The Apartment: Collector’s Edition
February 9, 2006
The Apartment (1960) features the misadventures of C.C. “Bud” Baxter (Lemmon), an anonymous office drone working at a large insurance company in New York City. He loans out his apartment several nights a week to his bosses and their dates in the hopes...
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
February 8, 2006
You can see why the tabloids had a field day over the “alleged” romance between Pitt and Jolie. Their chemistry in Mr. and Mrs. Smith is nothing short of electric. It’s sad then that the focus was on their private lives rather than the film...
Me and You and Everyone We Know
February 7, 2006
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) is a meditative and thoughtful, an intensely personal movie about alienated people trying to connect with each other in an impersonal world. There is a refreshing unpredictable quality to this movie that guarantees...
The Big Lebowski: Collector’s Edition
February 6, 2006
It started with a rug that “really tied the room together” and how a simple case of mistaken identity can cause a whole lot of trouble. The Big Lebowski (1998) was just too odd for mainstream audiences and promptly tanked at the box office. However,...
Desperate Housewives: Season 1
February 5, 2006
Desperate Housewives proves that there are roles for women over 40 (providing that they look younger) as the four lead actresses were all plucked from the margins and catapulted into fame as the show has become hugely popular. And yet, its success is...
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
February 5, 2006
Ya-Ya! Oh, wait. Wrong movie. It’s true, the comparisons between The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) and The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) are unavoidable. Think of the former as a teen version of the latter. Both examine the...
American Pie: Band Camp
February 5, 2006
This one time, at band camp, they got this horse, and flogged it, and kept on flogging it, and then it died, and they kept on flogging it, then they had this idea, and made another American Pie film. The three American Pie films managed to complete themselves...
Melinda and Melinda
February 4, 2006
Since the start of the ‘90s, Woody Allen’s films have been hit and miss affairs with audiences and critics alike. And yet, he continues to average a film a year, keeping his head down and plugging away, so that it almost becomes a right of passage...
SCTV: Volume 4
February 2, 2006
Canada has always been a source of comedic talent. Such notable stars include Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Dan Aykroyd and the Kids in the Hall. In the ‘70s and early ‘80s, a comedic group called Second City out of Chicago proved to be so popular and successful...
The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse
February 2, 2006
Not to be confused or associated with that piece of crap film starring Sean Connery, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, you can forget about superheroes. Think more along the lines of an evil butcher, a foul mouthed lesbian vicar, a camp German vampire...
