers from fairly appraising their productions. For many, to talk about Lifetime movies is to talk about “chick flicks,” “tear-jerkers,” or “man-hating” films. At best, Lifetime movies are categorized by moviegoers as “social problem” films, an accurate though still [...]
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