Bo Selecta – Series 3 and Christmas Special
June 19, 2005
The saying goes ‘if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it’. Unfortunately, because of the success of ‘Bo Selecta’, Avid Merrion’s stalker antics have become to well known to the unsuspecting celebrities and the shows...
Carnivale: Season 1
June 19, 2005
Carnivale is a TV show that seemingly came out of nowhere and debuted on HBO in 2003. It depicts the struggle between good and evil, light vs. darkness and how they are forever intertwined. This battle takes place during the Depression with its focus...
Hero
June 18, 2005
Known more for his period dramas, Raise the Red Lantern (1991) and The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), director Zhang Yimou decided to fulfill a life-long ambition of making a swordsmen epic with Hero (2002). Despite garnering huge box office returns all over...
It’s All True
June 17, 2005
Fresh from the success of Citizen Kane (1941), Orson Welles planned to make a collection of true stories to be called, It’s All True. He never finished the movie and over the years it has gained a reputation as one of Welles’ long lost projects that...
Garfield
June 15, 2005
And so the laconic lasagne-loving fat orange cat finally makes it to the big screen, now an entirely CGI creation, but will his fanbase go along for the ride? The answer is probably no, and Jonathan Frakes will probably tell you why after his disastrous...
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
June 14, 2005
At first, it seems like rather an odd choice picking the director of the racy, coming-of-age road movie, Y tu mamá también (2001), to direct the latest Harry Potter movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). Studios are notoriously protective of their cash...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 7
June 14, 2005
The last season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a bittersweet affair. Sarah Michelle Gellar made it known that she had grown tired of playing Buffy and wanted to move on—presumably to motion pictures (which is exactly what she did with Scooby Doo 2...
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...
Before Sunset
June 13, 2005
It’s been nine years since Richard Linklater’s thoughtful and touching romance, Before Sunrise (1995) graced screens. Since then fans of the movie have wondered and ruminated about what happened to the two main characters. Did they meet up as promised...
California Split
June 12, 2005
In the 1970s, Elliott Gould and Robert Altman were an unbeatable team. The first teamed up with M*A*S*H (1970), a savage satire of the military, then worked together again on a radical contemporary reworking of Raymond Chandler’s novel, The Long Goodbye...
