Jerry Kernion Movies
Set in New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century, The Princess and the Frog concerns a poor African-American girl named Tiana who has a knack for cooking, and dreams of opening her own restaurant. Her best friend since childhood is a privileged white girl whose wealthy father employs Tiana's mother as a dressmaker. When the friend's family hosts a party for Prince Naveen of Maldonia, Dr. Facilier, an expert in black magic, turns the visiting royal into a frog. The now amphibious Naveen convinces Tiana that a kiss will reverse the spell, and if she obliges him he'll provide the money she needs to open her dream eatery. However, their smooch not only fails to turn him back into a human, but transforms Tiana into a frog as well. The duo then sets out to find a voodoo priestess who can set everything right. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Starring:
- Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, (more)
- 2005
They kept audiences in stitched by compressing Shakespeare, and now the "bad boys of abridgement" set their sights on American history in a breathless, ninety-minute look into the past that covers everything from the discovery of the new world to the presidency of George W. Bush. History class was never this much fun, and by the time the Reduced Shakespeare Company has their say, longwinded history buff's heads will be spinning from the non-stop barrage of historical fact, and hysterical farce. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Austin Tichenor, Reed Martin, (more)
- 2005
Season Four of Monk begins as obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) seemingly meets his match in the form of private eye Marty Eels (Jason Alexander), whose disheveled appearance and careless manner evidently masks a keen analytical mind. Both Monk and Eels are working on robbery-murder at a jewelry store, and Monk is none too pleased that his rival is continually two steps ahead of him in uncovering evidence and arriving at the right conclusions--in fact, Eels' skills are something short of miraculous! Eventually, Monk discovers that Eels has been cheating all along with the help of his mother (!)...and it is a suddenly humbled and contrite Marty Eels who begs Monk's help when his duplicity puts his mom in harm's way. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1998
During the three-month interim between the Babylon 5 cliffhanger "Movements of Fire and Shadow" and its payoff episode "The Fall of Centauri Prime," the popular TNTnetwork science-fiction series was represented by a two-hour TV "movie", Babylon 5: Thirdspace. Set during the final months of the Shadow war, the film gets under way as B5 officer Ivanova (Claudia Christian discovers a huge artifact in hyperspace. In order to bring the object back to the station for analysis, the B5 crew must accept the assistance of IPX, a corporation specializing in often dangerously experimental technology. The plot thickens when the artifact begins profoundly affecting the subconscious thoughts of the combined crews, producing dreams that threaten to become deadly at any moment. Though Babylon 5 purists complained that this film was more appropriate to the series' fourth season than the continuity of Season 5, the ratings were quite good, especially for a basic-cable telecast. Written by . Michael Straczynski, and later novelized by Peter David, Babylon 5: Thirdspace premiered on July 19, 1998. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, (more)
- 1990
This film has all the requisite ingredients for a ripping slasher yarn: a car filled with hapless teens, a storm, a ramshackle mansion, and a strange hitchiker, and horribly disfigured killers. The nightmare begins when the violent storm erupts and the teen in charge of showing the others the way to an isolated New York lake admits that they are lost. They then pick up the hitcher. As the sun goes down, they decide to seek shelter in the abandoned mansion. There they see a shrine built around a wrecked auto. As they break into the house, the rambunctious youths are unaware of the evil presence within. Before the night is through much blood will flow, and only one will survive. Like many films of this genre, graphic violence and gore abounds as does nudity and simulated sex. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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