The Longest Yard: Lockdown Edition
October 3, 2005
Most sports movies are riddled with cliches and like any genre this is what makes the exceptional films stand out. They either subvert the cliches or they define them. The Longest Yard (1974) is arguably one of the best football movies because, along...
Seinfeld: Season 4
October 1, 2005
The fourth season of Seinfeld is, arguably, when the show really hit its stride creatively. The show about nothing decided to make fun of the concept by having Jerry (Seinfeld) and George (Alexander) write and then pitch a TV show where nothing happens....
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
September 19, 2005
With the commercial and critical success of Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) a sequel was inevitable. Helen Fielding, creator of the character, even wrote one but the problem becomes, how do you replicate the magic of the first film and yet make it different...
Taxi
August 24, 2005
Inept cop Jimmy Fallon must team up with girl-racer Queen Latifah to catch a gang of wily bank robbers who also happen to be supermodels. A remake of French hit Taxi from 1998, Luc Besson again returns to produce this lightweight tale of cops n’...
I Heart Huckabees
August 18, 2005
“We’re not in infinity, we’re in the suburbs.” – Albert I Heart Huckabees (2004) is a strange movie. After satirically skewering the U.S.’ involvement in the first Gulf War with Three Kings (1999), David O. Russell took some time off to regroup...
Coupling: Season 4
August 17, 2005
Essentially a racier, British version of Friends, Coupling has survived a disastrous attempt at Americanization and the departure of popular cast member Richard Coyle. The addition of Richard Mylan to the cast is hardly a substitute for Coyle who was...
Wonderfalls: The Complete Viewer Collection
August 15, 2005
They say that the good die young and this certainly is true of network television. It used to be that a show was given time to find its audience. Cheers had poor ratings its first season but gradually developed an audience and became the beloved classic...
Get Shorty: Collector’s Edition
August 12, 2005
After Pulp Fiction (1994), John Travolta could do anything he wanted. Quentin Tarantino told him to do Get Shorty (1995) even after the actor passed on it several times. QT was a big fan of Elmore Leonard’s novels and knew that the actor’s talents...
Lewis Black: Black on Broadway
August 3, 2005
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that our world has gone to hell. We have an inferior health care system, high unemployment, a war in the Middle East that no one wants and natural disasters that kill hundreds of thousands of people. Basically,...
The Terminal
July 29, 2005
When you’re Steven Spielberg you can make any movie you like, so when a small independent-spirited true story about one man stuck in an airport comes along, he has the power to build an entire working terminal set around it. Such is the attention...
