Welcome to the Jungle
June 17, 2004
When a film changes titles from its production, to its release, you don’t think too much about it. Working titles are common, it happens. However, when a film changes title from its American release to its UK release, that’s a bad sign. It means the...
Smiles of a Summer Night
May 25, 2004
Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman is primarily known for making arty, philosophical movies like The Seventh Seal (1958) or character-driven melodramas like Scenes from a Marriage (1973). This makes Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) something of a curious...
The Perfect Score
May 21, 2004
Billed as “The Breakfast Club meets Ocean’s Eleven,” The Perfect Score (2004) isn’t as good or as memorable as either one of these movies. It is a fairly standard comedy that exposes the hypocrisy of the SAT testing system and how it affects kids...
Starsky & Hutch
March 11, 2004
Let’s be honest, most cinematic remakes of classic TV shows are awful. They either barely resemble the original (like the Claire Danes version of The Mod Squad) or turn it into kitsch parody (like The Flintstones). More often than not the contemporary...
Along Came Polly
March 1, 2004
Risk-assessor Ben Stiller falls for unpredictable Jennifer Aniston in this weak romantic comedy. To the casual DVD renter (and yes, there are such people, believe it or not) looking at the back cover of Along Came Polly they would be forgiven for thinking,...
South Park: Season 4
February 21, 2004
The boys from South Park are back for another taboo smashing season (their fourth) that has the kids entering the fourth grade and welcoming a new addition to their group—Timmy, a strange, physically handicapped boy. As always, no sacred cows are spared...
Love Object
February 18, 2004
‘Kenneth was in love from the minute he took Nikki out of her box. Anatomically correct, complete with instructions and 100% lifelike silicone, she was exactly as he had ordered. With his newfound love, Kenneth’s once desolate and lonely life...
Une femme est une femme (A Woman is a Woman)
January 1, 2004
Jean-Luc Godard’s Une femme est une femme (1961) is a playful battle of the sexes. It pushes the musical genre far out into exciting new directions that still seem ahead of its time. Angela (Karina) is an exotic dancer who wants to have a child with...
The Simpsons Gone Wild
December 22, 2003
Fox continue to knock out the odd volumes of the Simpsons, when what we truly want is each season in box set format. Why do they do this? Money of course; and the incredulous amount of time between box sets ensures that fans of the show will end up buying...
Little Murders
December 21, 2003
A woman named Patsy (Rodd) awakes one day to hear a commotion outside her apartment building. She exits the building and stops a gang of thugs from beating a man named Alfred (Gould). He then walks away only for the miscreants to turn on the poor woman....
