Wildboyz: Season 2
October 30, 2005
Tired of the over-earnestness of The Crocodile Hunter and Jeff Corwin? Those crazy Wildboyz are back for a second season filled with more snake bites and animal poop jokes than you can shake a stick at. This season is a mix of countries they visited last...
Stargate SG-1 vol 38
October 29, 2005
In 1994, a secret was shared with a movie-going audience. A secret that had been buried for thousands of years, until the sci-fi fantasy adventure movie Stargate was released. Then, following in the footsteps of Star Trek, X-Files and Buffy, Stargate...
Stargate SG-1 vol 39
October 29, 2005
In 1994, a secret was shared with a movie-going audience. A secret that had been buried for thousands of years, until the sci-fi fantasy adventure movie Stargate was released. Then, following in the footsteps of Star Trek, X-Files and Buffy, Stargate...
Finding Neverland
October 28, 2005
What made author James M. Barrie such a brilliant fantasist is that he could see the world differently, as a child might and was not tied down by society’s stuffy conventions. Finding Neverland (2004) is based loosely on an account of how he wrote his...
L’Eclisse
October 28, 2005
In an essay included in the accompanying booklet, Jonathan Rosenbaum points out that Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse (1962) was the final film in a “loose trilogy about Eros, art, business and emotional alienation in the contemporary world.”...
Spivs
October 27, 2005
Cockney grifter Ken Stott gets more than he bargains for when a routine truck hijack leaves him with two refugee children to take care of. Seven years. That’s how long ago Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels appeared and gave the British film industry...
Conan the Barbarian: Special Edition
October 26, 2005
Originally conceived in 1932 as a comic book character, Conan built his status and finally became a movie in 1982. But this is no comic book superhero movie – Conan does not have superpowers, he is just big and strong. Conan is the anti-hero, he does...
Titanic: Special Collector’s Edition
October 25, 2005
For years people have been fascinated with the tragic sinking of the Titanic. James Cameron has been interested deep sea diving and exploration from an early age. It was this interest that turned him on to the story of the Titanic. Many theories have...
Open Water
October 25, 2005
Open Water was 2003’s Blair Witch Project (1999) – an independent film shot cheaply with complete unknowns and incorporating actual fear tactics on the cast in order to get authentic reactions. In the case of Open Water, this involved putting the...
Elektra
October 24, 2005
The only thing to survive the debacle known as Daredevil (2003) was the positive reaction, by audiences, to one of the characters in the film, Elektra, played by Jennifer Garner. This may have been more as a result of her fresh-faced, girl-next-door charisma...
