California Split
June 12, 2005
In the 1970s, Elliott Gould and Robert Altman were an unbeatable team. The first teamed up with M*A*S*H (1970), a savage satire of the military, then worked together again on a radical contemporary reworking of Raymond Chandler’s novel, The Long Goodbye...
The Billy Madison/Happy Gilmore Collection
June 11, 2005
In some respects, Adam Sandler has come a long way since Billy Madison (1995), his first starring role after four years on Saturday Night Live. Recently, he has starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Technicolor romantic comedy, Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and...
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
June 8, 2005
Paul Mazursky’s directorial debut, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) is a satire of the sexual revolution in the 1960s. The film zeroes in on Hippie New Age philosophy and shows how ridiculous it is in some respects. Mazursky’s film explores...
Peep Show
June 4, 2005
Voyeurism has been taken to a new level with series one of ‘Peep Show’ and if you’ve never heard of or seen it, it’s probably not what you think it is. Take all thoughts of nudity or erotic perversion out of you head and replace...
The Office: The Complete Collection
June 2, 2005
The Office is a British TV comedy that came seemingly out of nowhere to garner enthusiastic universal critical acclaim and wide spread popularity in its home country and a devoted cult following here in the United States where it is shown regularly on...
Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection
June 1, 2005
The newly released Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection contains nine of the Master of Suspense’s movies from 1940 to 1959. It’s an intriguing mix of the famous (North by Northwest) and the underrated (Mr. and Mrs. Smith). All of the films in the...
Brain Donors
May 30, 2005
There’s a good reason why there have been so few attempts to copy the Marx Brothers. Not only did they do it the best but their particular brand of humour is so hard to pull off and do it well that what few attempts there have been have failed miserably....
Seinfeld Seasons 1-3
May 29, 2005
Forget Friends – this is the iconic US sitcom of the 90’s, finally released on DVD with a bounty of special features that even George Costanza couldn’t fault. Before Will & Grace made bitching bitchy and Friends friendly, Seinfeld...
Mean Girls
May 28, 2005
The knives are out for new girl Lindsay Lohan when she meets the meanest of the mean on her first day of high school. Perhaps the dark side of American comedy hasn’t been killed off by the Ashton Kutchers and the Sean William Scotts after all. Mean...
Pirates of the Caribbean: Special Edition
May 21, 2005
Arrr, mateys! There be something even more deadly than the Curse of the Black Pearl. It is the curse of the dreaded double-dipping! What with losing Pixar in 2006 and the imminent departure of Miramax seemingly any day now, Disney is scrambling to find...
