Why is it the white chick still gets top billing over Pam Grier even 30+ years later dispite the fact Pam Greir has made ten times as many movies and has ten times the graviational pull toward her chest?  My quick take on the movie: Too many gun fights and not enough shower scenes with a lacivious voyeuristic lesbian prison guard.

The only reason to watch this is Ari.  Unfortunately, I'm equal parts him, Monk, and Larry David, so I have to contend with Dani saying, "You." at the end of every scene with him.

Why are all the characters in every one of his projects a bunch of cartoon characters?  It isn't a very good effort, but it's very busy with many characters and no clear idea what to do with them.  I would rather watch writers who flail around helplessly because they're too stubborn to fall back on cliches than those who are complete hacks.  Apparently even Stephen King has some standards, despite criticisms to the contrary.

This is a great crime caper I saw as a kid.  There isn't anything terribly original here, but it manages to insert a lot of humor into scenes where you wouldn't expect it, yet without seeming cloying.  Steal a copy if you can find one.

This is one from somewhere in the first season, somewhere around the point where it started to find itself and stopped beating the audience over the head with establishing the characters by over-playing their archetypes.

Okay, you know I just wanted to see a well-muscled Demi Moore for a bit.  The plot is entirely too predictable (I hoped in vain that there would be a twist I couldn't see around from a mile up the road, but there wasn't).  However, the meat of the film (i.e, training) is pretty good stuff.  Notable is Viggo LordOfTheRingstern in a great (and unexpected) performance as the drill instructor.

Jack steals the show.  Hell, I'd do him if all I was looking for was talent.  Ironically, I'm more attracted to Grace precisely because she has (as she puts it) the chest of a 12 year-old boy.

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