Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
July 6, 2006
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) is one of those classic examples of a “how in the hell did this get made by a major studio?” kind of movie. 20th Century Fox wanted to make a sequel to their very successful 1967 film The Valley of the Dolls,...
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...
Adam Sandler Collection
June 20, 2006
When Adam Sandler started making movies where he was the star they were a mix of childish frat boy humour and romance with more of an emphasis on what Kevin Smith would classify as “dick and fart jokes.” The best example of this early period would...
Little Britain: Season 2
June 19, 2006
With Saturday Night Live sinking further into mediocrity, sketch comedy was in desperate need of some new blood. From out of England came two warped comedic minds, Matt Lucas and David Walliams and their brilliantly twisted sketch comedy show Little Britain,...
Dharma & Greg: Season 1
June 16, 2006
1997 saw the arrival of a new sitcom that helped reinvigorate the romantic comedy on network television. Even though it wasn’t particularly original, Dharma & Greg it was a very well-written and well-made show featuring two leads that had undeniable...
Fried Green Tomatoes: Anniversary Edition
June 14, 2006
Every decade has its chick flicks that define those years and feature a who’s who of up-and-coming actresses mixed with veterans. In the 1980s, it was Steel Magnolias (1989) and in the 1990s it was Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), a southern folktale based...
The Munsters: Season 2
June 14, 2006
Note to reader: this piece is a not a complete review, as for some reason the PR company saw it fit to send disc 1 only, of the 6 disc, Season 2 box set, which makes it hard to give a full interpretation of the release. Please be aware that this sort...
One Last Thing…
June 13, 2006
Fresh from his feature film debut of the underrated Prey for Rock ‘n’ Roll (2003), director Alex Steyermark’s next project, One Last Thing… (2005) looked, on paper anyways, like the potential for a cliché-ridden mess – your standard disease...
Gilligan’s Island: The Complete First Season
June 6, 2006
“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale A tale of a fateful trip That started from this tropic port Aboard this tiny ship…” These are the opening words from one of the most instantly recognizable theme songs in the history of television....
Cemetery Man
June 5, 2006
Michele Soavi got his start as an actor with small roles in Italian horror films like Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) and then worked in various capacities (actor, screenwriter and assistant) on five of Joe D’Amato’s movies. Soavi went...
