Manhattan
February 20, 2006
After the phenomenal success of Annie Hall (1977), Woody Allen confounded the expectations of his critics and fans with Interiors (1978), which saw him doing his best Ingmar Bergman impression. It was his first dramatic film and while critical reaction...
Vanya on 42nd Street: Criterion Collection
February 20, 2006
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) began in 1989 as an extended workshop by legendary stage director Andre Gregory. He assembled a cast of actors to rehears Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya at the abandoned Victory Theater on 42nd Street in New York City. They...
The Dukes of Hazzard: Unrated
February 19, 2006
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) is the latest attempt to resurrect an old T.V. show onto the big screen and give it a hip, contemporary spin, mainly with the casting of Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott and Jessica Simpson, but as every fan of the show...
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School: Rock On Edition
February 19, 2006
Hey Ho! Let’s Go! Listen up, kids. Rock ‘n’ Roll High School may have been released way back in 1979 but it still kicks the ass of any of those square MTV movies. Forget about Britney Spears and Mandy Moore’s brand of bubblegum...
Airplane!: “Don’t Call Me Shirley!” Edition
February 17, 2006
Airplane! (1980) was originally conceived of as a remake/parody of Zero Hour! (1957), a black and white airplane disaster movie, while also skewering popular movies of the mid to late ‘70s (like Jaws, Saturday Night Fever and the Airport movies). The...
The 40-Year-Old Virgin: Unrated
February 16, 2006
Thanks to small, but memorable roles in Bruce Almighty (2003) and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), comedian Steve Carell is poised for mainstream success and The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) might be just the film to do it. It is a movie tailored...
Busting
February 14, 2006
The 1970’s was a great decade for gritty buddy cop movies with the likes of The French Connection (1971) and Hickey & Boggs (1972). 1974 was a particularly good year with The Super Cops (1974), Freebie and the Bean (1974) and the largely forgotten...
Scrubs: Season 2
February 14, 2006
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. With the exception of monkeying around with the theme song (slowing it down to squeeze in more cast credits – it lasted two episodes), Bill Lawrence and his writers maintained the formula that made their sitcom Scrubs...
Bewitched
February 10, 2006
The big screen version of Bewitched (2005) has had a checked past, mostly spent in development hell as many screenwriters and filmmakers took a stab at trying to get it made. Nora Ephron and her sister Delia finally got it off the ground with their self-reflexive...
Arrested Development: Season 2
February 10, 2006
lot of mistaken identity humour. It’s an understatement to say that the Bluth family is extremely dysfunctional. Buster is the ultimate mama’s boy with a very dependent relationship with his mother. Lindsay and Tobias don’t relate to each other...
