Thunderbirds
May 21, 2005
Making a film based upon a successful television show from the sixties isn’t a new concept as we have already had ‘The Avengers’ ‘Lost in Space’ and ‘Charlie’s Angels’, but the most eagerly anticipated big screen update is that based upon...
Mission Without Permission
May 20, 2005
When dad gets sick it’s up to Maddy and her clever friends to come up with the money for his operation and it just so happens mom is in charge at the new bank… Mission Without Permission (also known as Catch That Kid) tries to do the kiddie...
Wildboyz: Season 1
May 18, 2005
Imagine The Crocodile Hunter mixed with the antics of Jackass and you have a pretty good idea of what Wildboyz is all about. After the demise of Jackass, Steve-O and Chris Pontius did some soul-searching and decided to become “research scientists.”...
Viva La Bam: Season 1
May 4, 2005
No matter how bad your parents thought you were as a kid, they should thank their lucky stars that they aren’t Phil and April Margera. Professional skateboarder and all-around pain in the ass, Bam Margera is the Dennis the Menace for the new millennium....
Tanner ’88
May 1, 2005
Just in time for the November U.S. elections, the good folks at Criterion have released Robert Altman’s little-seen (yet influential) Tanner ’88 (1988), an eleven-episode mini-series that he created with Gary Trudeau (of Doonesbury fame). Done for...
Black Books: Season 3
April 30, 2005
Channel 4 is home to many of the greatest comedies on British terrestrial television, and although most are American, one British made funny-fest shines above all others. After the sad demise of ‘Father Ted’ Channel 4’s comeback was ‘Black Books’....
Garden State
April 29, 2005
Zach Braff’s directorial debut, Garden State (2004), is the essence of an independent film. Made for a paltry (by Hollywood standards) $2.5 million, it has gone on to gross over ten times its budget and, more importantly, become the defining film for...
Coffee and Cigarettes
April 18, 2005
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) is a collection of short films that filmmaker Jim Jarmusch has been making on and off for almost 20 years. Shot in between his feature films, these vignettes are a celebration of, well, coffee and cigarettes. Each story features...
Ed Wood
April 2, 2005
Ed Wood (1994) is a gloriously atmospheric, black and white love letter to cinema. Tim Burton understands that for the devoted cineaste, the best moments in life have often been spent in a darkened movie theatre being enveloped by a film and becoming...
Clerks: 10th Anniversary Edition
March 22, 2005
It’s hard to believe that the little independent film-that-could, Clerks (1994), is ten years old. Inspired by the low-budget success of Slacker (1990), Kevin Smith wrote, directed and starred in his ode to working a dead-end job as a cash-register...
