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TiVoPlex for Tuesday, January 6, 2009 through Monday, January 12, 2009

By John Seal

January 5, 2009

Another victim of HMO bureaucracy takes matters into his own hands.

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From the obscure to the obscurest to the merely overlooked or underappreciated; they all have a home in the TiVoPlex! All times Pacific.

Tuesday 01/06/09

3:30 AM Sundance
For the Bible Tells Me So (2007 USA): Proposition 8 aside, Homophobia is on a slow descent towards extinction — but there are still plenty of biblical literalists out there touting the Good Book's hatred for The Third Sex. This documentary takes a look at the issue, but thankfully doesn't just rage against these culture war dead-enders. Featuring interviews with Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson (whose ordination led to a schism amongst Anglicans), respected author and scholar Peter Gomes, and evangelical gay Christian Mel White, this is an informative, intelligent, and even-handed treatment of this contentious issue.

11:15 AM Cinemax
Diary of the Dead (2007 USA): The most recent entry in George Romero's Dead series takes a page from the Blair Witch's somewhat musty book, but manages to adapt that film's pseudo-verite trappings to good effect. Diary focusses on a group of young filmmakers whose latest production is interrupted by a limbo eruption, sending them speeding desperately to sanctuary: a remote, well-protected mansion owned by the family of one of their actors. Naturally, things don't go according to plan and the supposedly impregnable fortress turns out to be anything but to the crafty and nefarious living dead. Closing on the bleakest note since Duane Jones' demise in 1968's Night of the Living Dead, Diary of the Dead is proof positive that there's still a little juice left in Romero yet. Also airs at 2:15 PM.




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5:00 PM Turner Classic Movies
Brighton Rock (1947 GB): Based on a superb short novel by Graham Greene, Brighton Rock makes a very rare American television appearance this evening. Living legend Richard Attenborough stars as spiv Pinkie Brown, a low-level gangster in charge of the eponymous seaside resort's protection racket. After Pinkie oversees the murder of a competitor (Alan Wheatley), the police record the death as a suicide — but moll Ida (Hermione Baddeley) knows better, and the noose begins to tighten around Pinkie's neck. One of the very few pure noirs produced in Britain, Brighton Rock is much admired in its homeland but virtually unknown elsewhere. Watch tonight and learn why the British Film Institute voted it the 15th best British film of all time! It's followed at 6:45 PM by another first-rate UK thriller, 1948's The Fallen Idol, in which Ralph Richardson plays a butler who gets a bit too involved in his employer's personal affairs.

Wednesday 01/07/09

3:50 AM IFC
Goth Cruise (2008 USA): Hey, if the guys and gals from National Review can hop an ocean liner to Alaska in order to scope out Sarah Palin, why shouldn't a bunch of chicken-dancing, panda-eyed goths sail off to the Caribbean for a week of glum fun in the sun? I haven't seen Goth Cruise yet, but that's the unlikely subject matter examined in this brand new documentary. No doubt the onboard entertainment included a Southern Death Cult reunion and a Fields of the Nephilim floor show — or flour shower.


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