Smart People
August 12, 2008
Smart People (2008) is the latest in a long, checkered lineage of quirky, independent film dramedies (comedy-drama hybrids). Jodie Foster’s Home for the Holidays (1995) established the template with the following ingredients: take a dysfunctional family...
Failure to Launch
July 5, 2006
It speaks volumes for a movie that was in theatres only a few scant months ago and is already out on DVD. You know that there’s something wrong when Terry Bradshaw gets the bulk of the best notices. Welcome to Failure to Launch (2006), a romantic comedy...
The Family Stone
December 7, 2005
The Family Stone (2005) belongs to the eccentric family comedy sub-genre where a straight-laced protagonist that the audience can identify with meets a clan of lovable oddballs usually in the context of a holiday setting (see Home for the Holidays, Pieces...
Ed Wood
April 2, 2005
Ed Wood (1994) is a gloriously atmospheric, black and white love letter to cinema. Tim Burton understands that for the devoted cineaste, the best moments in life have often been spent in a darkened movie theatre being enveloped by a film and becoming...
Sex and the City: The Complete Fifth Season
May 30, 2002
Just in time for the last run of episodes of Sex and the City, HBO and Warner Brothers have released the truncated fifth season on DVD. This set offers the best transfers so far with crystal clear resolution and strikingly vibrant colours. For the first...
