Word: over-the-top
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...attention of an increasingly indifferent electorate by playing a game of I'll-be-you-and-you-be-me. Last week the GOP sought to buy the world a Coke with a display of compassion and biodiversity so giddy that it might have been rejected as too over-the-top for a "Saturday Night Live" skit. And now, as the Democrats gather in Los Angeles, early signs are that their response will be as out of character...
...most part, though, Gfaller (who himself takes the role of an Inquisitor) manages to keep things light, showy and appropriately over-the-top...
...price of portable DVD players continues to drop, I suspect that public displays of over-the-top emotion (crying, laughing, shrieking in terror) will soon be common on mass transportation and in other places where folks with electronic toys are forced to kill time. There are few better time killers than movies, few experiences so immersive. And just wait until you try a portable DVD player with headphones. Those headphones, by the way, are key; since this is DVD, the sound is CD quality. That makes the overall effect more powerful than what you get at the multiplex with their...
...legendary Scheherazade (Mili Avital) saved her life by spinning fabulous fictions for her murderous husband night after night. Nowadays she'd save herself some effort and just do a game show each evening. But this mini-series proves that over-the-top stories, richly told and lavishly gilded, still have some value, even at Regis' network. If you can get past the kitschy orientalism and the sometimes-tired ideas (A wacky genie! Brilliant!), you'll find this baroque epic an often thrilling carpet ride...
Trying to manufacture camp on purpose is as fruitless as trying to make primitive art in a factory. But that's the blatant aim of this remake of a 1973 occult cult classic--hence the over-the-top visual effects, the showy lesbian overtones and the general '70s-horror vibe. Casting Kate Jackson, from the original Satan, shows how desperately this 6-6-sex flick wants cult cred. And casting Shannen Doherty of Charmed reminds us that there's cooler supernatural programming on several nights a week...