Night at the Museum
May 15, 2007
With the escalating budgets of tent-pole Hollywood studio films, the big budget comedy is an endangered species. Several recent ones with big movie stars attached have been scuttled because of their large budgets and the fear that they will be unable...
The Lost Room
May 14, 2007
Originally airing on the Sci Fi Channel, The Lost Room (2006) is a mini-series that blends The X-Files with David Lynch in an intriguing way. Detective Joe Miller (Krause) investigates a bizarre double homicide with his partner. They track down a witness...
La haine
May 11, 2007
La Haine (1995) is a blistering howl of dissent chronicling the disenfranchised minorities living in the projects just outside of Paris. Mathieu Kassovitz’s film sheds light on the unemployed youth and the pointlessness of their existence. We normally...
The Hitcher
May 11, 2007
The Hitcher (1986) was a nasty little horror film that had no ambitions other than to scare the crap out of you and succeeded due in large part to Rutger Hauer’s creepy turn as a charismatic and seemingly unstoppable hitchhiker cum killer. The film...
Born to Fight
May 9, 2007
Following hot on the heels of the surprise success of Ong-Bak (2003), comes Born to Fight, (2004), another Thai martial arts film that boasts plenty of action, all of it without the aid of CGI. So when you see a guy taking a tumble off a moving truck,...
That Thing You Do!: Tom Hanks’ Extended Version
May 8, 2007
That Thing You Do! (1996) is Tom Hanks’ tribute to the slew of rock ‘n’ roll bands that followed in the wake of the Beatles’ phenomenal worldwide success. Record companies in the 1960s were desperate to find the American equivalent in the hopes...
Dreamgirls: Showstopper Edition
May 4, 2007
Based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, Dreamgirls (2006) made the successful jump to the big screen with a big name cast that included the likes of Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles and Eddie Murphy. The film charts the rise of the Dreamettes (later...
Not Just the Best of the Larry Sanders Show
May 3, 2007
The Larry Sanders Show was a brilliant satirical, behind-the-scenes look at a late night talk show and its vain, neurotic host (Shandling), his weasely sidekick Hank Kingsley (Tambor), the gruff, kiss-ass producer Arthur (Torn), and the other, long-suffering...
WKRP in Cincinnati: Season 1
May 1, 2007
WKRP in Cincinnati was hardly a groundbreaking sitcom when it debuted on television in the fall of 1978 but it was very funny, thanks in large part to good writing and a talented ensemble cast. The show featured the perfect combination of the right material...
See No Evil
April 30, 2007
See No Evil is the first film brought to you by WWE films, and yes, that’s WWE as in World Wrestling Entertainment. Wrestlers are everywhere these days – they write best-selling novels, they race bikes and cars, they are on the radio, they rap...
