Rumor Has It
May 25, 2006
Since her highly publicized break-up with Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston has wisely kept busy making movies. Alas, they haven’t been that good. Both Derailed (2005) and Rumor Has It (2005) came and went from theatres relatively fast. The latter film was...
Broken Flowers
March 14, 2006
Bill Murray re-teams with his Coffee & Cigarettes director Jim Jarmusch in a story about a lonely batchelor who seeks out his old flames in an attempt to uncover if he really has a son. There are two kinds of people: people who worship Jarmusch’s...
Broken Flowers
February 27, 2006
Ever since Night on Earth (1991), filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has worked with recognizable movie stars in what could be interpreted as a bid for mainstream acceptance or, more probably, a way to get his films financed and distributed in a progressively difficult...
The Breakin’ DVD Collection
January 23, 2006
It’s time to put your headband and parachute pants on and break out those Grandmaster Flash records for the holy breakdancing trilogy of films. These movies were made pre-Gangsta rap when disputes were settled either on the dance floor or on the mic....
The Iron Giant: Special Edition
June 13, 2005
When The Iron Giant was released in 1999, it flew in the face of the current trend popularized by Disney animated musicals. Based on the 1968 children’s book, The Giant: A Story in Five Nights, by late British poet Ted Hughes, The Iron Giant refuses...
The Billy Madison/Happy Gilmore Collection
June 11, 2005
In some respects, Adam Sandler has come a long way since Billy Madison (1995), his first starring role after four years on Saturday Night Live. Recently, he has starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Technicolor romantic comedy, Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and...
Track Down
April 24, 2005
Track Down (1999) is a movie plagued by a troubled and checkered past. Based on the book Takedown by Tsutomu Shimomura and John Markoff, it chronicled the battle between two computer experts: ace hacker Kevin Mitnick and computer crimes expert Shimomura...
